Understanding Critical Aspects of Plastic Part Design and Manufacturing

Understanding Critical Aspects of Plastic Part Design and Manufacturing

Plastic parts are essential components of most of the industries starting from Automotive to hi-tech electronics and household products from toys to kitchen appliances. Plastic is possibly the most versatile and economical material used in many applications. Developing plastic products in the shortest possible time at the right cost and quality gives organizations a definitive edge over their competitors. Therefore, manufacturers across the globe pay special attention to the time spent in bringing a new product/variant to the market. Optimizing this process right from the design stage has a domino effect on the entire lifecycle. Design decisions taken early in the cycle affect not only the cost of the product but also contribute to its quality and life-span.

However it is important to understand the critical design parameters while designing plastic components –

 Wall thickness

 Undercuts

 Ribs

 Bosses

 Drafts

 Holes

 Radii and many more critical areas

Join us for a webinar, to understand the in-depth design aspects of plastic products.

Speakers:

Paul A. Tres, founder - Engineering Training Services, bestselling author and an international speaker on plastic product development and design having years of experience in design, marketing, selling and manufacture of plastic components and system. Mr. Tres offers a broad perspective of the plastic industry in general and to the plastic marketing, manufacturing, material selection, and part design in special. He will explain the best design practices in detail with examples and case studies.

Nikhil Dalvi, Strategic Account Manager, Geometric, who will demonstrate the advance CAD based technology to ensure producible injection molding design. You will also understand how this advanced technology can simplify life of a design and manufacturing engineer and help to reduce downstream manufacturing problems and improve productivity.

So join us and take advantage of this one-of-kind opportunity to hear, interact and understand how progressive companies are leveraging these best plastic design practices to their advantage.

20 Oct, 2011 08:00 AM PST/PDT i.e 10:00 AM CST/CDT i.e  11:30 AM EST/EDT i.e 17:30 PM CET (EU)

Registration link : https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/413874200

Geometric Receives Frost & Sullivan’s 2011 Global Enabling Technology Award for DFMPro

DFMPro recognized for technological innovation in ‘design for manufacturing’ validation Mumbai, India, August 23, 2011: Geometric Limited (BSE: 532312, NSE: GEOMETRIC), a leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Global Engineering Services, and Offshore Product Development (OPD) solutions and technologies, today announced that it has received the prestigious 2011 Global Enabling Technology Award for Computer Aided Design (CAD) from the leading independent research consultancy, Frost & Sullivan. This award was conferred on Geometric’s DFMPro, a CAD integrated product, for its ability to facilitate upstream design validation for manufacturability, by providing an automated design review process and employing a standard operating procedure for knowledge capture and reuse.

“The advent of advanced authoring and design tools allows designer engineers to explore effective and efficient design alternatives. However, design engineers have not been able to maximise this potential due to the challenges in translating these designs into manufacture-able products. A product like DFMPro, which validates the manufacturability of designs right at the design stage, helps address this issue, and eliminates manufacturability concerns of any design”, said Muthukumar Viswanathan, Practice Director, Frost & Sullivan.

Geometric’s design for manufacturability solution was evaluated based on its ability to enhance current products, its potential for market acceptance, delivery of technology to market, and its end-user transition and recognition.

On receiving the award, Mr. Manu Parpia, MD & CEO, Geometric said, “Geometric has been developing products in the geometry domain for over two decades. We launched DFMPro in 2008 to help manufacturing companies reduce costs by identifying designs that are difficult, expensive or impossible to manufacture. We continue to improve the product over the years by covering more processes, manufacturability rules and checks. Frost & Sullivan’s award is a recognition of the contribution Geometric can make to help manufacturing companies compete”.

DFMPro is currently available for machining (drilling, prismatic milling, and lathe machining/ turning), sheet metal fabrication, injection molding, and assembly. Viswanathan added, “The seamless integration of DFMPro with leading CAD platforms makes it easy to use. This automation of a traditionally manual process helps reduce design iterations, cost of design and time-to-market. In most cases, DFMPro has been known to reduce time by more than 50 percent.”

DFMPro has a proven track record with customers in various industries. One such company is Motorola Solutions Inc. The company’s Director of Mechanical Engineering Services, Mr. Vikram Bhargava said, “Congratulations to the DFMPro team for winning this accolade. We have been using DFMPro for our design validations and are impressed by its intuitiveness, seamless integration within our CAD platform and the ability to customize design rules. DFMPro has helped us improve design and reduce downstream issues.”

Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.

For online demo and to understand the product in detail, please visit www.dfmpro.com.

About Frost & Sullivan:
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation and leadership. The company's Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO's Growth Team with disciplined research and best-practice models to drive the generation, evaluation and implementation of powerful growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan leverages 50 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 40 offices on six continents.

About Geometric:
Geometric is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies. Its portfolio of Global Engineering services and Digital Technology solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle. Headquartered in Mumbai, India, Geometric was incorporated in 1994 and is listed on the Bombay and National Stock Exchanges. The company recorded consolidated revenues of Rupees 6.21 billion (US Dollars 136.47 million) for the year ended March 2011. It employs over 3900 people across 10 global delivery locations in the US, Romania, India, and China. Geometric was assessed as CMMI 1.1 Level 5 for its software services and is ISO 9001:2008 certified for engineering operations. The company’s operations are also ISO 27001:2005 certified.

Geometric’s Geometry Technology Solutions (GTS) business unit develops cutting-edge point productivity solutions that enhance design and improve manufacturing operations. The end-user products from Geometric include CAMWorks®, eDrawings® Publisher, DFMPro, GeomCaliper® and 3DPaintBrush™. The key technologies from Geometric are NestLib®, Feature Recognition (FR), GeomDiff and 3DSearchIT®. Geometric licenses these technologies to OEM partners and also designs and implements customized process solutions using these technologies for industrial customers. For further details about Geometric’s GTS business unit, please visit www.geometricglobal.com/products
or call +1.480.222.2255

DFMPro at PlanetPTC Live 2011, Las Vegas

 

Our Customer - Paul Lalinde from Motorola

Motorola Presentation on DFMPro

Motorola Presentation on DFMPro

Live Demo

DFMPro 3.0 to be showcased at PlanetPTC Live 2011

Geometric to showcase DFMPro 3.0 at PlanetPTC Live 2011

See live demonstrations of new additions to the product  -- multiple, quick and precise clearance checks at the click of a button, intuitive hole alignment checks and a lot more.

Visit Booth #510, at PlanetPTC Live, from 12-15 June, 2011 at the Caesars Palace Las Vegas Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA


Read more here --
http://www.geometricglobal.com/images/file/Geometric_Media_Release_DFMPro_PTCPlanet_May_17_2011.pdf

Motorola Solutions to present its experience with DFMPro at PlanetPTC Live 2011

Mr. Paul Lalinde from Motorola Solutions will be presenting on the topic of ‘Automating
Manufacturability checks with DFMPro’ during the partner track session at 11:00 AM on June 14, 2011 in the Octavius 20 room. Mr. Lalinde will share his experiences on the various challenges faced by Motorola Solutions in the area of DFM, the measures he took to address some of those problems, and how DFMPro helped automate the process.

Read more at http://www.geometricglobal.com/images/file/Geometric_Media_Release_DFMPro_PTCPlanet_May_17_2011.pdf

Medical Equipment - Accelerate design to manufacture process & reduce product cost Part2

Medical Equipment Accelerate design to manufacture process & reduce product cost

In today’s market environment, cost & cycle time reduction are constant endeavors. One of the critical phases which has significant impact on cost & cycle time is design to manufacture phase. This phase is inherently iterative as it tries to achieve multi objective optimization and involves collaboration with cross functional stake holders (for e.g. Manufacturing Engineering). These iterative cycles get exponentially costly as they go closer to final production phase. Geometric has developed a unique Design For Manufacturability (DFM) solution which helps organization reduce design iterations, improve organization productivity & collaboration. It is a tool which provides upfront verification of parts for Manufacturability during design stage. It also helps designers make product cost decision by identifying areas of design that are difficult, expensive or impossible to manufacture.  DFMPro benefits: ·         Improve design productivity ·         Ensure Assured quality ·         Reduce cost ·         Capture knowledge ·         Collaborate design Join us for a live and interactive webinar to discover how you can reduce time and cost by addressing manufacturability problems right at design stage.

Register Here Webinar Topic : Accelerate Design to manufacture process & Reduce product cost Date : Wednesday, 4th May 2011 Time : 8:00 am (PST), 10:00 am (CST), 11:00 am (EST) Speakers : Rahul Rajadhyaksha  (Product Manager, DFMPro, Geometric) Vivek Khare (Director Business Operations, Geometric)   You can also click on following link to register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/738784193 Know anyone else who would be interested in this webinar? Attendance is free so simply forward this message on to them. About  Geometric  Geometric  (www.geometricglobal.com)  is  a  specialist  in  the  domain  of  engineering  solutions,  services  and  technologies.  Its  portfolio  of  Global  Engineering  services  and  Digital  Technology  solutions  for  Product  Lifecycle  Management  (PLM)  enables  companies  to  formulate,  implement,  and  execute  global  engineering  and  manufacturing  strategies  aimed  at  achieving  greater  efficiencies  in  the  product  realization lifecycle.   The  copyright/  trademarks  of  all  products  referenced  herein  are  held  by  their  respective  companies.

Reducing Design to manufacturing iterations

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Check out his 2 min video.

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DFMPro @ SWW 2011

Thank you for visiting DFMPro booth at SolidWorks World 2011.

DFMPro - The new Castings Module!

DFMPro Castings Module in SolidWorks ( Sneak Peek )

Full featured demo will be avalable soon!

New Rules!

1) Wall thickness variation
2) Minimum Draft Angle
3) Fillet Radius
4) Hole Distance to part edge
5) Surace finish
6) Mold wall thickness .... and many more!

Geometric to unveil DFMPro for Solidworks with new features during Solidworks world 2011

DFMPro for SolidWorks focuses on improving ease of DFM(Design for Manufacturing) analysis and reporting by providing the following new functions: Casting module with built-in rules including thickness checks, draft angle checks and tolerance checks. These easy-to-configure and easy-to-use checks will help designers quickly check and refine their designs to avoid possible problems during casting. The SolidWorks version of DFMPro now supports the Microsoft Excel based DFM analysis report
The new casting module broadens the scope of out-of-the-box manufacturing checks provided by DFMPro. The Excel-based reports combined with eDrawings reports facilitate easy collaboration, communication and tracking of DFM issues to closure. For more information on DFMPro, please visit 
http://dfmpro.com

DFMPro version 2.3 to be showcased during IMTEX 2011, Bangalore(Bengaluru), India

Geometric will showcase DFMPro version 2.3 at the Bangalore International Exhibition Center in Bangalore, India.

DFMPro version 2.3 focuses on improving the ease of DFM review comments to closure with support for formed features and inclusion of Microsoft Excel based DFM analysis reports. A new grouping functionality for wall thickness related rules has been added in the Injection Molding module that allows users to easily segregate results into groups based on the thickness ranges.CAD users will be able to quickly verify their designs within Pro/ENGINEER® and SolidWorks®,thus, reducing cost and time-to-market, while also improving the quality of manufactured parts.DFMPro 2.3 also facilitates collaborative design review process by generating comprehensive 3D reports in eDrawings® format. This capability is very useful for suppliers who can quickly generate eDrawings reports and share it with the OEM for their review, comments and acceptance.