How quick can you get that job into production?
Obviously that question depends on what you design.
CAD vendors are always advancing the functionality of their products, finding new ways to aid the design process, introducing new products that claim to offer a faster way of working.
All good stuff if you design bespoke products; but what if your product conformed to a set of rules?
I came across this the other day: -
"Siemens made great play of the fact that Synchronous Technology was easy to use and could be edited by non CAD users. Well what is harder or faster than opening the DriveWorks dialogue and entering a few values into boxes to create your design?"
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Exactly...what could be faster?
Well there is one thing, what if the engineer does not enter the values in the first place. And that can be done by making those inputs available for the customer to enter, which of course is an option with DriveWorks Live or by having DriveWorks communicate with another source of input.
But there is another speed factor that is extremely important. The speed of setting up the rules for design automation.
Who is better placed in your organization to set up design rules for your product than the engineer that designs your products?
Is it worth the time and expense communicating these rules to a third party to translate into an application only a specialist can understand, or worse into code that needs maintaining?
