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Achieving Greater Design Reuse

Bill Gilchrist May 1, 2013

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What is Design Reuse?

• Augment the Product Design Process to develop the right product in the least amount of time

• Typically it begins with accessing previous CAD models to create the next New Design

• Starting point could begin with a geometric design, specific item characteristics, or some other unique criteria

• Leveraging Design Knowledge from one design to be applied to another

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Why Design Reuse?

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What are the Challenges?

• Access to relevant information that is in context of your Design Objective

• To Much or Not Enough Information to Rely On• Leveraging the design information or related information• Frustration from User Community that Do Not have access the relevant

information

• Developing a strategy for design reuse in the product development process

• What, When, Why, Why and How should you Reuse an existing Design

• Utilizing the Existing Designs to satisfy your objectives• Engineering - Specs, Functional Requirements, Test Reports, ECOs, BOMs …• Business - Customer Feedback, Financial Information, Reduce Development

time …

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Demonstration will include…

• Discover Innovator from NorthRidge• Google-like search within Aras Innovator• Enterprise Search with data sources beyond Aras Innovator• Improving information accessibility and visibility

• Aras Innovator• Leveraging the Data Model for capturing Design Knowledge

• SolidWorks Connector for Aras from SofTech• Copy, Insert and Replace operations to improve Design Reuse• Store Document and Store BOM operations to be utilized in your Product

Development

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Demo…

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Questions ?Bill Gilchrist

bgilchrist@softech.com