Changing the way you work

You're probably already familiar with Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Assembly Extension (AAX). But did you know it helps turn top-down designs in Pro/ENGINEER into bottom-up assembly instructions for manufacturing? This means a lot for manufacturing engineers because part of your job is to write the detailed process sheets that are used to guide the shop-floor assembly of your company’s products.  

The Advanced Assembly Extension helps teams design and manage large, complex products by providing tools to support top-down design, handle alternate product configurations, and manage even the largest, most complex assemblies. It offers high-powered tools for design criteria management, top-down assembly design, large assembly management, Shrinkwrap, and process planning.    

Process Planning

You’re typically under pressure to do your job quickly, and to avoid making mistakes that might result in downstream ECOs. Adding to that pressure, you usually have to wait until the assembly model is finished by the designer before you can pull it apart to create your shop floor guides. And only when you’re finished can the actual work cells be organized. 

But process planning in AAX changes that. The reason: With AAX, you don’t have to wait for the assembly model to be completed before you can get started — you can have your own process model, and do your process planning in parallel with the assembly model design.

Faster prototypes mean fewer ECOs 

As a design engineer, you’ll be thankful for the process planning capabilities in AAX the minute a manufacturing engineer comes to you — while you’re still designing your assembly model — and points out that some part of your design may be very difficult or impossible to assemble. A fix at this stage will be easier than later on, and you’ll avoid the cost of a more expensive downstream repair.Overall this should give manufacturing engineers something to smile about. Process planning in AAX puts engineering teams one step closer to making the concept of design-for-manufacturing a reality

*Existing customers must be active on maintenance. 12 months maintenance with software is mandatory. Discount on maintenance not included. Offer ends 26th September 2008

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