Best-in-Class, CAD Integrated DFM Software
On a global average, 30% of product development time is spent on rework – designing a product first, then optimizing it later to meet downstream manufacturing requirements. Consideration of manufacturability and assembly issues during the early design stage can shorten product development time, minimize costs, and ensure a smooth transition into production with minimal rework.
Incorporating years of functional expertise, DFMPro, a CAD-integrated DFM software, is engineered to help designers check their designs for manufacturability and assembly and correct these problems early in the design stage. It automates the iterative design process via a series of rules-based checks, identifying design areas that are difficult, expensive, or impossible to manufacture. It helps organizations improve engineering efficiency by minimizing rework and engineering changes (ECOs).
Validate Designs within Familiar CAD Environment — Automates the DFM/DFX Review Process
- Seamlessly integrated inside PTC CREO Parametric™, Siemens NX™ , SOLIDWORKS®, CATIA V5 and 3DEXPERIENCE
- DFMPro automates and formalizes the design review process
- Identifies and highlights problem areas on the CAD model
- Facilitates corrections on designs without leaving the familiar CAD environment, eliminating time-consuming file transfers using standard file formats such as IGES and STP
- Choose your deployment package from the most suitable tier
DFM issues identified and highlighted directly in the CAD environment — no file export needed
Enables Best Practice Knowledge Capture and Dissemination
- 1Out-of-box industry best practices available in form of DFM rules for core manufacturing processes like Machining, Injection Molding, Sheet Metal Fabrication, Casting, and Assembly
- 2Highly customizable DFM framework to capture in-house best practices, tribal knowledge and industry standards
- 3Facilitates continuous design improvements and knowledge retention of retiring workforce
DFM Software that Easily Integrates Into Existing Enterprise Infrastructure
- Integrates easily with PLM, ERP, and MES systems
- Automatically gets the required parameter information for existing or new DFM rules
- Scalable framework for capturing and disseminating manufacturing knowledge upstream
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Comprehensive 2D and 3D Reports to Improve Design Collaboration and Rule Manager
- Generates results in interactive 3D & 2D reports for easier analysis and interpretation
- Publishes reports in multiple formats — HTML, Excel and eDrawings® Publisher
- Improves design collaboration between departments, suppliers and vendors
- Select and configure organization specific guidelines as design rules
- Bring in standardization in Design Review Process
DFMPro Support Common Manufacturing Processes
Assembly
In order to achieve best practices in case of Design for Assembly & Dis assembly process, it is necessary to ensure sufficient space around the fastener to access the fastening tool for ease of fastening or extraction.
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Injection Molding
DFMPro design for manufacturing software helps to check for industry standard DFM practices for injection molding design, right inside the CAD environment.
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Die Casting
DFMPro for casting design assists design engineers in identifying features of a design which are difficult, expensive and impossible to manufacture, at the design stage itself.
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Sheet Metal
DFMPro provides pre-configured design guidelines DFM rules for design which helps to develop better quality parts at reduced cost.
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Machining
DFMPro is highly customizable framework and provides the flexibility to also configure the existing set of machining design guidelines or add new guidelines as per organization specific best practices.
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