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Product Development Services |
In
today’s world millions of newer and
innovative products are released to the
market more frequently. Behind this are
the consistent product development efforts
by the manufacturers. There have always
been quests for finding out faster and better
processes of product development |
Express
Product Development (XPD)- the new initiative
is an attempt to mitigate the delays in
the current product development process
and to enhance the success possibilities
thereby ensuring better cost savings. |
XPD
is the process of expediting the product
development process by enabling enhanced
product visibility. Deploying appropriate
data capture and an analysis solution throughout
the product development process forms the
core of the XPD process. |
In the conceptual
design stage, XPD process advocates maximum
use of available product data and competitor
data in physical form. The physical form
of the data is converted into digital
form enabling analysis, bench marking,
and adoption etc during the conceptual
design stage.
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Capturing
the assembly and mating part information
in order to complete the detailed CAD design
also forms an important use of the XPD process.
Getting this information to the designers
screen can provide enormous benefits of
doing the design quicker and right at the
first time. |
Conventional
CAD model is done feature based and takes
time to complete. However XPD advocates
wherever possible to do a quick surfacing
based on the point cloud input. Quick Surfacing
capabilities are available in the latest
CAD tools and serve as a boon in cycle time
compression. In order to do a quick surfacing,
the scanned data should be denser. The quick
surface model would enable lot of post CAD
activities enabling cycle time compression. |
Generally
CAE process waits for the completion of
parametric model from CAD. XPD advocates
early start of the CAE process by starting
meshing directly with the scanned data or
quick surface. This enables CAE results
to be fed in the first release CAD model.
This means lesser CAD design iterations
thus saving cycle time. Quick CAE thus done
throws more insight of the product being
designed. It also provides sufficient time
to CAE to analyze more parts of the product
and also optimize their design. |
Finally
in the CAM stage, XPD advocates automating
the inspection process in order to take
fast and accurate decisions on the inspection
process. Computer Aided Inspection (CAI)
usage in product development, helps cycle
time reduction and avoids errors creeping
in production which may cause bigger problems
later. |
Thus,
XPD benefits touch all the areas of product
development namely CAD, CAE and CAM. When
followed systematically XPD can offer substantial
cost and time benefits and offer innovative
products to the market. |
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