Digitize & Optimize Your Tooling Design Process
Production tooling and factory equipment are contributing more and more to increasing product manufacturing costs. Manufacturers are seeking ways to cut costs while maintaining a competitive advantage by reducing time-to-market and mass-customization of products. These business initiatives require a flexible manufacturing process that can manage smaller production runs, higher product mix, and frequent changes in product designs.
These business factors are driving leading manufacturers to digitize and optimize their tooling design process. They are seeking to maximize reuse of existing tooling components, reduce long lead-times for tooling, and collaborate more efficiently with tooling suppliers.
PTC's Product Development System (PDS) provides capabilities to model tooling including molds, mold bases, dies and associativity to the design model so that when the design changes, the tooling models automatically update. Similarly, fixtures can be easily designed associatively to the in-process state of a component and libraries of fixtures are easy to manage, enabling reuse. Easy-to-use wizards speed the user through creation of standard mold bases. Various types of analysis can be performed - including mold filling - to eliminate the need for expensive physical prototypes. If tooling is outsourced, PTC's PDS provides extensive collaboration capabilities to enable efficient sharing of work packages and help manage the outsourced project.
