In this article you will learn what Creo Illustrate can do for you, and exactly what value it brings to the table.
You will also discover how Creo Illustrate addresses many issues faced by OEMs and engineering organizations.
In order to fully grasp what Creo Illustrate can do for you, you must understand the current market situation.
Regardless of your industry, the current market is complex.
Here are some of the reasons why.
Customer demands are continually increasing, and manufacturers have responded by delivering more complex products.
For example, customers demand configurable products. These same customers are also demanding higher product performance, increased uptime, and low total cost of ownership.
In addition to customer demands, we are also dealing with younger generations.
These young generations commonly resort to graphical illustrations or channels such as YouTube for guidance on how to do things. Because of these new tendencies, companies must adapt the ways they produce information according to the needs of the young generation.
Aside from the complexities of increased demands and young generations, organizations strive to capture global markets.
To capture global markets, organizations need to translate much of the documentation and product information that gets shipped.
Lastly, to remain competitive organizations must reduce time to market.
Altogether, this market situation creates significant pressure.
Organizations must make products that are more deliverable, improve customer experience, reduce cost, all while improving overall time to market.
How Creo Illustrate addresses the complex market situation.
1. Creo Illustrate helps deliver more configurable products
Leveraging Creo Illustrate and some other tools you can you can produce accurate configuration specific illustrations.
This provides product-specific product information to end user and consumers as well as highly skilled field technicians.
2. Creo Illustrate helps improve customer satisfaction
In order to improve customer satisfaction, you must enhance the overall customer experience.
By using Creo Illustrate you can create interactive graphical information that is easy to understand and interpret regardless of the native language.
3. Creo Illustrate helps lower costs
Lowering costs is an essential part of a competitive business.
Using Creo Illustrate you can leverage the CAD data you’ve already produced for downstream deliverables; work instructions, manuals, etc. This helps reduce redundant illustration and tracing effort, and keeps your technical communications up to date – event if documentation is created in parallel with the engineering and design process.
4. Creo Illustrate helps reduce time to market
Creo Illustrate helps streamline the process of creating illustrations and animations of your products. It eliminates the need to interrupt Engineering to gather screenshots of products and then laboriously trace images to create thin/thick illustrations. This allows you to accelerate the end-to-end creation, management, and publishing of dynamic technical information.
