September 2008
LUMBERG GROUP Optimizes Concurrent Engineering with PTC®
CoCreate®
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PTC, The
Product Development Company®, today announced that German-based
Lumberg Group, has optimized its product
development process with CoCreate, PTC’s explicit modeling and data
management software that provides companies with a lightweight and flexible
approach to designing products. Lumberg uses CoCreate Modeling™ and CoCreate
Model Manager™ for parallel development of its customized products and
manufacturing technology. Lumberg is supported by PTC partner ASCAD for all
CAD/PDM engineering services. Lumberg Group operates numerous development and manufacturing locations in Europe, America and Asia, as well as a worldwide sales network for its individual and flexible customer solutions. Connector systems and components comprise the core of its wide array of products for the automotive, photovoltaic, telecommunication and appliance industries. |
To meet the extremely short development cycles typical in these industries today, Lumberg required a development solution that supported parallel design of its products and manufacturing technology. As soon as the first new product concept is realized in 3D, development of the production technology begins. Using CoCreate provides the design team with flexibility to respond to unforeseen changes up until the last minute of the design process.
“The flexible explicit modeling approach in PTC CoCreate Modeling and the product data management capabilities of CoCreate Model Manager allow us to exploit the benefits of concurrent engineering,” said Stefan Joergens, head of R&D at Lumberg. “The PTC CoCreate product family is critical to our success because we have to meet very short development cycles for our customized projects. With our modification-intense and time-critical unique projects, this software offers design flexibility that can’t be beat.”
“We are pleased that the Lumberg Group uses the advantages of the explicit modeling approach and data management in PTC CoCreate to optimize its time-critical processes for concurrent engineering,” said Martin Nuemueller, director, product management, PTC. “The Lumberg Group's success further supports the importance of explicit modeling for customized, fast-paced product development.”
November 2007
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MANITOU Navigates Product Development Terrain
with CoCreate Suite Forklift-truck manufacturer picks up design flexibility, easy-to-use
applications by standardization on CoCreate Modeling. |
MANITOU relies on Modeling's Explicit Modeling based approach to 3D product development to help engineers flexibly change models as new insight and innovative ideas arise.
"We use the Explicit Modeling based approach to streamline our collaboration with development partners," said Christian Herrmann, MANITOU's IT Director. "For example, our team imports partner's CAD models for diesel engines right into CoCreate Modeling, where we can easily fit fixture geometry to our current requirements."
MANITOU has also streamlined development with CoCreate's online collaboration software. MANITOU saves with CoCreate OneSpace.net as its teams collaborate on projects with external partners (suppliers, subcontractors). OneSpace.net cuts business travel and results in fewer communication mishaps.
MANITOU recently replaced its highly customized PDM environment with CoCreate Model Manager. This standard solution integrates tightly with CoCreate Modeling and offers impressive performance when working with large assemblies.
"CoCreate Model Manager is easy to implement and easy to use," said Herrmann. "So much so, that our engineering departments at MANITOU will adopt it. CoCreate Model Manager will be deployed in France this year."
MANITOU plans to further streamline product development and lifecycle management by integrating CoCreate Model Manager into its ERP system. That way, the company can exchange technical data when transitioning from development to manufacturing.
"Our aim was to extend the use/usage of our CAD-PLM system, which is considered powerful and flexible by our end users," said Herrmann. "And we needed a product development environment that can easily be integrated via standard connections into our future ERP system. CoCreate's PLM solution combines all these things."
February 2004
European satellite technology firm Alcatel Space has implemented 1500 seats of CoCreate's product data management system
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CoCreate's Model Manager now serves as
the basis of Alcatel Space's in-house engineering and technical
information system. |
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Alcatel Space was originally a supplier to the satellite industry specialising
in electronics and payload optimisation, but today develops complete satellite
systems.
The Alcatel Space IT Systems department has tripled in size as the company faces
administrative challenges due to working in multiple locations, new areas of
activity and heterogeneous PDM systems.
In light of these new challenges and demands on productivity, Alcatel Space
elected to standardise its information system.
Because of its proven high level of performance and adaptability to the
processes at the Toulouse site, Model Manager was also selected for
implementation at the Cannes and Valence sites.
Implementation was completed in a single weekend so that there was no
interruption in design work or production.
April 2002
Leading race team selects OneSpace Designer
CoCreate
Software, Inc. announced that Perkins Engineering, which designs and manufactures
race cars for Castrol Perkins Racing in Australia, has standardized on
CoCreate Software’s OneSpace Designer solid modeling CAD solution.
Perkins Engineering was established in 1970 and has grown to become one of Australia’s leading suppliers of components to suit Holden V8 Supercars. The team’s record of producing strong reliable cars is unrivalled.
“Reducing production lead-time, a hallmark of Perkins Engineering, is always a primary goal,” said Larry Perkins, Director of Perkins Engineering. “We can now realize product innovations in lead times only dreamed of prior to commissioning OneSpace Designer. It has helped us achieve an unrivalled record of producing fast, reliable vehicles for V8 Supercar racing.”
CoCreate’s OneSpace Designer is a 3D-based solution for product development,
tailored specifically to the needs of mechanical and electromechanical
engineers. Unlike other solid modelers, it is based on a Dynamic
Modeling paradigm. It frees designers from working within predetermined
design constraints, allowing them to explore more options -- without having
to start over.
July 2000
WorkManager is selected from UK Ministry of defence for the radar project
CoCreate’s
distributed product-information and process-management solution WorkManager
has been selected as the information-management system for the UK’s Ministry
of Defence Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) Project. The system will be
linked to an existing U.S. system and will provide a Web-based workflow
document-management system, integrating Raytheon, its subcontractors and
the UK Ministry of Defence. The system uses WorkManager’s Web Access Server,
Distributed File Server and Global DataManager.
To enable the partial replication of metadata and files between the UK and the United States, WorkManager’s Global DataManager and Distributed File Servers are being employed.
The £800 million (US $ 1.3 billion) airborne radar surveillance program provides day/night and all-weather imagery of the ground over a large area. The imagery can be analyzed on board the aircraft and passed in near real-time to ground stations and other military systems.
Raytheon's winning proposal combines proven radar technology with a defined upgrade path, the best aircraft in the Bombardier Aerospace Global Express, and the ground station expertise of Motorola, providing the British Armed Forces with the most technologically advanced system in the world.
"Due to the size of the ASTOR contract, we needed a global information
management system that could control and share a large number of documents
among the contractors and publish the documents online to the customer,"
said Mike Payne, systems development manager for Raytheon Systems Limited.
"After evaluating other leading products, we chose WorkManager because
it met our needs and could be implemented quickly."
March 2000
OneSpace Designer sets standards for Panasonic copiers, fax machines and printers
OneSpace
Designer 3-D modeling solution has been fully deployed at Tokyo-based Matsushita
Graphic Communication Systems (MGCS), a subsidiary of the Matsuhita Electric
Industrial Group, in its product-development process for designing world-famous
Panasonic brand copiers, fax machines and color printers.
The Office Equipment Division, which makes Panasonic high-performance
business copiers and color printers, was able to implement OneSpace Designer
and take full advantage of its 3-D modeling processes in just four months.
"Our former 3-D CAD software was very complicated, so only some
of our designers used it, and we couldn’t realize the full benefit of its
capabilities," said Takeshi Tanaka, senior coordinator for MGCS’s Information
Systems Department. "After only two days of OneSpace Designer demonstrations
and evaluation, I was fully convinced that OneSpace Designer was the right
choice for us"
According to MGCS, a key reason for choosing OneSpace Designer was its
dynamic modeling environment, which allows design revisions that are not
constrained by previous design assumptions. "OneSpace Designer’s dynamic modeling
technology allows the easy modification of 3-D models. This feature is
very practical and useful for our design work," said Tanaka.
December 1999
More than 2000 seats of WorkManager are in use at Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics from Korea is making a richer life for people
around the world by developing digital, multimedia products and home appliances
that are friendly to both people and the environment.
Samsung Electronics products are popular worldwide for their quality
and reliability. The company holds the front positions in the world for
TVs, color monitors, videos, notebook PCs, hard-discs, printers, faxes,
phones, mobile-phones, air-conditioners, microwave-ovens, refrigerators,
vacuum-cleaners, washing-machines, defense-systems, robots, controllers
for the factory automation, DRAMs, SRAMs, and TFT-LCDs and many others.
Samsung currently has more than 2000 WorkManager seats of CoCreate
and is managing 1.417.000 (1.4 million) masterparts in the WorkManager
database.
By using WorkManager to centralize parts definition across all business
units worldwide, 300.000 parts are eliminated from the Samsung's corporate
parts database of 650.000 parts.
To develop a new product range is reduced from 840 man/month to
225 man/month.
The development of the WorkManager PDM have enforced all new standards
and processes, thus allowing en Enterprise wide Business Process Re-engineering.
November 1999
Canon selects OneSpace Designer as standard 3D solution for business machine development
Tokyo based Canon Inc. has made a strategic decision
to standardize on CoCreate’s 3-D solid modeling solution, OneSpace
Designer,
for Canon’s office machine products.
According to Canon, OneSpace Designer will be used for
the design of its office machine products, which account for 1,300
billion yen in revenue for Canon. This relationship will build on the more
than 200 seats of OneSpace Designer that Canon currently has installed
After evaluating several different 3-D systems, Canon
said it chose OneSpace Designer because of its ease of use, dynamic modeling
approach.
Oktober 1999
Liebherr replaces existing history based system with OneSpace Designer
Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbH, a leading Germany
based manufacturer of mobile cranes, has made a strategic decision to standardize
on CoCreate’s OneSpace Designer 3-D design solution. Under the terms of the
contract, CoCreate supplied 34 seats of OneSpace Designer including various
modules and consulting to Liebherr this year. For the year 2000, 46 more
seats of OneSpace Designer are planned, including additional modules.
According to Liebherr, the company subjected OneSpace
Designer
to a series of intensive tests on several design projects last year, following
a two-year period in which it used another 3D CAD system. A very flexible
system was required, as Liebherr often had to cope with model modifications
that were not predictable at concept stage. The CoCreate software passed
with flying colors.
OneSpace Designer’s flexible, open approach offered many
benefits over history-based 3-D models from other systems.
July 1999
Schindler is using OneSpace Designer for the development of Schindler’s revolutionary new elevator model Smart MRL 001
Schindler S.A. is the world’s leading producer of escalators
and the world’s second largest manufacturer of elevators with more
than 100 national companies and over 1,000 local branches worldwide.
Every day, more than 500 million people travel using Schindler-manufactured
installations.
OneSpace Designer was used to design a new compact
gear specifically for this elevator model, as well as a new overspeed governor
that will also be used in other Schindler products. The gear was developed
from scratch in only nine months, helping to bring the new elevator to
market in record time.
The design installation at Zaragoza includes more
than 40 seats of OneSpace Designer and CoCreate’s ME10 design, drafting and
documentation solution.
All over the world Schindler has more than 200 seats
of different CoCreate products.
Januar 1999
Festo once again purchased several CoCreate seats
Festo, a leading German based manufacturer of
pneumatic components and systems, and also hand hold power tools,
has placed an additional order for 60 more seats of
OneSpace Designer 3-D software.
Festo has been a CoCreate customer for approximately
five years and has successfully installed and used, across several
divisions worldwide, more than 100 seats of OneSpace Designer; 260 seats
of CoCreate’s ME10 2D drafting solution; and 600 seats of
WorkManager, CoCreate’s product data management solution.
According to Festo, two of its key corporate objectives
are to continually improve its processes, and to deliver superior and more
innovative products to the marketplace.
November 1998
Proton will use WorkManager as the enterprise wide PDM solution
Proton, a leading Malaysian car manufacturer,
has selected the WorkManager product data management (PDM) solution
as an enterprise wide PDM system to support all current and future product
development work.
The WorkManager implementation forms part
of Proton’s continuing drive to reduce time to market for its new models.
WorkManager will run on HP-UX alongside a
wide range of client hardware, including Windows NT(R), SGI and IBM,
with 150 users initially.
October 1998
Shell has selected
WorkManager as PDM system for Oil and Gas exploration
Shell UK Exploration and Production (Shell Expro) division is responsible for Shell's all offshore oil and gas activities in the North Sea. After the fire disaster at the Piper Alpha oil platform, the UK Department of Energy required that the safety measures need to be tightened.
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Shell is required to show that the documents being used onshore and offshore are maintained and controlled and that the most up-to-date versions are available. Also to improve the profitability the production costs have to be reduced. An efficient document management system would enable Shell to reduce the offshore staff. After a long selection period Shell has decided for CoCreate's PDM solution WorkManager. Price and Performance of WorkManager was better then Sherpa, Intergraph, Cimage and IBM's PDM solutions. The final stage will cover around 100 Users at 5 different systems. |
October 1998
CoCreate Software outranks competition in
MCAD and PDM industry (Customer satisfaction surveys)
CoCreate Software Inc, provides better quality mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) and product-data management
(PDM) products than its competitors, according to two recent user surveys
covering customer satisfaction.
In the first survey, commissioned by the CADCircle in Munich, Germany, and carried out by an independent Swiss institute, IMP (Institute of
Management Practices AG, Winterthur), users rated CoCreate's ME10 and OneSpace
Designer higher, in terms of satisfaction, than any other competitive
products. Between 48 percent and 55 percent of users were "very satisfied"
with CoCreate software, with only 1 percent or less being "unsatisfied."
In contrast, only 18 to 36 percent of users claimed to be "very satisfied"
with the other products surveyed, with up to 10 percent expressing
dissatisfaction.
In a second survey, carried out by U.S.-based technical-consulting and market-research company CIMdata, users ranked CoCreate's WorkManager higher than they did all other products combined in seven out of nine categories related to customer satisfaction. A total of 15 products was included in
the survey. CoCreate's WorkManager product data management (PDM) solution
was rated higher than the other 14 products combined in terms of overall opinion, ease-of-use, user interface, system performance, reliability, maintainability and documentation.
"These surveys demonstrate that CoCreate's MCAD and PDM software is leading the way in customer satisfaction," said Tilman F. Schad, president of CoCreate. "We have established global customer advisory councils in
order to form close working relationships with our customers. This lets us share expertise, receive direct feedback and align product offerings with their needs."
CoCreate Software is used from Turkey's military automotive producer OTOKAR
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Several seats of CoCreate OneSpace
Designer software is used for the design and manufacturing of OTOKAR's Cobra
products. Being one of the major automotive manufacturers in Turkey, OTOKAR has been providing solutions to its customers both in commercial and military range since 1963. Cobra has been developed by OTOKAR's research and development team to provide the best solution for the need of the armed forced for wheeled armored vehicles. Cobra attracts interest with its superior maneuvering capability and its high level of ballistic protection as well as its feature of adjustability of the same platform for diverse functions. It provides great facilities in maintenance and service as it is designed on the same framework and infrastructure and it can be manufactured in many models and types. The fact that the infrastructure remains the same even in diverse Cobras manufactured for different realms, which, in turn, saves from maintenance and repair works and spare parts, makes Cobra an armored vehicle preferred by many armies. |
