With Dassault Systemes’s product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, Schefenacker has been able to reduce its 3D product geometry development hours by over 31%, reduce the cost impact of its design and engineering changes by 38%, and bring more programs to market with fewer resources.
Schefenacker’s goal was to reduce time spent on geometry creation and modification, to spend more time on enhancing the quality of its products through analysis tools and respond more quickly to customer requests. It also wanted better management of and access to product data.
Gary Sinelli, director of engineering at Schefenacker Vision Systems, said: We were confident that Catia, based upon its functionality, had the ability to help us become more efficient. Additionally, through the time saved in geometry creation and management, with Catia we were able to innovate and develop mirror components that are 18% lighter yet more robust than previous models.
With Catia, any change in a design specification is automatically updated in the related geometry and across all disciplines to ensure that anyone involved in the process is working with the most current data. Using Enovia SmarTeam for storage provides a native environment to access and manage Catia data, including standard features and component libraries within Schefenacker’s product development process.
