Manufacturers spend millions of dollars every year firefighting product quality issues and struggling with improper fit, scrap, and rework. A large percentage of build problems and engineering changes are caused by variation and can be avoided by using integrated validation tools. Proactive and interactive validation in NX allows the design process to move forward rather than backtracking to correct errors. Corporate standards and quality initiatives can be maintained through the implementation and assurance of automated validation technology.
NX uniquely addresses CAD file, geometry, assembly, and drawing data quality with NX Check-Mate, an innovative validation application that checks CAD files and models for adherence to company, industry, or customer standards. NX Check-Mate includes tools for creating knowledge-based rules and profiles representing standards for file organization, geometric data types, CAD application settings, and other model and drawing criteria. Management-style reporting provides engineering data quality metrics that support company-wide quality and continuous improvement initiatives. With NX Check-Mate, designers can automatically ensure that CAD data adheres to company, customer, or industry standards. The software enables capture of standards in knowledge-based rules and profiles that automate checks for file organization, geometry, assemblies, and drawing data, and includes reporting tools that assist in continuous improvement initiatives. NX Check-Mate’s automated checking replaces error-prone manual checking processes to reduce rework and inconsistencies in data that can cause manufacturing and production delays.
NX Quick Check provides simple interactive validation as part of the CAD design process. Companies can use NX Quick Check to monitor mass, weight, critical dimensions and other parameters in part and assembly models, employing automated checks that repeat with each model update. NX Quick Check provides a simple way to capture engineering expertise in customized checks that warn and guide users with clear messages whenever the checking criteria are not met. With persistent monitoring of key design parameters, NX Quick Check helps ensure product quality by detecting errors immediately. Also, designers can capture and monitor key parameters such as mass, critical dimension values, and other design criteria as features that automatically and continuously monitor the criteria as the design develops, warning designers in real time when changes result in violation of the design rules. Thus, this powerful module helps minimize errors, engineering change orders, warranty repairs, and product recalls.
