Companies that pursue the ability to better capture, create and re-use knowledge realize significant economic benefits and competitive advantage, including increased revenues and reduced costs. Top-performing companies approach re-use strategically, considering how re-usable knowledge can be leveraged throughout the product lifecycle.

NX includes a wealth of tools and capabilities to support re-use strategies. These enable you to:

• Capture a broad range of reusable design knowledge efficiently
• Manage and control reusable knowledge for single and global sites
• Find reusable knowledge quickly at any point in the design process
• Apply re-usable knowledge into the design with automation workflows

NX re-use tools and capabilities include:

• NX Reuse Library provides a common repository for locating re-usable knowledge on an enterprise basis. A resource bar on the NX graphics screen places an entire repository of re-usable knowledge at your designers’ fingertips: re-usable designs; standard parts; design features; and product templates.
• Standard parts libraries comprise more than 100,000 standard parts including screws, washers, nuts, bearings, pins and other design items. These parts are available in ANSI, ISO, DIN JIT GB and GOST standards. Once installation is complete, users simply drag and drop any standard part from the Reuse Library directly into an assembly.
• NX integration with Teamcenter classification. Designers have instant access to the classification hierarchy from NX. Within an NX session, you can navigate in real time through a class hierarchy, view class attributes and issue queries to search for class members based on ranges of class attribute values. Once the class member is found, designers simply drag and drop the member into the NX session.
• NX integration with Geolus. Geolus Search is a high-performance 3D geometry search engine that enables you to instantly mine large heterogeneous data sources for similar or exact designs, and receive results within a fraction of a second.
• NX Product Template Studio enables you to repackage existing parametric models as templates you can re-use in subsequent designs. With Product Template Studio, you can create a custom user interface that simplifies interaction with the model – and you can include drawings, simulations, validation checking and more as part of a product template package. Product Template Studio is a powerful way to capture robust modular packages of product design in an easily re-usable form – without programming.