Automate product development to leverage your company’s unique product and process knowledge.

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How do companies meet relentless pressures to deliver better products faster and at lower cost? Many have found a competitive advantage in their most valuable asset – knowledge. By capturing, managing, and sharing and re-using the collective experience and expertise of the organization, companies can apply knowledge to automate many of their product development processes.

Companies that leverage knowledge can significantly reduce lead times, improve quality and efficiency, and reduce design, engineering, and manufacturing costs. By automating tedious, repetitive, tasks, engineering lead times can be reduced from weeks to minutes. Designs can be validated with automated checking to ensure that products meet customer, company, and engineering requirements. And company best practices can be captured and re-used to ensure process efficiency and consistency.

Knowledge automation can increase your company’s capacity for innovation. In a recent study by AberdeenGroup, more than two-thirds of companies surveyed said that standardized, best-practice product development processes were the top revenue-enhancing innovation capability. More than half of the companies also cited the capture and re-use of knowledge and improved engineering efficiency and effectiveness. Knowledge driven automation directly addresses these keys to innovation.

NX facilitates knowledge automation

NX delivers a wide variety of tools to help companies capture, manage and re-use knowledge to automate product development. These range from “on-the-fly” capture tools that assist engineering users in embedding knowledge in models, to “record and playback” rapid automation, to customization and programming toolkits for application developers and next-generation process automation tools.

Solution Capabilities

• Interactive capture of engineering knowledge through expressions, formulas, and equations
• Interactive capture, storage, and re-use of intelligent part and feature families
• Automated rules-based validation checking
• Journaling for recording, editing, and playback of interactive sessions
• Associative assembly control structures that automate change propagation
• Open application programming interfaces for advanced automation applications that support multiple programming languages
• User interface customization tools
• Knowledge-based engineering tools for custom, knowledge-enabled applications
• Process automation tools that capture best practices in guided wizards
• Product template authoring tools that automate design from existing parametric models

Business Results

• Better product and process quality
• Standardized deployment of best practices
• Accelerated product development – 90% reduction in development time through automation
• Up to 80% reduced application development costs
• More innovation capacity by automating routine tasks