The need for a competitive advantage is forcing companies to continually look to innovate and improve product and processes. Companies are confronting issues such as increasingly complex customer requirements along with a plethora of compliance regulations and requirements. As a result, companies like yours are asking:

• How do we improve and ensure product quality?
• How do we verify compliance with standards?
• How do we reduce prototypes and physical testing?
• How do we minimize or eliminate warranty cost?
• How do we measure product capabilities relative to requirements?
• How do we optimize designs for performance and manufacturability?

Validate Early. Validate Often. Validation throughout the Product Development Process.

NX uniquely addresses product and design validation, hence quality and compliance to standards. 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 allows designers to embed expertise directly into the model as knowledge features. Therefore, no matter where the CAD model is used, the vital information needed to secure its integrity is embedded within it. This unique capability tracks critical performance parameters and warns designers immediately when changes may violate the integrity of the model.

“Designed in” Quality.

Point solutions for design fall short in the effort to improve product quality. Quality must be “designed in” rather than “inspected in” to yield business benefits of lower cost and faster cycle times. Design teams need tools that help guide the design process toward products that optimally meet customer needs and fulfill performance and manufacturing requirements. Constant and consistent validation is important. NX provides:

• Automated Checking: ensures that critical functional requirements are monitored during design changes
• Real-time Validation Feedback: reduces training costs and raises user skill levels more quickly
• Standardized Supplier Validation: ensures smoother and lower-cost interactions
• Part release processes guarded by automated validation prevent expensive fixes during production

NX increases productivity by giving you a superior design product covering the entire Digital Development spectrum.

NX has a comprehensive set of tools for analysis and validation throughout the DPD process:

• Industrial Design: validate aesthetic properties that can influence a product’s attractiveness
• Design: checks can be performed including clash and clearance for assemblies and ongoing monitoring against product requirements
• Digital Simulation: tools for Structural, Thermal, and Motion analysis to review designs and check product performance
• Manufacturing: tools to validate tool paths and simulate machine tool motion
• Tooling: tools to ensure manufacturability, including moldability checking for plastic or cast parts and formability of stamped sheet metal parts

Simply put, NX allows you to be More Productive, More Innovative, and Faster to Market.