Process design & validation for consumer goods

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Consumer products are becoming increasingly complex, necessitating cross-functional collaboration during product planning, design, development, and manufacturing processes. Connectivity is essential for consumers to enjoy their home appliances, with most of them connecting to smartphones, virtual assistants, or both. Manufacturers must also comply with applicable government regulations, safety, and energy efficiency standards while meeting consumer expectations. Additionally, consumer products require elaborate software-enabled systems that adapt to changing consumer behaviors.

Process design and validation are unified solutions that enable consumer goods manufacturers to define and virtually validate production processes to anticipate any potential issues.

Consumer products are becoming increasingly complex, necessitating cross-functional collaboration during product planning, design, development, and manufacturing processes. Connectivity is essential for consumers to enjoy their home appliances, with most of them connecting to smartphones, virtual assistants, or both. Manufacturers must also comply with applicable government regulations, safety, and energy efficiency standards while meeting consumer expectations. Additionally, consumer products require elaborate software-enabled systems that adapt to changing consumer behaviors.

Process design and validation are unified solutions that enable consumer goods manufacturers to define and virtually validate production processes to anticipate any potential issues.

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As consumer products evolve, it becomes increasingly evident that manufacturers must adapt to meet demands. Numerous organizations have already begun investing in planning tools and novel manufacturing solutions to stay competitive and satisfy customers. Despite these formidable challenges, many Consumer Goods Manufacturers have yet to develop the end-to-end digital design and validation processes required to optimize manufacturing performance and eliminate enigmatic difficulties.

Enabling virtual process validation

Brands can alleviate concerns by leveraging virtual system simulation that integrates mechanical with electronics and complex software. Additionally, manufacturers can design product manufacturing and processes more effectively.

Eliminate uncertainty by introducing solutions that validate product production processes and performance with manufacturing intelligence, guaranteeing that new items are less difficult to manufacture and that the plant is prepared to manufacture them.

Digital twins to accelerate transformation

With the aid of our fully-integrated digital solutions and the power of the digital twin for manufacturing, companies can leverage multidisciplinary design to develop and deliver exceptional products with our comprehensive portfolio of solutions.

Innovation begins with digital transformation, and the best-in-class are preparing for the future by implementing end-to-end digital solutions.

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Funzionalità della soluzione

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Adaptable PLM Foundation

An adaptable product lifecycle management (PLM) foundation can help you respond quickly to change from business or market disruptions. Business-wide collaboration is easy when PLM is accessible from a web browser, on any device, and within the design tools and office applications people use every day. You can choose from flexible deployment options (on-premises, cloud, SaaS) for fast time-to-value and lower cost of ownership.

Design for Additive Manufacture

La produzione additiva sta cambiando il modo in cui i prodotti vengono progettati e fabbricati, permettendo di ottenere progetti ottimizzati in precedenza impossibili o troppo costosi da realizzare. Progettazione, ottimizzazione e costruzione di componenti in metallo e plastica utilizzando i più recenti e innovativi metodi di produzione additiva.

Design for Manufacturing

La progettazione per la produzione può contribuire a ridurre significativamente gli ordini di modifica del progetto (ECO), i difetti di produzione, i costi e i ritardi. DFMPro for NX offre strumenti High Definition 3D in grado di automatizzare e formalizzare il processo di revisione della progettazione per la producibilità, consentendo di identificare gli errori di progetto che risultano eccessivamente complessi, costosi o impossibili da realizzare.

Digital Manufacturing Viewer

Easily share and view manufacturing engineering data stored in your PLM system, from electronic work instructions and 3D models to process simulations and markups.

Environmental Compliance & Product Sustainability

Le funzionalità per la gestione di materiali e sostanze, l'elaborazione automatizzata delle dichiarazioni dei fornitori, la valutazione della conformità e la generazione dei relativi report, a cui si aggiunge un framework PLM per la sostenibilità, consentono di garantire la conformità e risolvere i problemi di sostenibilità.

Industrial Design & Styling

Design e stile distintivi conferiscono alle aziende produttrici un vantaggio competitivo. I nostri prodotti offrono strumenti software computer-aided, flessibili e affidabili per la creazione dell’industrial design e dello stile che accelerano la progettazione assicurando una rapida ideazione del progetto direttamente utilizzabile in fase di modellazione.

Manufacturing Process Planning

Crea con efficienza piani relativi ai processi produttivi e comunicali con efficacia a ogni livello dell'azienda estesa.

Manufacturing Quality Planning

Integra i parametri di qualità durante la progettazione del prodotto, la pianificazione della produzione e la produzione, per garantire la qualità dimensionale e di fabbricazione e per eliminare i costosi problemi di qualità.

Manufacturing Work Instructions

Crea e fornisci al reparto produzione istruzioni di fabbricazione più complete e descrivi più chiaramente i passaggi del processo.