This document discusses product design reuse and challenges. It describes design reuse as leveraging previous CAD models and design knowledge to develop new products faster. Challenges include accessing relevant information in context, determining how and when to reuse designs, and utilizing existing designs and associated engineering data like specifications and test reports. The demonstration will showcase an Aras Innovator product lifecycle management solution for improving design reuse through capabilities like integrated search across data sources, capturing design knowledge in a data model, and SolidWorks integration for operations that aid reuse like copy, insert and replace of CAD components.

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Achieving Greater Design Reuse
Bill Gilchrist May 1, 2013

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What is Design Reuse?
• Augment the Product Design Process to develop the right
product in the least amount of time
• Typically it begins with accessing previous CAD models to create
the next New Design
• Starting point could begin with a geometric design, specific item
characteristics, or some other unique criteria
• Leveraging Design Knowledge from one design to be applied to
another

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Why Design Reuse?

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What are the Challenges?
• Access to relevant information that is in context of your Design Objective
• To Much or Not Enough Information to Rely On
• Leveraging the design information or related information
• Frustration from User Community that Do Not have access the relevant information
• Developing a strategy for design reuse in the product development
process
• What, When, Why, Why and How should you Reuse an existing Design
• Utilizing the Existing Designs to satisfy your objectives
• Engineering - Specs, Functional Requirements, Test Reports, ECOs, BOMs …
• Business - Customer Feedback, Financial Information, Reduce Development time …

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Demonstration will include…
• Discover Innovator from NorthRidge
• Google-like search within Aras Innovator
• Enterprise Search with data sources beyond Aras Innovator
• Improving information accessibility and visibility
• Aras Innovator
• Leveraging the Data Model for capturing Design Knowledge
• SolidWorks Connector for Aras from SofTech
• Copy, Insert and Replace operations to improve Design Reuse
• Store Document and Store BOM operations to be utilized in your Product Development

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Demo…

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Questions ?
Bill Gilchrist
bgilchrist@softech.com