Introducing I-DEAS

Designing with Digital Master Models

The ability to develop digital master product models with CAD/CAM/CAE software technology has made it possible for you to more fully understand products from a "manufacturability" standpoint during the early design stage. The depth and richness of the product information contained in a digital master model makes it easier to fully communicate this information to everyone involved in the product development process: including manufacturing and production, as well as marketing, management and your supplier network.

Digital master models help you develop and evaluate multiple design concepts so that the final product more closely matches customer expectations. Quality becomes part of the design process itself and can be built-in instead of added-on. You'll have advance information about the product's shape, behavior and cost long before the fabrication of costly physical models. Digital master models help you minimize scrap, reduce downtime and eliminate wasted or redundant operations.

This approach enables teams to work concurrently by providing common ground for interrelated product development tasks. Instead of having individuals creating one piece of information at a time, the digital master model enables various disciplines to work together much earlier in the product development process, which can help reduce time-to-market.

I-DEAS software from SDRC is uniquely designed to support the digital master model approach.

That's why so many of the world's most successful manufacturers are using I-DEAS to develop better products more rapidly and more cost-effectively.

You can work together more productively in a product-development environment that uniquely supports concurrent or team, engineering because: there is no data translation, so no data gets lost and you can build on, instead of having to redo, the work of others.

I-DEAS was built by engineers for engineers. The software has been designed—and continues to be refined—to meet the needs of some of the world's most innovative manufacturers. Their experience and input have made I-DEAS the most comprehensive mechanical design automation system, offering a complete suite of "best in class" applications.

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