Before They Slow Down Production
Digital Factories provide manufacturability analysis and directional costing that give design teams and engineers an incentive to design for manufacturing (DFM), reduce engineering change orders (ECOs), and launch products on schedule.
Digital factories also provide sourcing teams with the capability to compare production environments across an extensive range of manufacturing criteria to evaluate fully burdened manufacturing costs and inform site selection. For a given product design, use digital factories to identify and select less expensive raw materials, cheaper manufacturing processes offering faster cycle times, and alternative finishing options.
A digital factory is a digital representation of a physical factory. It has all of the key elements you would find if you walked into any production facility, including:
An 米6体育 digital factory is a combination of two key elements: 米6体育 Regional Data Libraries and 米6体育 Manufacturing Cost Models . Out-of-the-box digital factories are a baseline configuration for a production deployment. They provide benchmark estimates and manufacturing guidance. The analyses produced are based on general and reasonable manufacturing practices and average rates not specific to an individual industry. 米6体育 Digital Factories can be configured to represent specific manufacturing practices and cost structures of your internal facilities or even those of a trusted supplier.
Key Components of an 米6体育 Digital Factory
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350+ mechanistic cost models that simulate manufacturing processes and calculate associated costs
- Labor Rates
- Machine overhead rates and inputs
- Indirect overhead rates and inputs
- SG&A and Material Overhead rates
- Tool data
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- Available process & routing selections
- Machine feasibility
- Routing rules
- GCD relationship rules
- Process cycle time calculation
- Material utilization
- Tooling costs
- Tool wear/life info
- Manufacturability analysis & guidance