CAD, UGS Articles

UnigraphicsNX Marketing Brochure (435KB)

An EDS marketing document providing a very high level overview of the UnigraphicsNX CAD solutions.

NX Systems Engineering Powers the Product Lifecycle (980KB)

A White Paper by Technicom, Inc. - Requirements and Specifications Drive the Design - Systems Engineering uses a combination of theories and tools,along with a methodology and procedures,to address real world problems that are often of large scale and scope. Systems engineering activities vary from requirements definition or specification to the conceptual and functional development of systems...

Design for Six Sigma (417KB)

A NX Digital Product Development White Paper - For the majority of organizations, long-term success is tied directly to the new product development process. Tomorrow’s revenue and growth are tightly bound to how successful organizations are at launching new products. Understanding what aspects of a product are key to customer’s perceptions of a product is critical in ensuring a successful product. Value attracts customers. Quality earns respect and innovation differentiates one product from another. Actively building in these items into a product development process, to drive it, provides a key way to ensure product success. This is the key to Design For Six Sigma (DFSS).

Lean Design (391KB)

A NX Digital Product Development White Paper - Lean and the Six Sigma methodologies applied primarily to manufacturing operations have proven that it is possible to achieve dramatic improvements in cost, quality, and time by focusing on process performance. Whereas Six Sigma is most closely associated with defects and quality, Lean is linked to speed, efficiency, and waste. The essence of Lean is to concentrate effort on removing waste while improving operations. The simplified notion of Lean Product Development/Lean Design is to remove waste from all aspects of the product and associated development process before it ever gets to the manufacturing floor.

Reducing Complexity - Focus on Standardization and Reuse (562KB)

A NX Digital Product Development White Paper - As organizations seek to simultaneously reduce product costs and deliver superior products, an increasing emphasis is placed on reducing product complexity. Product complexity includes things like the number of internal components, the amount of difference from previous products, and difficulty of assembly and manufacture.

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