Plastics Design Software is collaboration-ready.
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Preconfigured software packs target design to mold base manufacture process. Mold Design pack supports design of plastic parts, including core and cavity creation. Mold Solution pack supports design of complete mold base assemblies, including core and cavity, through use of knowledge base and access to 15 commercial catalogs. Dynamic Modeling Open Extensions are available in both packs, and are designed for working with imported designs.
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CoCreate Software Delivers Collaborative Design Solutions for Plastics Design-to-manufacture Process
New Solutions Help Achieve 50% Faster Turnaround Time, Establish Higher Levels of Collaborative Design with Customers and Suppliers.
FORT COLLINS, Colo., and SINDELFINGEN, Germany - Feb. 7, 2002 -
CoCreate Software Inc. today announced that its series of collaborative design solutions targeting the plastics design to mold base manufacture process is available now. From initial concepts for plastic products to complete development of the mold base assembly, two preconfigured solution packs target the two key stages of the entire process:
* The new Mold Design pack supports the design of plastic parts, including core and cavity creation; and
* The new Mold Solution pack supports the design of complete
mold base assemblies, including core and cavity, through the use of knowledge based and access to 15 commercial catalogs.
Both solutions are "collaboration ready," enabling companies to design collaboratively in real-time with customers and suppliers using OneSpace Adviser and the corresponding collaborative service. The software helps companies catch potential design flaws earlier in the process, reduce travel, increase the quality of their final products nd tooling, and increase collaboration and communication among all contributors. Mold Design Pack CoCreate's Mold Design pack includes all of the key capabilities product designers need to create plastic parts, core and cavities, and to consider the design-for-manufacture
aspects of designing plastic components. The pack provides a rich set of capabilities for creating high-precision high-complexity injection-molded plastic parts.
The Mold Design Pack contains the following:
* Mold Design for creating plastic parts rapidly while considering typical design-for-manufacture issues;
* Dynamic Surfacing for the stylized and highly ergonomic design typical of plastic components;
* OneSpace Designer for full-concept, detail and pre-production 3D design;
* MEl0 Dynamic Drafting for 2D-based design and drafting; and
* Design Data Management for such things as managing drawings, models, assemblies and revisioning.
Mold Solution Pack
CoCreate's Mold Solution pack includes all key capabilities to create the corresponding mold base assembly, including core and cavities, and to consider design-for-manufacture aspects of the mold base. The Mold Solution Pack contains the following:
* Mold Base for creating mold base assemblies while considering typical design-for-manufacture issues;
* Mold Design for creating plastic parts rapidly while considering typical design-for-manufacture issues;
* OneSpace Designer for full-concept, detail and pre-production design;
* ME10 Dynamic Drafting for 2D-based design and drafting; and
* Design Data Management for managing such things a drawings, models, assemblies and revisioning.
Fully Leverage Existing 3D Designs with DMOX
CoCreate's Dynamic Modeling Open Extensions (DMOX) is designed
especially for working with imported designs, and the technology is available in both process packs. With DMOX, tool and molding, engineers can now leverage 3D data directly from any CAD source, using a wide range of industry and standard formats, without having to remodel any of the original product data, even while they are working on the data, and adjusting blends, fillets and tapers.
Collaborative Services - Establishing Higher Levels of Customer
Relationships The two packs are both "collaboration ready," allowing designers to collaborate with their customers and suppliers immediately. Two additional options enable collaboration and are available for the plastics design-to-manufacture process:
* Personal collaboration service -- supports a virtual meeting of two people and is the ideal solution for collaborative design between tool designers and their suppliers;
* Project collaboration service -- supports collaborative design among a project team of up to five participants. This solution is ideal for larger teams in which the customer, suppliers, parts designers and tool designers all collaborate.
With both services, participants can share 3D design data, and then view, mark up and drive 3D design changes together. The services, supported by OneSpace Designer and Adviser, allow teams to collaborate securely, with the added protection of industry-standard 128-Bit SSL encryption.
"Our collaboration-ready solutions enable our tooling and molding
customers to establish the highest levels of customer relationships," said Tilman Schad, president and CEO of CoCreate. "And that helps establish higher customer loyalty, and, ultimately, generate more business."
Immediate Benefits and Measurable Results
"We've been able to improve our new product offerings by incorporating the knowledge and experience of more than 1,000 customers working with plastics, tools and molds," said Ulrich Mahle, vice president of Engineering at CoCreate. "These new offerings dramatically accelerate the design-to-manufacture process."
Customer Quotes
"These new CoCreate solutions have enabled us to shorten the total product development process by up to 50 percent. Our tooling and molding specialists have also reduced lead times for molds by 50 percent using CoCreate's Solutions."
Satoshi Kondo, general manager, Canon mechanical CAD solutions
development division, a global leader in business machines, cameras and optical products
"A key contribution we bring to our customers is the reduction of time and risk involved in the development of plastic parts. CoCreate's OneSpace Solution Suite helps us to provide input to our customers as early in the development process as possible. This approach helps us reduce turnaround on new tooling designs by up to 50% while increasing quality of the finished product."
Bob Bechtold, president, Harbec, a leading U.S.-based mold and tool design company
Components of the OneSpace Solution Suite are actively deployed by more than 11,000 companies operating in dynamic industries and are the backbone of collaborative design at a number of global companies, including Flextronics, HP, Agilent, Canon, FESTO, Harbec, Phoenix Contact and Oce.
Availability
Both packs are available now and run on Windows and UNIX platforms.
About CoCreate
Since its inception in 1984, a singular vision -- "Innovation through Shared Minds(TM)" -- has propelled CoCreate to its position as a leading provider of collaborative product design solutions that allow companies worldwide to design better products faster.
CoCreate's OneSpace Solution Suite is an integrated component of an organization's Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC)infrastructure that complements existing data and process technologies. The OneSpace Solution Suite provides a powerful, collaborative product design environment that fosters innovation and communication across the extended development team. This environment empowers people with various interests and talents to join together to explore ideas, tomake more rapid and better decisions, leading to superior products and faster time to market.
