Web-Based Software helps manufacturers implement GD&T.
Press Release Summary:
Multilingual e-GAD(TM) (electronic Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Aided Design) software suite provides solution for guiding employees and suppliers through encoding and decoding GD&T to avoid conflicting interpretations. Best Practices Guide is an online compilation of GD&T concepts, tools, rules, and processes, and On-Line Advisor provides just-in-time animation-based training. Software is available in ASME Y14.5 and ISO 1101 versions.
Original Press Release:
Multi Metrics Launches e-GAD(TM), its New, Multilingual, On-line GD&T Performance Support Tool, Enabling Customers, Like Synthes, to Truly Accelerate Time to Market, Reduce Manufacturing Costs and Improve Quality
September 13, 2006, Chicago, IL, International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS 2006) - Multi Metrics, Inc., a leading global provider of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) software and services, today announced the launch of e-GAD(TM) (electronic GD&T Aided Design), a multilingual, web-based software suite which streamlines and supports the use of GD&T in the global marketplace. Powered by Multi Metrics' SmartGD&T(TM) technology, e-GAD delivers on-demand, self-guided technical support and just-in-time training, enabling companies of any size to actually reap the benefits of GD&T internally and throughout their supply chains.
Available in ASME Y14.5 and ISO 1101 versions, e-GAD provides companies with a proven system for guiding employees and suppliers through the processes of "encoding" and "decoding" GD&T, to guarantee functional parts and to avoid the conflicting "interpretations" which result from varying "tribal understandings". e-GAD is comprised of the Best Practices Guide and the On-line Advisor. The Best Practices Guide is a highly organized, multilingual, on-line, compilation of GD&T Concepts, Tools, Rules, and Processes. The On-Line Advisor, on the other hand, is a self-guided, just-in-time animation based training resource, which is accessible directly from the Best Practices Guide via context sensitive links. Both components can be customized to include confidential corporate notes, CAD drawings, and standardized corporate encoding schemes for part families.
e-GAD is based on SmartGD&T technology, Multi Metrics' rule based, process driven approach to managing GD&T. In addition to enhancing the ability of users to unambiguously communicate design intent to manufacturing and quality assurance, SmartGD&T technology empowers users to research and refine their designs in the Design phase, rather than by costly trial and error on the assembly floor.
Synthes, a leading global medical device company with design and manufacturing operations in the United States, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, has licensed 250 seats of e-GAD as a key component in their corporate-wide implementation of GD&T. Synthes develops, produces and markets instruments, implants and biomaterials for the surgical fixation, correction and regeneration of the human skeleton and its soft tissues.
"Synthes has a reputation in the medical device industry for extremely high quality and reliability. Their adoption of SmartGD&T as a design and quality control tool is right in-line with that reputation," said Bill Tandler, President of Multi Metrics. "By implementing e-GAD in English and German, Synthes engineers and suppliers, whether they have ASME Y14.5 or ISO 1101 backgrounds, find common ground at the same time as they get real time support and guidance, making GD&T efficient and effective at every location." About Multi Metrics, Inc.
Multi Metrics, founded in 1975, is a world leader in GD&T software and services. Through its line of SmartGD&T based software tools, training and consulting products, Multi Metrics enables companies to not only learn, but to actually realize the promise of GD&T, namely to achieve the significant reductions in new product ramp-up times and manufacturing and inspection costs, which lead to increased profits.
