Sourcing & Standardization Intelligence

The Preferred Part Consumer role drives designer and architect parts reuse decisions by bringing inside their preferred application the list of parts similar to the one they selected, or answering the query they have written. This list highlights the preference of the company for reuse, based on sourcing and standardization recommendations.

• 3D Similarity search, in the universal language of 3D
• Access different data sources: 3DEXPERIENCE platform, ENOVIA V6, SOLIDWORKS PDM Pro, SmarTeam, and other PLM, PDM, and ERP databases or File systems
• Geometrical feature extraction, such as Hole Detection, Bounding Box, and more
• Side-by-side comparison to make decision based on characteristics, not 3D similarity
• Navigation in product structure to better understand context
• Navigation on related documents for in-depth study of specifications 
• Directly embedded into CATIA for better design process integration

Dedicated to Standardization process managers, Standard Part Analyst helps to identify the different references of the similar standard or engineering parts the company has produced during the past years. The aim is to reduce them by selecting and highlighting the parts that Engineering should use when creating new products, decreasing the time and overall cost of development while improving the quality of the manufactured product.

• Automatic grouping on shape or part characteristics
• Group split and merge
• Side-by-side part characteristics compare window
• Declaration of reuse status:  Master, Alternative or Obsolete
• Classification by family and subfamily
• Publication to OnePart Reuse (Preferred Part Consumer - S1X role)
• Update enabled to track standardization divergence (New in R2019x)