CATIA V5 PLM Express Knowledge Templates (PKE)
Overview
Lengthy engineering changes are often the cause of delays and increased production costs. Companies need to capitalize on their know-how with built-in knowledge templates to save time and focus on innovation.
CATIA – Knowledge Templates enables the creation of intelligent design templates that embed geometry and know-how to reuse with maximum security.
Benefits
- Increased ability to innovate by automating repetitive and tedious design tasks
- Reduced time for bidding and increases responsiveness to inevitable customer engineering changes during design and manufacturing
- Faster production ensures high quality development
- Reduced product complexity and lower overall product development costs
- Usage of user defined features enables management of IP protection between OEM and supplier chain while preserving industrial usage within the company.
Capabilities
- Interactive creation of intelligent feature templates (user defined features)
- Interactive creation of intelligent part and assembly templates including geometry construction and design/engineering rules
- Adaptable to changes in design environments or in internal specifications
- Includes downstream documents (analysis, drawing or manufacturing) in part and assembly templates definition
- Catalogs storage for easy access
- Automatic sequence generation of user defined features or geometric elements
Workbenches
This option contains:
CATIA – Product Knowledge Template Definition 2
CATIA – Knowledge Advisor 2