Q2 2008

VisualFactory.net supports native CAD - SolidWorks, Pro/E & Inventor for accelerating New Product Introduction documentation

Manufacturers are under constant pressure to bring new products to market and need to ensure build quality is consistent with the added pressure of meeting ramp-up deadlines. In partnership with QuadriSpace, VF.net are able to support a digital assembly environment allowing you to build instructions from your 3D data (Native SolidWorks, Inventor and Pro/E )and accelerate the documentation build process and removing the need to wait for 1st build prototype.

VisualFactory.net has gone live with SAP MBOM integration at Volvo construction equipment.

Take a large, spectacularly complex and precisely engineered machine, add 2,000 customer options, connect 10,000 parts and then implement an ECN. What’s the result? A recipe for disaster...but not for Volvo Construction Equipment. Maintaining tight control over engineering data is imperative in the successful design of products, but perhaps the most important area of data control is translating the design intent into the final product, moving that data to the shopfloor. VisualFactory.net provides Volvo Construction Equipment with a robust and safe method of sending assembly information to the shopfloor through their integration with SAP. All BOM items appearing on clear and concise visual work instructions are items within SAP, eliminating the possibility to define the use of incorrect parts. Automated ECN’s updating instructions when engineering approve a design change and where used functionality on work instructions delivers efficiency savings for Design, Engineering and Logistics. Imagine the utopia – a customer order is received and sent to the shopfloor referencing the 100% correct instructions automatically. Instructions are kept up-to-date automatically with BOM changes up-revved at the click of a button. Products are built in a consistent manner with the same and correct engineering data, EVERY time. Imagine no longer, VisualFactory.net integrated with SAP is here today.