The most experienced provider of Knowledge Based Engineering and
Web Based Design-To-Order™ Systems
John Lambert
CEO and President
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Over the past few years, significant changes in the
field of Knowledge Enabled Automation (Knowledge
Based Engineering) have taken place. Interest in this
cost and cycle time reducing approach (lean
technology) is consistently increasing among
manufacturers as new suppliers of KBE products and
success stories have increased. This increase has
brought with it a dramatic increase in the number of
business, technology comparison and technical
questions regarding KBE.
As the industry leading in Knowledge Based
Engineering and Web-based Design-To-Order
Systems implementation, we have decided to:
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Issue a newsletter which will
address the most common questions currently being
asked by prospective users of KBE.
- Create a Q & A forum where
individuals can post ANY KBE related question and
receive direct answers by the DAA team.
We hope you'll enjoy the newsletter and take
advantage of DAA's wealth of experience in this
growing area.
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| DAA Joins the UGS Partner Program |
UGS, a leading global provider of product lifecycle
management (PLM) software and services, announced
the official signing of Design Automation Associates
Inc. (DAA) into the UGS Partner Program as a Sales
Partner. DAA enters the program at the "Partner"
level and becomes UGS' first reseller to specialize
in selling NX™ Knowledge Fusion software and
related services. Knowledge Fusion is the
knowledge-based engineering (KBE) capability built
into the core of UGS' NX digital product development
software solution.
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| Series: Technology Positioning - Knowledge Based Engineering vs. Traditional Technologies. |
What are the differences between a Configurator
and a KBE Design-To-Order system? When should
you be looking for one or the other?
You should go to DTO vs. a Configurator when either of
the following conditions exist:
- When you need graphical output who's
content can't be sufficiently represented by small
number of template files.
- When the logic involved in generating the
geometric output contains anything beyond straight
forward "if-then" relationships.
Details regarding the differences between
Configurators and KBE systems can be found in this
Whitepaper and also on our website.
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| Knowledge Based Systems on the Web - Question 1 of 5 (More to come) |
What is a Web Based KBE system?
A Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) system is a
software application that automates design,
estimating, quotation and manufacturing related
tasks for companies with custom products, specials
or engineered-to-order products and systems.
These systems are knowledge-based as opposed to
geometry based. Geometry based automation
systems rely on picking from extensive libraries of pre-
established configurations. In situations where the
product offering involves large numbers of potential
variations, these libraries often fall short in
terms of having the correct template. In addition,
as the libraries grow, maintenance often time sis
expensive and impractical.
With KBE system, the essence of the "library"
content is knowledge. When new product application
requirements are established, the KBE system
executes the rule sand dynamically generates the
appropriate geometric or graphical documentation.
With this approach, a small number of rules can
represent a very large number of output
configurations. At the same time, this approach can
virtually eliminate the need for maintenance of CAD
and/or template libraries.
Deployment of a KBE system over the web for real
time product design, estimation in quotation
constitutes a web-based Design-To-Order system.
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| Automated Manufacturing Routings - New DAA Module. |
DAA has recently developed a KBE module that will
produce manufacturing routings, cost estimates
and delivery dates, based on user defined
operations and selection residing in a database.
Together with this database information, and the
geometric features of the subject part (or
assembly), the system figures out the most
appropriate routing. The system considers items
such as required dimensions, tolerances, materials,
the amount of stock machined for each feature at
each operation and the machines available to perform
the operations.
The system compares the features, required
dimensions and required tolerances of the finished
component to
logical machine limits to develop a machining
operation order followed by specific machine
selections to create the desired part. Because the
logic is feature based, it can be used for any
kind of machined component! In addition,
database machine operations, selection criteria,
cost and capacity can easily be updated.
The routing module is an option component that can
be integrated into new or existing KBE systems. It
can also facilitate the production of drawings at
each stage of processing (as a set of manufacturing
operation drawings), provide a BOM from parts in
your inventory, provide tolerance studies or produce
other output as desired.
The routing can be exported in any number of
formats or even sent to an ERP/MRP system if
desired. Contact DAA sales to learn about pricing
and other available options.
Find out more...
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