Understand the impact of dimensional variation and improve overall build quality. With the highly complex products of today, dimensional variation can consume enormous amounts of time and effort to control. The specified tolerances of single parts can easily lead to issues during assembly, which is a costly time to make changes. Variation Analysis can help reduce the negative impact of variation on product dimensional quality, cost and time to market.
APPLICATIONS
Define Tolerances with Product Manufacturing Information
Leverage the semantic representation of product manufacturing information (PMI) in support of model-based quality engineering to automate feature and tolerance definition and drive better dimensional quality. Tecnomatix® Variation Analysis can extract and validate PMI from various authoring sources via the industry standard JT™ data format, providing feature-based capabilities using tolerances based on geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) methods and standards, and downstream computation, augmentation and consumption for all dimensional quality analysis and inspection requirements.
Perform Comprehensive Root–Cause Analysis
Manufacturing costs can be reduced by maximizing allowable part tolerances while still controlling critical assembly dimensional specifications. Controlling these dimensional characteristics minimizes scrap, rework and warranty defects. Tecnomatix Variation Analysis identifies critical dimensional, tolerance and assembly processes that are key contributors to variation. By adding manufacturing capability data into variation analysis you can perform real-time root-cause analysis of production build problems, helping you improve quality by ensuring that parts fit together properly the first time.
Improve Quality with Variation Simulation and Visualization
Tecnomatix® Variation Analysis software is a powerful dimensional analysis tool used for simulation of manufacturing and assembly processes to predict and quantify the amounts and causes of variation in a robust 3D environment. The software leverages Monte-Carlo simulation and a ConJoin assembly constraint engine for static and kinematic assembly operations within the full range of allowable constraints, and integration to finite element analysis solvers for comprehension of component flexibility due to clamping, welding and springback.
PRODUCTS
Variation Analysis (VSA) :
Address dimensional variation of assembly operations during planning and take control of build quality during production.