The ability to develop digital master product models with CAE/CAD/CAM software technology has made it possible for you to more fully understand products from a "manufacturability" standpoint during the early design stage. The depth and richness of the product information contained in a digital master model makes it easier to more fully communicate this information to everyone involved in the product development process: including manufacturing and production, as well as marketing, management and your supplier network.

Digital master models help you develop and evaluate multiple design concepts so that the final product more closely matches customer expectations. Quality becomes part of the design process itself and can be built-in instead of added-on. You'll have advance information about the product's shape, behavior and cost long before the fabrication of costly physical models. Digital master models help you minimize scrap, reduce downtime and eliminate wasted or redundant operations.

This approach enables teams to work concurrently by providing common ground for interrelated product development tasks. Instead of having individuals creating one piece of information at a time, the digital master model enables various disciplines to work together much earlier in the product development process, which can help reduce time-to-market.

Autodesk	Autodesk
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire	I-deas NX Series
PTC	UGS