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Product design companies are under increasing competitive pressure to get products to market faster and faster while meeting the unrelenting consumer demand for higher levels of product quality and innovation.
CAD solutions, particularly 3D CAD solutions, offer designers a virtual work environment where they can be both creative and productive. Design companies that utilise these computational tools benefit from significant time and cost savings by reducing the concept-to-market timeframe without compromising product quality.

Maintain & expand your market share

Many organisations like to use a previous design as the baseline for a new or enhanced product. CAD solutions facilitate rapid change and the adaptation of your designs as and when required.
Variants of your products can be created quickly before your competitors seize the opportunity to take some, if not all, of your market share.
Because digital design data can be easily re-used, significant adaptation of core designs takes a fraction of the time it would take if you started from scratch.

Companies designing products on a drawing board in a traditional 2D drafting environment are vulnerable.

Why?

Because there is a much greater likelihood of them encountering difficulties during manufacture, having to reject completed products post manufacture or having to replace or repair products that prematurely failed in service.  For these companies, the subsequent financial costs can be quite significant. The use of CAD solutions greatly reduces and, in some cases, eliminates the type of fundamental mistakes that typically go undetected in the design process until late in the cycle when the costs involved in resolution are much greater.

In a 3D environment it is so much easier to detect problems of fit and form early in the design process.

Retain Your Intellectual Property

In some organisations, a significant quantity of important knowledge goes undocumented, unrecorded and unsecured. The rationale behind and the knowledge associated with key design decisions are often retained by individuals who take that knowledge with them when they leave. CAD solutions inherently preserve design knowledge. Intellectual property is constantly captured and retained in a digital design database thereby making it accessible for others within the organisation and for re-use in the future.

Companies designing products on a drawing board in a traditional 2D drafting environment are vulnerable. Why? Because there is a much greater likelihood of them encountering difficulties during manufacture, having to reject completed products post manufacture or having to replace or repair products that prematurely failed in service.  For these companies, the subsequent financial costs can be quite significant.

The use of CAD solutions greatly reduces and, in some cases, eliminates the type of fundamental mistakes that typically go undetected in the design process until late in the cycle when the costs involved in resolution are much greater. In a 3D environment it is so much easier to detect problems of fit and form early in the design process.

There is no best solution for every situation. Just the most appropriate method for the task at hand.
Both have considerable benefits – so will your company profit from using both Computer Aided Design methods?

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