Tool Design
Align tool design and product development
Avoid high tool costs and long delivery times
Tools and production equipment rank among the most cost-intensive key components in manufacturing. Particularly in injection molding and mold making, these can quickly amount to investment volumes of several hundred thousand Euros. CONTACT Elements Tool Design helps you to fulfill the high demands for coordination with stakeholders such as internal tool design departments or external suppliers. Your company minimizes risks throughout the entire tool manufacturing process, optimizes order placement times, and improves collaboration through integrated project management. By ensuring transparency, both between product and tooling and in cross-departmental collaboration, you achieve efficient processes. You avoid unnecessary tool costs and delayed deliveries.
Your benefits
- Make relationships between products and tools transparent
- Shorten time to market by parallelizing design and production planning
- Avoid delays to the start of production and additional costs with integrated project management
- Seamlessly integrate suppliers
Make relationships between products and tools transparent
Tool design is often organized as a separate area with its own systems. As a result, dependencies between product and tools often remain unclear. Tool Design solves this problem by holistically mapping the relationships between products and the tools required for them. Technical changes to the product can be clearly assigned to the associated tool CAD data and safely adapted as needed.
Tool design is often organized as a separate area with its own systems. As a result, dependencies between product and tools often remain unclear. Tool Design solves this problem by holistically mapping the relationships between products and the tools required for them. Technical changes to the product can be clearly assigned to the associated tool CAD data and safely adapted as needed.
Parallelize design and work preparation – shorten the time to market
With CONTACT Elements as a cross-discipline database, you create the prerequisite for simultaneous engineering. Tool Design allows you to work on tasks in parallel or with a certain amount of overlap. For example, the work preparation department can plan the manufacturing steps and production equipment before design engineering has been completed. This allows you to shorten the time to market by up to 30 percent.
With CONTACT Elements as a cross-discipline database, you create the prerequisite for simultaneous engineering. Tool Design allows you to work on tasks in parallel or with a certain amount of overlap. For example, the work preparation department can plan the manufacturing steps and production equipment before design engineering has been completed. This allows you to shorten the time to market by up to 30 percent.
Save time and costs with integrated project management
Integrated project management ensures continuous transparency in the collaboration between product development and tool design. Shared scheduling and task planning, task boards, and well-defined open points create clear responsibilities and smooth workflows. Early production planning with coordinated work plans and manufacturing BOMs allow you to accelerate the start of production and avoid additional costs resulting from a lack of coordination.
Save time and costs with integrated project management
Integrated project management ensures continuous transparency in the collaboration between product development and tool design. Shared scheduling and task planning, task boards, and well-defined open points create clear responsibilities and smooth workflows. Early production planning with coordinated work plans and manufacturing BOMs allow you to accelerate the start of production and avoid additional costs resulting from a lack of coordination.
Integrated project management ensures continuous transparency in the collaboration between product development and tool design. Shared scheduling and task planning, task boards, and well-defined open points create clear responsibilities and smooth workflows. Early production planning with coordinated work plans and manufacturing BOMs allow you to accelerate the start of production and avoid additional costs resulting from a lack of coordination.
Integrate tool and production equipment suppliers
Seamlessly integrate external suppliers of tools and production equipment into your processes: Through the CONTACT Collaboration Hub, a collaboration environment specifically developed for engineering, you exchange requirements, changes, and design data securely and structuredly. This allows you to avoid costly coordination errors, reduce friction, and increase efficiency along the entire value chain.
Integrate tool and production equipment suppliers
Seamlessly integrate external suppliers of tools and production equipment into your processes: Through the CONTACT Collaboration Hub, a collaboration environment specifically developed for engineering, you exchange requirements, changes, and design data securely and structuredly. This allows you to avoid costly coordination errors, reduce friction, and increase efficiency along the entire value chain.
Seamlessly integrate external suppliers of tools and production equipment into your processes: Through the CONTACT Collaboration Hub, a collaboration environment specifically developed for engineering, you exchange requirements, changes, and design data securely and structuredly. This allows you to avoid costly coordination errors, reduce friction, and increase efficiency along the entire value chain.
Related Elements
From virtual product to smooth start of production
Create transparency in the pre-series process
Map series production ramp-up reliably and control it cost-effectively
Schedule accurately and on time with prototype bills of materials
Document activities in prototyping and testing and synchronize tools with production
Ensure a smooth transition from development to manufacturing
Seamless transition between development and manufacturing thanks to work planning in the PLM system
Reliable transfer of the changes made to engineering BOMs to production
Direct transfer of work plans for processing production orders
Synchronize design and manufacturing bills of materials quickly and reliably
Optimize collaboration between engineering and production planning
Quickly and reliably resolve quantity differences between eBOM and mBOM
Synchronize bills of materials for service, spare parts, and maintenance to ensure data consistency
Securely eliminate 3D model discrepancies
