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CAD/CAM Design Methodologies - Case Studies

Delphi Receives Patents for Cost Reducing CAD/CAM Products

Invited Paper: "Add Value with Methodology" by Gary Patelski and Jeffrey Solash
Desktop Engineering, pp 18 - 19, December 2004
Standardized design methodologies improve CAD/CAM on-time performance, leading to greater innovation and improved profits. Download the PDF to read the story.

Driving Down Design Costs
Ron Andrews, a senior Delphi product designer, and his colleagues took on new challenge: Find a way to more easily modify a CAD model, yet continue to use their current CAD software. They decided to change the paradigm -- to look beyond the standard techniques for using their CAD software. The result was Horizontal Modeling™, a methodology that reduced the time for editing models by 50% and saved his team $2,420,000 per year in manpower. To read the full story, download a PDF version of the case story.

Gaining the Upper Hand in Design for Manufacturing
It was the time savings that Kevin Marseilles, a Delphi senior process designer, noticed first. The CAD files from the product groups were so different -- they were unbelievably easy to reuse and modify. Delphi's Digital Process Design™ methodology was making his work at Delphi Steering a lot smoother. It shortened the time to edit process drawings by 90% and delivered a 3- to 4-fold reduction in manufacturing lead time. To read the full story, download a PDF version of the case story.