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DISCUS Design
Benefits
With DISCUS Design, you'll save time and money by addressing manufacturing and quality engineering up-front with creation of the 3D model.

- Generates notes, GD&T, symbols, etc., that are necessary for the detailed design
- Provides design producibility information helping to get the design right the first time
- Creates a part-specific Bill of Characteristics that is the basis for FAI and SPC
- Creates a part-specific Bill of Processes as key input for manufacturing planning
- Defines a complete set of characteristic requirements for defining the manufacturing processes
- Creates a part-specific Bill of Documents that defines the specifications to include in the Technical Data Package
A more detailed listing of features and benefits appears below:
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DISCUS Basic Feature |
Pertinent Business Benefit |
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Validate features and characteristics against DFM criteria |
Ensures that part is producible and at the lowest cost |
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Identifies design constraints violated for a specific part |
Reduces quality escapes that result from poorly defined manufacturing processes |
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Recommends suitable notes and PMI to include on a design |
Reduces the time and labor to identify annotation to properly include on a design |
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Identifies characteristic requirements for manufacturing processes |
Reduces time and labor to create routings and work instructions |
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Identifies pertinent specifications to include for the part design |
Reduces the time and labor to identify specifications to call out on a design |
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Evaluates relative cost versus process capabilities |
Reduces design rework efforts on new part designs – get it right the first time |
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Identify specific producibility rules applied to the part |
Improves the understanding of which rules were applied to the part and the results from that application |
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Link Characteristics to specific mfg process questions |
Minimizes the data entry required to perform a producibility analysis |
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Integrate with process capability databases |
Ensures that company-specific process capabilities are addressed |
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Intelligent reuse of data and rules based on part families |
Reduces the time to sift through rules and other requirements that are not applicable to a part |
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Define custom manufacturing process and part features |
Ensure that tool operates within company-specific environment |
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Maintain your own rules for design constraints, process insights, etc. |
Enables engineers to maintain producibility rules without the effort from IT or computer specialist |
