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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:

DISCUS Basic Feature

Pertinent Business Benefit

Validate features and characteristics against DFM criteria

Ensures that part is producible and at the lowest cost

Identifies design constraints violated for a specific part

Reduces quality escapes that result from poorly defined manufacturing processes

Recommends suitable notes and PMI to include on a design

Reduces the time and labor to identify annotation to properly include on a design

Identifies characteristic requirements for manufacturing processes

Reduces time and labor to create routings and work instructions

Identifies pertinent specifications to include for the part design

Reduces the time and labor to identify specifications to call out on a design

Evaluates relative cost versus process capabilities

Reduces design rework efforts on new part designs – get it right the first time

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

Link Characteristics to specific mfg process questions

Minimizes the data entry required to perform a producibility analysis

Integrate with process capability databases

Ensures that company-specific process capabilities are addressed

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

Define custom manufacturing process and part features

Ensure that tool operates within company-specific environment

Maintain your own rules for design constraints, process insights, etc.

Enables engineers to maintain producibility rules without the effort from IT or computer specialist