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CAD Consolidation and Data Integrity

Most companies involved in product design and manufacturing are using multiple CAD or engineering applications. These companies will benefit from consolidating workflows, tools and data types.

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Computer-aided design (CAD) data is the lifeblood of the product development process. The tools that are used to create it need to be managed with much care. As with any complex system, financial savings and better-quality technical results can come from streamlining the process and consolidating the resources. Understanding some of the details of the overall process will help you run a more profitable organization because you will have eliminated redundancy without detracting from overall capabilities.

CAD consolidation is difficult, but necessary

Most companies involved in product design and manufacturing are using multiple CAD or engineering applications. These companies will benefit from consolidating workflows, tools and data types.

In this white paper by Engineering.com, you will learn about:

  • Proprietary CAD data formatting

  • Challenges and benefits of consolidating CAD data

  • Migrating data at scale

  • Scalability and retraining when moving to a new CAD solution