Entries Tagged: Tecnomatix

Flexible Manufacturing

by Markus Erlmann | 17 Jun 2009

Recently, I read about a mobile phone company which mentioned that they need to adjust their manufacturing lines every three weeks due to the fluctuation in the amount of mobile phones they sell over time.Besides reducing manufacturing cost, increasing flexibility is one of the most important goals of manufacturing companies. The main reason is the non-predictable customer demands which change over time.

Let’s look at the most flexible part of a production line: humans … we are much more flexible in terms of reacting to changing conditions than robots or other automated equipment. But most manufacturing lines are highly automated.

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Microsoft and Teamcenter: Better by Design

by dorasmith | 04 Jun 2009

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Jack in Space

by Markus Erlmann | 13 Apr 2009

Recently I wrote about the digital humans Jack and Jill from our digital manufacturing solution Tecnomatix. You might be interested in some actual customer stories and the value they get from the technology. Here you go.

USA-Space, a subcontractor to NASA, uses Jack to simulate the assembly of the Orion crew vehicle.

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Are Digital Humans Cool?

by Markus Erlmann | 19 Mar 2009

... look at this

Cool, isn’t it?

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Heard about Digital Manufacturing?

by Markus Erlmann | 05 Feb 2009

You might say, I know how to design a product, but digital manufacturing? Is it something like the creation of a product out of pure energy; a kind of STAR TREK technology? That would be really cool, but digital manufacturing is more real than that.

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