Integrating CAD/CAM using CATIA
Design is one important way to cutting costs and raising quality simultanouesly. Design that eliminates parts not only reduces production costs, but also lowers failure rates. Thus, design is a strategic weapon, when it honors the needs of manufacturing and other departments while presenting an appealing style to the market. Design requires the involvement of not only engineer design but also people from other departments such as manufacturing, finance, marketing and so on.
Design can be figured out completely by number of ways, such as;
1. Performing design calculations
2. Producing and managing parts lists
3. Storing and retrieving design information
4. Producing drawings
5. Producing programs for numerically controlled (NC) machine tools
Design calculations and parts list are the first applications. They are absolutely things to use computers since the presentation should be well organised in well defined ways even the data was just only text and numbers. Storing and retrieving design information from computer is sadly neglected. This may be result of the unstructed data and unwell defined procedures. Lastly, the production of drawings, designs and NC programs using computer are likely to be the activity that many people mean by the term of CAD.
Moreover, The primary input to the design process is acknowledgement in a need of a product and service exists. Therefore, the product design relies on the principle of customers' demands in creating a new product. Earle (1992) has approached the design process above as six steps follows
· Problem Identification
· Preliminary Ideas
· Refinement process
· Analysis process
· Decision process
· Implementation
