Cortona3D

What is Cortona3D?

Cortona3D is a powerful, flexible and cost-effective document authoring tool that facilitates the creation of digital and interactive documentation for use on the shop floor or by customers. Cortona3D enables organizations to easily produce and/or update all the support documentation that end users will need to execute their tasks efficiently and correctly on the production or assembly line. The tools allows manufacturing engineers to reuse existing CAD data or other 3D source material to author interactive 3D visualizations for more effective support documentation, dramatically reducing effort and timelines. Its intuitive interface enables users with no 3D expertise to create compelling simulations and associated text simultaneously.

Integration with Siemens Teamcenter

Cortona3D is a standalone application, but it can also be integrated to Siemens Teamcenter. Many manufacturers today face the continuous pressure to deliver competitive products faster and have implemented Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions to improve and synchronize their design, engineering and manufacturing processes. Still, this pressure, combined with the increasing trend towards mass customization and high product variability, has made it difficult for companies to keep up with product changes and prevent launch delays due to the siloed development of product and documentation. More often than not, technical publication is still largely isolated and a follow-on process. Moreover, trying to do this with traditional authoring systems, i.e. authors create and manage their work in isolated from product development environment, can cause significant inaccuracy and rework when engineering changes occur.

Cortona3D for Teamcenter is an integrated solution that overcomes this isolation and enables technical authors to work in the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) environment and interact directly with engineering design geometry and bills of material (BOMs) to rapidly create 2D/3D interactive parts catalogs, maintenance manuals, training materials and Electronic Work Instructions (EWI) that reflect accurate product description. Cortona3D for Teamcenter is tightly integrated with Teamcenter Manufacturing Process Planner (MPP). With direct access to product source material authors can start to create content for publications and manage changes between variants. The integrated solution makes certain that documentation is accurate, complete and up-to-date.

Source: Cortona3D with Siemens Teamcenter Integration

Features of Teamcenter with Cortona3D

User-friendly tool to easily create and update digital part catalogs, training materials and 3D work instructions
Author text, 3D and 2D visual content directly from the engineering information
Create interactive part catalogs, allowing customers to click "manipulate the 3D model" to identify the exact part that they need to reorder
Create animated and interactive training material to cut training time and costs and quickly bring new employees up to speed on the production process
Create Electronic Work Instructions (EWI) to visually depict the sequence of operations and call out any other necessary details Enable end user to play, pause and manipulate the animation to better support complex procedures on the shop floor
Leverage version control, workflow management and automatic synchronization with engineering Bill of Materials (eBOM), manufacturing Bill of Materials (mBOM) and manufacturing Bill of Process (mBOP)

Benefits of Teamcenter with Cortona3D

Improve the quality of customer support and training information by delivering text, 3D and 2D visual content that is authored directly from the engineering information
Eliminate the isolation that separates technical publications groups from their engineering design/development counterparts by effectively using CAD and BOM in both environments
Improve cross-discipline communications while providing an integrated product definition that all product support teams can use to understand the impact of approved design changes by using a single system
Reduce take-to-market risk and improve time-to-market schedules by eliminating the dependency on isolated information silos, manually-maintained tracking mechanisms or individual knowledge workers
Reduce the risk of inconsistent or out-of-date technical documentation while shortening the length and complexity of the publications cycle by providing a holistic environment for managing both product and documentation development
Reduce production time and manage resources effectively by providing these domains with a common platform for effectively integrating otherwise isolated information assets and streamlining cross-discipline tasks across the enterprise