Siemens Tecnomatix FactoryCAD

Summary

Siemens Tecnomatix FactoryCAD enables authoring intelligent 3D models of facilities. Facilitates quicker, more cost effective manufacturing launch. Using out of the box smart objects to reduce effort.

Product Overview

Factory design, layout and installation often take more time than should be necessary. The more time it takes to bring a factory online, the more it can impact the corporate bottom line, due to potential delays in revenue generation or missed market opportunities. Many typical factory layout processes are prone to error, because design teams have a difficult time understanding the impact of equipment placement on the factory floor within a generic, 2D layout environment. Those same misunderstandings can be costly not just because of the numerous iterations involved but because, if not caught early enough, they will have an even costlier impact during setup and installation.

FactoryCAD is a factory layout application that gives you everything you need to create detailed, intelligent factory models. Instead of having to draw lines, arcs, and circles, FactoryCAD allows you to work with "smart objects" that represent virtually all of the resources used in a Factory, from floor and overhead conveyors, mezzanines and cranes to material handling containers and operators. With these objects, you can "snap" together a layout model without wasting time drawing the equipment.

Using FactoryCAD, you will gain critical insight into your factory layout and installation processes. Having a complete understanding of the entire factory and its processes is essential to developing factories right the first time. Only FactoryCAD can provide this capability.

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Manufacturing Challenges Addressed

• 2D Factory design and layout taking too much time
• 2D Factory designs are error-prone with too many revision spins
• 2D Design flaws and issues are negatively impacting factory setup and installation
• 2D layout is insufficient to sell a concept to management and customers

Key Features of FactoryCAD

• A 3D factory modeling and layout tool
• Based on the Autodesk AutoCAD software
• Provides over 150 types of smart objects of factory equipment such as walls, racks, cranes, conveyors, guardrails, and paint booths.
• Create custom equipment objects
• Models hold cost, performance and process information, which can be used by other applications
• Import tooling and product data
• Create 2D and 3D Simultaneously
• Provides 3D output in JT format
• Bill of Materials capability

Business Benefits of FactoryCAD

• Decrease in Interpretation Errors due to 3D visualization and fly thru
• All 3D intelligent layouts
• Rapid development of Concept drawings
• Rapid development of Installation drawings
• Reuse of 3D tooling and product
• Associative elevations and sections

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