3D process design management system helps China's manufacturing industry

Manufacturing is an important manifestation of a country's international competitiveness and comprehensive strength. The sustainable development of industrial manufacturing is not only important for the country's economic construction, but also an important link to improve productivity and people's living standards. At this stage, China is always inseparable from manufacturing, and China has become the world's largest manufacturing country. In recent years, the state has carried out in-depth reform and innovation development strategies. “ Made in China 2025 ” has accelerated the adjustment and upgrading of industrial structure, and has also effectively promoted the development of China's manufacturing industry.

While China's manufacturing industry has made tremendous development achievements, it should always be vigilant. Compared with developed countries in the world, we still have many problems to be solved, such as product quality and low technology content. At the same time, however, it is not necessary to overstate pessimistically many problems faced by the manufacturing industry. In this regard, the Deputy Director of the Planning Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that the integration of information technology and traditional manufacturing is a magic weapon for the development of China's manufacturing industry today. The manufacturing industry, especially the machinery industry, will also be dominated by informatization, using modern technologies such as advanced technologies, models and management tools.

CAPP (Computer Aided Process Planning) refers to the use of computer hardware and software technology and support environment, the use of computers for numerical calculations, logical judgments and reasoning functions to determine the machining process of parts. With the help of the CAPP system, it is possible to solve the problems of low efficiency, poor consistency, unstable quality, and difficulty in achieving optimization of manual process design. It is also the use of computer technology to assist the craftsman to complete the design and manufacturing process of parts from the blank to the finished product. It is also an important embodiment of information technology in the machinery industry. At present, the CAPP system has been widely used in the machinery industry.

The Touareg 3D Process Design Management System, PI-3D CAPP, is a process development software based on the CREO platform designed in a 3D environment. It seamlessly integrates with the design process to ensure the entire process from the initial design state to the final product state. Controlled management. The system covers the processing of blanks to finished products, sheet metal blanking to bending, assembly of parts to the whole machine, and the resources needed in the process, the cost, etc., and finally realize the MBD database. .

a good helper for the craftsman

In the current product process, the design work has been relatively complete, but there are often more or less problems in the production process. At this time, the role of the craftsman is particularly important. Nowadays, many of the work of the craftsman still stays at the level of 2D drawings. The process documents are also illustrated by words and 2D drawings. Such guidance documents have higher requirements for operators and require a lot of guidance and training work. Today is too inefficient.

The emergence of the Pi-3D CAPP ended this embarrassing situation, because the software is based on the designer software creo and built the process innovation platform that the craftsman needs. Inherit the design model and create the process model, and fully consider the actual conditions required for the process to design the process steps. The purpose of the design model is to complete the three-dimensional design of the required ideas. What is the consideration of the craftsman? The process flow of the design model is implemented under existing equipment and process conditions. Pi-3D CAPP inherits the powerful design and simulation functions of Creo, and utilizes the three-dimensional design function of creo to improve the three-dimensional operation and result output of the process, making the process work more specific, and also making the operator intuitive and clear when viewing data, avoiding unnecessary Low-level mistakes.

Professional process plan innovation platform

With Pi-3D CAPP, the craftsman can easily use the design model for simple process operations. In the assembly process design process, modular operation is conveniently used to divide the whole model into multiple modules, and then the module is The technical operation makes the video production simple and convenient, and the final production result can facilitate the interaction design of the operator, and it is convenient to view the operation of the parts at various positions. The part processing technology design can use the design model to generate the process blank model, and then carry out related process steps on the process model. The database integrated tooling furniture and related standard parts can be classified and managed, and transferred from the database during use, which is convenient and quick.

Pi-3D CAPP software integrates a large number of process information and models. It is easy to classify and clear. It breaks through the bottleneck of traditional 2D process in process design process, improves the efficiency of process design and animation simulation, and shortens product production cycle. It can bring the following benefits to the user: inherit design data, process design uses 3D design data, convenient and fast; database integrates a large number of machine tools, tooling and process information, standardize process design, and speed up; inherit design data, process design adopts 3D The design data is convenient and quick; the process steps such as process steps are intuitive and quick to design, and the process model is easy to change; the generated results are compatible with the browser, and the operator can interactively view, clear and intuitive.

Today, with global economic integration, China must have a sense of crisis, especially in the face of the recovery of US manufacturing and the weakening of China's cost advantage. China must create high value-added products, accelerate the upgrading of industrial structure, and vigorously develop science and technology. On the road of implementing information technology and manufacturing development, Pi-3D CAPP will also bring more production value to enterprises, and intelligent technology will reduce cost pressure and open up new market space.