UGS introduces Version 5 of NX(r) software
UGS Corp., a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services has introduced Version 5 of NX(r) software, the next generation of its digital product development software designed to help companies develop innovative products faster and more cost-efficiently.
NX 5 has delivered breakthrough technology innovations to the market, including a high level of productivity improvements in NX software to date. UGS is supporting the launch with a series of Greater Powers themed marketing events around the world.
Major product enhancements the NX 5 incorporates are:
More flexibility - NX 5 provides companies with design freedom to work effectively with all legacy data to maximize reuse without redesign. Benchmark results provided 50% greater efficiency than other competing systems. In addition, NX 5 cuts through the constraints of parametric models enabling compressed design times and reductions in costly errors.
More coordination - NX 5 introduces Active Mockup to the industry to enable engineers to work more efficiently in the context of a total product. Greater visibility and coordination in extended design reviews enable more design iterations in less time.
More productivity - NX 5 increases workflow productivity through a new user interface and NX your way customisation. Customer benchmark results indicated productivity increases of 20%.
More strength - NX 5 seamlessly integrates CAD, CAM and CAE into a unified, open environment for increased product and process information efficiency.
Customer benchmark results indicated 50% faster analysis workflows compared to a leading competitor. In addition, manufacturing machining time is reduced by 20%.
According to ARC Advisory Group, NX 5 enables design for commonisation, not just in terms of part reuse and standardisation, but more importantly, for knowledge-based engineering methods and best practices through an intuitive user interface across a unified set of industrial design, CAD, CAM and CAE capabilities.
According to IDC, UGS has increased the efficiency of its CAD system through new key features in NX 5. UGS calls these features design freedom because they free designers from the constraints imposed by history-based or parametric systems.
Designers can alter design geometry where it occurs without having to undo the design tree. This is particularly valuable for suppliers that support multiple OEMs with multiple CAD systems.
Design Freedom technology for more flexibility
NX 5 delivers key design freedom features to enable companies to develop complex products through an efficient design process. Flexible design tools eliminate constraints imposed by parametric systems. For example, advanced selection intent automatically selects geometry and infers the correct relationship, which allows users to quickly make design changes.
The ability to work on geometry without defined features or history adds an important new level of flexibility, enabling changes to be made in minutes that may require hours in other systems. UGS' approach to design freedom in NX 5 creates flexibility that takes CAD/CAM/CAE to another level of maturity.
One important example, NX 5's approach provides the flexibility to deal with last-minute design changes due to market shifts and design-for-postponement strategies.
In addition to flexible design tools, NX 5 embeds the JT(tm) data format - the PLM industry's widely used lightweight 3D data format for product visualisation and collaboration – to support files from multiple CAD programs to speed the design process.
NX 5 also improves concurrent design by enabling companies to reduce rework and improve collaboration by creating interfaces to parts, then publishing and managing them in Teamcenter(r) software, UGS' PLM portfolio.
By publishing part interfaces, companies can simplify impact analysis, streamline change notifications, and reduce change conflict in concurrent design scenarios by up to 60% based on beta customer feedback.
According to LG Electronics, NX 5's new assembly constraints capabilities and reuse library, accessed directly from the Teamcenter managed environment, will help to design products much faster.
JT is already a part of LG’s design review and therefore it has strong interest in the new NX 5 Active Mockup. The NX 5 will save LG time through reduced translation efforts and maintained associativity with the NX model.
Active Mockup for more coordination
NX 5 introduces Active Mockup technology. Active Mockup enables engineers to use one product for instantaneous review of design changes in the full context of their total product.
UGS has solved a problem that originally required a completely separate application. By eliminating this need, UGS has streamlined the design process, saving customers development time and money.
Freedom to innovate combined with JT interoperability, directly addresses the reality of suppliers having to support multiple CAD systems for their OEM clients. NX 5 will enable companies to consolidate their software investments while significantly improving the productivity of engineering resources.
Active Mockup rapidly modifies model data regardless of its origin. In addition, NX 5's embedded JT technology delivers five times the graphics performance and reduces memory usage by 70%. For Teamcenter/NX users, this enables true configuration-driven variant mockup.
Version 5 of NX(r) is available from Product Lifecycle Management.
18-Apr-2007