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Ve-design, Inc. offers a software technology
tool suite for optimizing product design decisions. Since product
design decisions affect material choices, physical design choices,
and manufacturing choices, the Ve-design tool suite cuts across and
serves numerous functional business elements including design, engineering,
procurement, and manufacturing.
The software tool suite overlays the network environment of the enterprise
customer and utilizes real-time connects to its suppliers of components
and other materials, to suppliers of fabrication services, to suppliers
of assembly services. The use of the real-time connects by the software
suite is primarily to gather needed data to develop an optimized product
design considering cost, time-to-market,
and quality/reliability. The patented elements of
the tool suite guide the design engineer in his/her component
specifications and technology decisions toward optimality, guide
the procurement officer in optimal assessment of market prices/availability
and supplier choices for specified materials, and guide the manufacturing
engineer in best choices of assembly sequencing and production.
These are the various elements of product design and execution and,
together, they make up the product development process. The tool suite
also offers managers of these functions the opportunity to establish
metrics and explicitly measure performance of the entire product
development process in terms of the business goals of cost, time and
quality.
The
Tool Suite |
Initial tests on full scale production PCBA
indicate that companies using the tool set can achieve optimal time-too-market,
cost and quality that can significantly reduce the time and costs
involved to bring new products to market, compared to current product
development processes.
The tool suite includes decision support tools and associated services
that optimize simultaneously, in real time, time-to-market, product
cost and reliability parameters during the product realization process.
With web-based visibility to component price and availability data,
millions of design alternatives are identified. Using the Ve-design
proprietary patented processes, each alternative is evaluated to determine
product cost, material lead times, and manufacturing interval anticipated.
The tools select the optimal alternatives that can provide differential
advantage by achieving Six Sigma levels in time, cost and reliability