Category: Engineering

EDST e-Learning is an online learning initiative by EDS Technologies leveraging 25 years of industry experience as the largest Engineering and Enterprise Solutions company in India. The online courses are curated by industry experts and academic subject-matter leaders.

EDST Technologies is a Certified Education Partner to Dassault Systèmes and an authorized Academic Partner to Autodesk ensuring certified industry-specific programs enabled through these partnerships. EDS Technologies has developed training programs tailor-made for students, beginners and advanced users in Automotive, Aerospace, Industrial Equipment, AEC and other industries. It has trained more than 60 thousand users and has experience of 6 million training hours in the last 25 years.

EDST Technologies capitalized years of experience in training and launched online learning platform EDST e-Learning. It specializes in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Industry based skills courses. Courses are meticulously curated by a team of industry experts and academicians. Currently, e-learning courses range from Product Design, Domain Courses, Industry CAD applications such as CATIA, AutoCAD, Solidworks Inventor, and Revit and is extensively working on launching new courses.

The industry is amidst the Industry 4.0 revolution and it is going to transform the workplace through technology innovations such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Automation, Advanced Analytics Internet of Things and Advanced Robotics. As per Deloitte Consulting, there will be 4.6M manufacturing jobs to fill from 2018–2028 however skill gap may leave an estimated 2.4 million positions unfilled. EDST e-Learning’s vision is to bridge this skill gap and upskill the workforce of the future.

For the past decade, Digital Economy is transforming the traditional manufacturing process with modern digital systems. Digital Manufacturing has improved the Quality, Efficiency, and Sustainability of Manufacturing. Manufacturers are now open to new and improved business practices to start their digital transformation journey.

Traditional manufacturing has worked well so far for mass production by being cost-effective with short cycle times. However, extensive manufacturing equipment generates more waste with inventory overflow and high energy consumption. Whereas, digital manufacturing is sustainable, efficient, and flexible with boundless manufacturing opportunities.

Digital Manufacturing is modern manufacturing with end-to-end technology including hardware and software integration. Manufacturers have realized the need to optimize their business model to align with the modern market and start their digital transformation journey.

Each stage of the digital systems is connected, aligned, and improved. The digital simulations of 3D CAD models generated by PLM software enable product feedback and corrections. The design is digitally refined by addressing the issues and updating the product without affecting the time and cost of production. The product blueprint is finalized only after complete quality control and then sent for production.

Customers now seek customizable and unique products for their needs. It is easy to customize the product design as per customer requirements with reduced time consumption and manual labor.

Product testing is another important process in product manufacturing. Digital manufacturing enables the production of small batches for product testing and also provides better inventory control. This ensures further refining of the product to deliver better and more quality products in an efficient automated system. Also, it enables the ability to switch production and product design with the change in market trends and product demand. Digital transformation in manufacturing ensures a reduction in waste generation, time, and fuel consumption reinforces sustainability in the whole manufacturing process.

According to ‘Investing for a Sustainable Future,’ an MIT report, Sustainable Business Models are likely to generate twice the profit. By adopting Digital Manufacturing technology practices, manufacturers are saving time, cost, and conserving natural resources. Digital Manufacturing creates an automated process that helps project managers make informed decisions for efficient and faster production.

The future of digital manufacturing is bright and beaming with numerous opportunities for a sustainable world. At EDS Technologies, we strive to be part of the Movement for Global Sustainability in Business with our solutions. We also encourage our customers who are manufacturing companies to start their digital transformation journey with our engineering solutions such as DELMIA, CATIA, SIMULIA, ENOVIA and 3DEXPERIENCE for a better world.

Quality Control (QC) is a vital process in product development that guarantees defect-free products to customers. Ideally, product design and development is done with the perfect flow of data between different teams, departments, and companies with reduced cycle times. Manufacturers are always under pressure to produce a large volume of products in a shorter cycle leading to rushed quality checks.

The common issues in product data quality are incurred by errors and discrepancies in:

• Norms and Standards in layers, naming conventions, parameters, start model, and drafting conventions.
• Geometric continuity of leaks, holes, standard rotation, tiny edges, and duplicate entities.
• Methods for functional tolerance annotations (FT/A), model links, feature order, and specification tree order.

If Quality Control is not implemented successfully, the business is at risk with their customers. For example, the recent case of defects in the airbags of a Japanese Global Automotive Parts Company resulted in one of the most significant automotive product recalls. The automotive company had to recall 69 million airbags valued at billions of dollars.

Successful implementation of quality control is important yet tricky. Quality checks are often done at the end of the production process, detecting the product issues after the fact. However, effective quality control includes two levels:

• Engineers identify and address the errors and issues in the product design right away.
• Operators observe the manufacturing process to ensure there are no variations in the product data.

Manual Quality Check is time-consuming and prone to human errors. Implementing the use of modern digital systems helps in optimizing quality control to produce error-free products efficiently. Q-checker is one such digital quality control tool that helps manufacturers to produce error-free final products.

Q-Checker is a Product Data Quality (PDQ) management application that ensures company design standards and specifications adherence within CATIA throughout the digital manufacturing process. Q-Checker is the world’s leading system for quality assurance in digital manufacturing developed by Technia. It enforces efficiency, productivity, and high product quality in the digital design and production processes.

Q-Checker is an add-on module integrated into CATIA V5 that checks the product data quality and provides a verified check seal for final product data. This check seal stores the model results with high security and enhances internal collaboration with suppliers. This seal saves the time of the follow-up teams by eliminating the need for parts checking to ensure product accuracy and quality.

The functions of Q-Checker are implemented on CAD models in interactive and batch mode to check CATProducts, CATParts, and CATDrawings. The profile editor establishes the criteria that the CAD models are checked for in the design process. The check profile has 400+ checks available, and it is possible to configure new checks with the profile editor as per user requirements for each OEM, project, process, and product.

The Q-checker profile consists of a series of files and folders that define which examinations are to be executed with which options. These files are viewed and edited in the check profile editor. A useful advantage of Q-Checker is the automatic heal option for 50% of the standard checks that help with the automation of the check and correction of parameters.

Key Features of Q-Checker:

• Enforce CATIA standards: It ensures the company design standards adherence during the design process in a CATIA V5 system that helps in improved product quality, productivity and efficiency.
• Establish Supplier Trust: Product design and development involves multiple suppliers sending their product data. Using Q-Checker throughout the OEM, the quality of the product data sent by a supplier possess a verified Check Seal, and the recipient can trust the supplier to send quality product data. Also, suppliers can assure the delivery of quality models within the confines of the design standard to their partners and customers.
• Check files from other CAD software: CATIA users often use various CAD systems that create a problem in data translation and calls for redesign and rework. Q-Checker helps to check errors and make necessary adjustments for smooth data transfer.

Advantages of Q-Checker:

• Saves Time spent on Corrections: Correcting the errors and mistakes in CAD models is not only takes consuming but also requires human labor and materials. The need for these corrections is eliminated by using Q-Checker. It identifies and repairs critical errors in product design that would be indistinct to the human eye.
• Encourage Design Reuse: Most designers prefer rebuilding a new model instead of using an existing one as model errors are common with traditional designs. However, with Q-checker, the final designs are error-free, encouraging designers to reuse model designs that save the time of designers as starting from scratch on a new model is time-consuming.
• Pro-active Learning: Using Q-Checker is like having the experience and advice of experts at hand that is especially helpful for new and learning designers. It helps these new designers going through the learning curve with the ability to meet the CAD standards expected by the customers.