Enforce Weight & Balance targets throughout design phases and monitor the convergence process to deliver performant innovative products
Developing performant and sustainable products involves a precise management of the Weight & Balance process from the very beginning of the product definition up to to detailed design and manufacturing.
By defining upfront Weight & Balance targets (Weight, center of gravity, inertia matrix), the Weight & Balance Manager role ensures that teams strive to find innovative ways to improve products. Whatever the size of the product definition, it will provide accurate and up to date analytics giving insights on the weight contributions of each module and revealing in 3D the major ones. Managers monitor weight metrics and follow-up trend of the weight product maturity, considering and comparing any configuration or design alternatives.
External calculations of the weight metrics which have been conventionally performed on paper and Excel, are now fully automated and integrated into the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
Benefits
Enforce Weight & Balance targets to drive design performance and innovation
Digital continuity within the Virtual Twin between Design activities and automated calculations of the weight, the center of gravity and the inertia matrix
Traceable and reliable Weight & Balance assessment throughout the design process from both 3DDashboard and Native Applications
Make informed decisions between various alternatives in all design phases
Monitor Weight & Balance metrics evolution and forecast project convergence
Investigate Risks & Opportunities prediction for a better understanding of metrics evolution
Data science experience approach to reveal and analyze Weight metrics from a sub component up to the full engineering definition
Highlights
Set Weight & Balance targets for a configured product at root level and cascade down to its children from a multi-list view consistently
Define and update the weight values of a 3D product definition for the full Weight and balance lifecycle (Estimated, Computed, Declared, Measured)
Assess the weight, the center of gravity and the inertia matrix based on best so far definition for any product configuration
Reveal in 3D and analyze the weight contribution by drilling down the structure
Understand and compare alternatives for decision making
Collaborate with all stakeholders in respect of the weight performance targets with real time access
Monitor weight metrics evolution all along the timeline to check dynamic convergence
Forecast assessments based on captured metrics anticipations
Support multi CAD Collaboration with weight values inherited from CATIA V5 and SOLIDWORKS
