Considering the rapid growth of both amount and value captured in 3D CAD data, most manufacturers feel the need to improve the re-use of their data and preserve corporate knowledge. A more efficient product development process is a tempting goal as such, but the holy grail would be if this re-use could act as a catalyst to further optimize the entire business process. From design via purchasing and manufacturing up to warehouse management. How could we optimize our entire process whilst minimizing cost and risk?

After realizing that organizations are spending considerable time and effort on repetitive and often even identical design tasks Knowledge Concepts developed an application to dramatically save engineering hours. By offering easy access to all parts and assemblies ever made it now is simple for engineers to re-use existing work. Users can now by taking the easiest way seriously reduce cost and time in the engineerings fase plus in the process clean up existing data and processes. This re-use and clean-up of engineering data can be used as a catalyst to further optimize procurement and warehouse management.