Design Automation

Design Automation is an intent-based engineering approach, which combines the knowledge of various engineering verticals to help reduce errors and the time spent on repetitive, tedious tasks in a design process. Through design automation, one can introduce more details into the creation process, while simultaneously saving a considerable amount of time.

The real-time applications of automation are immense, allowing detailed customization and precision like never before. At CEC, this productivity is enhanced by allowing redundant tasks to be automated using the client’s engineering logic, enabling a swift and stable increase in optimization.

Our automation systems can be designed to run on any CAD platform, which can also be integrated with your ERP system. This, in turn, reduces the number of man-hours and increases machine-hours instead. The automation makes it friendly for usage by any person, including those who do not have a technical understanding of the operating system.

Concept Design

A vital phase of the design process, concept design is the first step towards the actualization of a product. A vital step in the process of making the product, it begins by confirming the product requirements for successful completion and functioning, and ends with realizing a larger, innovative picture.

Concept design is a vital step through which the design and objective of a product are better understood. In this step of the process, engineers work towards accentuating the goal of the design, in order to maximize the potential output and functioning as intended.

Usually paired with rapid prototyping, this process is meant to find solutions to any problems that may arise in the product’s manufacturing, functioning or intended usage. It even maps out the potential interaction with the product’s design, thereby enabling the smoothest possible experience with the final product.

Design Validation

Design Validation is a technical term for the process of running a design simulation, where the intended product performance is tested. This process of verifying the design by methods of design analysis determines how smoothly a basic unit of the product will function.

The step of design validation is key to identifying and solving potential problems as early in the course of development as possible.

Simulations like these help in maintaining the timeline and budget of the enterprise by being time and cost-efficient, and preventing problems from occurring later in the product development cycle.

Rapid Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping is the stage of product development that involves the quick physical production of a part of the basic design (what one may consider a mock-up), or the complete design itself, developed using Computer-Aided Design (CAD).

The much-coveted 3D printing technology receives and reads the data from CAD software, and this allows each facet of the designed product to be accurately recreated, down to the inch. Additionally, rapid-prototyping reduces and eliminates all potential errors in the final product and its risks, making this a time-efficient step.

Value Engineering

A systematic process of providing the least expensive alternatives with the highest possible value and function is known as value engineering. This exercise in quality, output and economical evaluation is a way to explore less expensive alternatives to aspects of the product while maintaining its necessary functions and optimizing product performance.

This process also enables the engineering team to perform error reduction, and, in extreme cases, redesign it for an accurate, and simpler back-end operation with a potentially lower production cost.

A key benefit to value engineering is that through this process, the important functions and aspects of a product get prioritized. If done successfully, it is implemented from the beginning of the project, making it a highly time-efficient activity.

All in all, this step is the meeting ground between the client’s expectations and the product’s deliverables, told through the lens of costing and effectiveness.

Manufacturing Process Design

Manufacturing Process Design is the discernable and measurable way of implementing the client’s vision of the product. It is the mechanism that optimizes the process behind the production of any product.

MPD as a practice concentrates on steps required to produce a piece and the technology behind its manufacturing. By taking into account the mechanisms behind the production, it focuses on the steps going into the product’s actualization while taking into account real-time factors such as the number required.

Certain aspects of manufacturing process design include designing the product in a way that allows it to be easy and cost-efficient to manufacture.

Integrated Engineering Systems

IES allows engineers to take a combination-based approach to product development through multiple streams and disciplines of engineering.

Enhancing creativity and solution conceptualization, Integrated Engineering Systems seek to make the operating system and course of development easier for the client, as well as the engineers involved.

An excellent benefit to IES is the advancement and use of automated systems, which, upon integration with the engineering systems, can receive client input that gets directly conveyed to the manufacturing team. A major advantage is its easy usability by people without technical knowledge of the mechanism or the operating system.

Design Data Management

Design Data Management which deals with the practice of collecting, storing, and using data obtained in a safe and efficient manner. It is also a cost-efficient undertaking when optimized and designed appropriately. Design Data Management can even be tailored to fit your organization’s needs and working hierarchy.

Through DDM, clients gain the advantage of managing their data and processes at one central location, making it a convenient undertaking. By connecting other teams with your own, it makes communication a centralized concept. Softwares through DDM additionally enable one to organize product-related data, track progress, collaborate, manage change requests, and produce Bills of Materials.

Owing to its centralization, it even makes it highly applicable for routine tasks like knowledge transfer. With this, it opens a channel for paperless communication while simultaneously keeping each individual in the loop by seamless revision updates.