CAD Engineering Essentials

Unleashing the full functionality of 3D CAD to deliver engineering benefits to small manufacturers, typically enjoyed by larger firms.

Step-change improvements to all your engineering business teams, from design, CAM, production and beyond... 

 

Welcome to CAD Engineering Essentials – a straight talking guide written to deliver step-change improvements to your engineering business, by unleashing the power of Computer Aided Design. The focus is very much on results – bringing full CAD Engineering benefits to small manufacturing businesses. OK, so who is this for? Importantly, could you benefit?

• Do you want to get more out of your 3D CAD software by doing what the best performing engineers and manufacturers do?

• Maybe you’ve wanted to get into this for a while and are considering implementing 3D CAD, perhaps making the leap from 2D?

• Alternatively, do you want to benefit by fully exploiting 3D data in other areas like CAM, tooling and inspection or perhaps 3D Printing

CAD Engineering Essentials perfectly compliments fresh CAD skills you get through training by delivering full benefits from a business, as well as a personal perspective.

Larger engineering businesses have been reaping the benefits of CAD and CAM for years, often investing significantly, before seeing a return over and above what they expected. Now with the cost of computing plummeting, CAD training widely accessible and CAD and CAM software far more intuitive and user-friendly, the time has never been better for small manufacturers to modernise, professionalise and reap big benefits for their development and production activities. CAD Engineering has the power to help you deliver superior quality, better functioning products to market, faster.

For the individual engineer, they are quite simply some of the most sought after skills in industry. CAD expertise does wonders for your employability.

The information here perfectly compliments traditional CAD training sources, by fully embedding and exploiting the technology for the good of the business.

Here’s how you can get involved….

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CAD Engineering Principles

• CAD Engineering for small manufacturers: Why it’s Commercially Essential

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The Benefits of 3D CAD and Digital Engineering: Full integration in the Product Development and Manufacturing Process

• Business Benefits: Commercial Advantages and Productivity increases

• Business Benefits: Concept Design and Product Development advantages

• Business Benefits: Specialist Detail Design, Analysis and Simulation

• Business Benefits: Manufacturing and Production Engineering advantages

• Business Benefits: Technical Illustrations, Marketing Publications and Manuals for Servicing, Maintenance and Aftersales

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It’s got to be right for the business

• Senior Management Backing and Alignment to Business Objectives

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Making the business case for 3D CAD

• Why 3D CAD? Justifying the Investment for Small Manufacturers: Key Business Drivers for Adopting 3D CAD

• Perceived Barriers - Why Small Manufacturers are Reluctant to Adopt 3D CAD?... and answers to show its definitely achievable for You

• The Importance of Tailoring the 3D CAD Justification to Your Specific Business: Quantify wherever Possible

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CAD Software Evaluation and Selection

• CAD Software Evaluation and Selection: Evaluation Considerations

• Researching and Selecting 3D CAD Software

• In-depth In-house CAD System Evaluation, Specific to Your Business

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3D CAD Implementation

• 3D CAD Implementation 1: Management support, fitting it into your product development process, cultural change and staff buy-in

• 3D CAD Implementation 2: Draw heavily on your CAD supplier’s expertise, prepare your IT system requirements

• 3D CAD Implementation 3: Training - rapidly embedding core CAD skills in your business

• 3D CAD Implementation 4: Pilot projects, standardising for productivity gains and rolling 3D CAD out more broadly throughout the business

• 3D CAD Implementation 5: The importance of reviewing the CAD implementation, overcoming hurdles and challenges

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3D Printing (Additive Manufacturing)

• 3D Printing (Additive Manufacturing): Explanation and Business Advantages

• Designing for 3D Printing – Hints and Tips for Great Parts

• Different 3D Printing Processes & Technologies

• 3D Printing Bureau Services: Outsourcing to Experts inc Directory

• 3D Printing Materials

• Metal 3D Printing Industrial Examples: Strictly for Industry

• 3D Printing Jigs, Fixtures, Gauges and Manufacturing Tools 

• 3D Printing Industry Trends: What everybody else is doing

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Making it happen: CAD Engineering Action Plan

• Making it happen: CAD Engineering Action Plan 1

• Making it happen: CAD Engineering Action Plan 2

• Making it happen: CAD Engineering Action Plan 3

• Making it happen: CAD Engineering Action Plan 4

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3D CAD Product Development Lifecycle Benefits: (Courtesy of Siemens NX) 

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