CAD Embedded Inspection Simulation for Supplier Data Consistency
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Solution Overview
Problem
The inconsistency in electronic verification and validation software systems used by product suppliers leads to anomalies in inspection data and geometry, hindering the accuracy of quality assurance and prolonging analysis and integration times, making it challenging for large purchasers to ensure consistent product quality.
Innovation Solution
A software system that provides technological synchronization and geometric associativity through the generation of DMIS-compliant CMM programs, EDI files, and embedded simulation routines within a CAD/CAM platform, enabling associative quality assurance processes, data management, and web-based reporting to standardize inspection and validation across the supplier chain.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If different electronic verification and validation software systems are used by product suppliers, then suppliers can perform quality inspection, but anomalies in inspection data and geometry occur, hindering accuracy
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal CAD/CAM platform that serves as a common technical foundation for all suppliers. This platform generates standardized DMIS-compliant CMM programs and EDI files that can be used across different inspection systems, eliminating the need for multiple specialized software systems while maintaining measurement accuracy through geometric associativity to the master product definition.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple types of output and different systems between numerous suppliers are used, then inspection can be performed across suppliers, but lengthy analysis and integration times occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges all inspection and validation activities into a single integrated CAD/CAM platform. By combining product definition, inspection planning, CMM programming, and data analysis into one geometrically associative system, the patent eliminates the need for separate software systems at each supplier, thereby dramatically reducing analysis and integration times across the supplier chain.
3Measurement precision
If standardized DMIS-compliant CMM programs and geometric associativity are implemented, then inspection accuracy and technological synchronization improve, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a standardized DMIS-compliant CMM program generation system as an intermediary between the CAD/CAM platform and various CMM machines. This intermediary layer translates the geometrically associative product definition into standardized inspection programs that can be executed on different CMM systems, thereby achieving high measurement precision without requiring each supplier to implement complex proprietary systems.
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AI summary
A software system including simulation routines embedded inside a computer aided drafting (CAD) platform. The routines simulate the inspection processes prior to the execution of the physical inspection process. The simulator works within the host CAD platform and drives a three dimensional probe through a numerically defined inspection path of inspection points and vectors with specified clearance geometry included.