CAD automation boosts design efficiency by streamlining workflows, cutting lead times, enhancing collaboration, and ensuring quality in mold design.
CAD automation for greater design efficiency
Reduce lead times and improve process stability while maintaining control over quality and delivery.
By analyzing your mold design processes, we can work together to identify where design tasks can be simplified, collaboration can be improved, and lead times can be shortened without disrupting your existing workflows.
Problem
How valuable time, process stability, and profits can be lost
Inefficient workflows and disconnected processes can increase costs, extend lead times, and create unnecessary risk throughout the mold development process.
Longer cycle times and higher production costs
Cooling channels that are not optimally designed can increase cycle times, which in turn reduces output and raises part costs.
Part distortion and springback
Dimensional deviations can lead to repeated adjustments, engineering rework, and unnecessary communication cycles.
Lack of data continuity between CAD and CAM
Limited associativity between systems creates opportunities for errors, redundant tasks, and data inconsistencies.
Manual verification processes
Collisions and other major design issues are often discovered late in the process, disrupting schedules and demanding extra engineering effort.
Increasing cost pressure
Manufacturers are expected to improve performance while managing increasing product complexity and tighter delivery schedules.
Solution
Expand your possibilities with seamless processes
- Replacing endless iterations with structured workflows
- Implement design changes without disrupting downstream processes
- Reliable data for seamless transitions
- Improve process consistency with robust associativity and easy access to a single source of up-to-date project data
- Better collaboration between design and manufacturing
MOLD DESIGN
Cimatron MOLD: quickly and efficiently design molds of any size and complexity
Part Analysis
Evaluate draft angles, check for undercuts, and orient parts to optimize core and cavity separation
Parting design
Accelerate the generation of parting lines and parting surfaces
Cavity and core
Automatically generate a mold cavity with shrinkage allowance and integrated standard components
Cooling system design
Easily place waterlines, baffles, and other components, and automatically check for proximity and interference
Documentation and collaboration
Easily create and share drawings, BOMs, and important design and production data
Cimatron as an integrated mold design solution
Cimatron improves process continuity and helps manage design changes with an integrated approach to mold design and manufacturing.
Inefficient workflows and unstable processes waste time, reduce margins, and undermine performance.
CAD, CAM, and electrode design from a single data source
Reduce handoffs, eliminate unnecessary interfaces, and minimize process inefficiencies.
Hybrid CAD for maximum flexibility
Combine parametric and direct modeling techniques to support different design requirements and engineering workflows.
Parametric logic for design reuse and change management
Implement structured modifications without introducing uncontrolled downstream changes.
Reduced verification and coordination effort
Identify collisions earlier and improve process handoffs to reduce engineering overhead.
Are you ready?
Process analysis can be especially valuable if you:
1. Manage design changes throughout mold projects
2. Face challenges related to cycle time, part distortion, or quality
3. Use CAD, CAM, CAE, and MES systems, but lack true process continuity
4. Want to establish a shared data foundation between engineering and manufacturing
This analysis helps identify inefficiencies and make better decisions to improve performance.