Design for Manufacturing with Delmia

Ari-Pekka Pietilä from Nokia explains in Delmia World News how Nokia is using Delmia Digital Manufacturing in maunfacturing and assembly process planning

Delfoi has been helping Nokia to develop the solution together with Delmia. Delfoi has also been responsible of customization and development of training material for global roll-out.

Challenge

Before implementing DELMIA, Nokia had two major challenges. The first was to reduce the data conversion work required to send a CATIA part data to a process study tool. Nokia was finding that the assembly study necessitated for products containing many parts required a great deal of time for data conversion, leaving little room for “real” design activities. The second challenge was to improve the creation of work instructions, as well as the speed with which documents could be updated to reflect design change.

DELMIA implementation and utilization

In order to solve these issues, Nokia implemented DELMIA DPM Assembly at the beginning of 2006.

As a result, DELMIA products are currently used for DFM assembly study, concept design of final assembly work, creation of assembly work processes and creation of work instructions.

Nokia has found that DELMIA enables digital mockup review, reducing the number of physical prototypes, leading to time and cost reduction. “By better utilizing DELMIA, I think we will be able to largely reduce the creation of prototypes.” comments Ari-Pekka Pietilä.

Read the full article from here:

Delmia News nr.16 NOKIA.pdf (2.34 megabytes)