How to prepare product data for Industry 4.0

This year the focus is on the use of the Geometric Similarity Search GEOsearch by CADENAS, PURCHINEERING and Industry 4.0 in the engineering sector. In addition, the planned features in the new CADENAS PARTsolutions Version 12 will be presented.

The Best Practice PARTsolutions presentations will offer the following:
Peter Zander of KUKA Systems will report on the optimised SAP procurement process with the Geometric Similarity Search GEOsearch by CADENAS and also go into the optimised product development process.

Last year’s winner of the German Standard Parts Awards (Deutscher Normteile Award) Jakob Prechtl, CEO of Prechtl Engineering, will go into detail about his project 'Transportable OP Microscope for Developing Countries' and talk about the latest status and the significance of standard parts for cost-conscious engineering.

Tobias Wild will explain the reasons the Swiss company Stadler Bussnang had for using PARTsolutions for Stadler Rail. He was the head of and was responsible for introducing the project.

The WARR Hyperloop Team won the Competition II SpaceX Hyperloop Challenge in 2017 with their developed Pod. As sponsor, CADENAS provided PARTsolutions licenses to optimise project development. Catriona Bruce will report on that in her lecture.

Sergio Salsedo of Focus PLM and Luca Borghi of CADENAS Italiana will explain how PURCHINEERING 2.0, integrated into the ARAS Innovator, and the function of intelligent finding for parts increase the rate of reuse, while minimising duplicate parts.

Olaf Hilla of WABCO will give a talk about the implementation of the Geometric Similarity Search GEOsearch by CADENAS in the company’s procedural landscape and will explain the managing of special parts and the reuse of parts in the WABCO product development process.

As every year, the Head of Software Development at CADENAS, Frank Epple’s lecture is highly anticipated. He will give engineers and purchasers exclusive insights into the planned features of Version 12 of the Strategic Parts Management PARTsolutions.

Optimised user experience and increasing sales
During the Best Practice lectures of the Industry Forum, component manufacturers will learn how they can take full advantage of the marketing potential of their products with Electronic CAD Product Catalogues and further optimise it.

The Best Practice eCATALOGsolutions offer the following:
Bruce Hamper of Power Jacks will explain how customers can speed up their product development and selection of CAD data with CADENAS solutions, for example by means of the newly introduced CAD Product Configurator.

Axel Weber of Otto Ganter will explain during his talk why the Electronic Product Catalogue is best suited as an efficient marketing tool and as a means for maximum customer service, e.g. with dynamic product dimensioning.

The building kit 'Modular Assembly Automation' by SCHUNK was digitalised as a Product Configurator by CADENAS. Marcel Nagel will talk about how this configurator is used and the advantages the company benefits received.

Steven Gilliom, Director for Information Technology at PHD, will explain why the Electronic Product Catalogue at PHD was only the beginning and how, 25 years later, the company prepares its CAD for the future and provides its customers even more service with eCATALOGsolutions.

Lars Fredenlund, CEO of coBuilder will demonstrate that data-supported BIM is only as complicated or simple as you wish it to be. In addition, he will explain the advantages of enriching data with product information such as kinematics, possible collisions, etc. through CADENAS and the provision of coBuilder product data templates.

Anthea Waidele of Afag Automation will talk about how digitalisation with photo-realistically rendered product images, based on the Electronic Product Catalogue eCATALOGsolutions, is implemented.

Robert Weitlaner of HELLA Sonnen- und Wetterschutztechnik, from the department of Research and Development, will talk about the need and motivation to provide 2D & 3D Multi BIM CAD data for optimum customer service in sun protection planning.

CADENAS will be represented by Stefan Waldner. He will reveal what engineers can look forward to with the new functions and extensions of the 3D CAD model download portal PARTcommunity Version 8.0.

Application-oriented workshops with experts
In addition to the numerous lectures, the 19th CADENAS Industry Forum will offer three application-oriented workshops on the use of the CADENAS software solutions eCATALOGsolutions and PARTsolutions in daily working life.

This year, interested parties can expect the topic of PARTprocurement. Here they will learn how component manufacturers can make missing parts information available in a clever and interactive way. Visitors can also attend workshops on intelligent finding methods during the Industry Forum as well as on the topic of PURCHINEERING with PLM Synchro. PURCHINEERING is a consistent solution that optimises cooperation and communication between engineering and purchasing.

Awarding the best catalogues with the 'Golden Catalogue Seal'
CADENAS continuously honours Electronic Product Catalogues based on the eCATALOGsolutions technology with the quality seal of gold, silver and bronze. Within the Industry Forum, catalogues of component manufacturers with the most extensive intelligent information will be honoured, such as dimensioning or integration of a Product Configurator to ensure consistently high quality of 3D CAD catalogues for engineers.

The international congress Industry Forum will also be accompanied by a trade exhibition and an evening event on 7th March 2018.