CREO (CAD SOFTWARE)

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Creo is the 3D CAD solution that helps you accelerate product innovation to build better products faster. Easy to learn, Creo uses a model-based approach to seamlessly take you from the earliest phases of product design to manufacturing, and beyond. Creo combines powerful, proven functionality with new technologies, including generative design, real-time simulation, advanced manufacturing, IIoT, and augmented reality. 

With every release, Creo introduces improvements to make design engineers more productive every day. Creo now supports multibody concepts for designs containing multiple sheet metal and regular bodies, allowing you to better design sheet metal parts in context. In addition, you can now transfer solid bodies from parts of an assembly into a single multibody part using the Shrink-wrap feature, making it easier and faster to work with your complex designs. Creo now features an enhanced enclosure volume feature, to optimize and calculate the minimum bounding box of your part or assembly for packaging optimization.

 New features and functionality 

Creo has improved cabling and ECAD-MCAD collaboration capabilities to power your circuitry and cabling designs.

Cabling tools for manipulation of locations have been improved. Locations can now be placed tangent to any Coordinate System axis and the “Remove Locations” tool has been completely overhauled for easier use. Placement of custom components and splices has been enhanced, and harness settings can now be changed during routing. Additionally, the cabling tree has been updated for greater visibility of harness structure and cabling entities.

ECAD capabilities have also been extended with the addition of Transparency Control, for improved visibility of PCB stack-up and overlapping ECAD layers.

Design engineers are finding applications of composite materials in more products than ever, and Creo 11 continues to expand composites design, simulation, and manufacturing capabilities. Creo has expanded functionality for transitions, laminate sections, and draping simulations. You can even use zone-based design to define and automatically build plies from zones. Manufacturing has been enhanced with extended ply boundaries, core sampling and the ability to export to leading laser projection systems.

Creo now gives you even more powerful model-based definition tools to provide greater clarity with less effort. Now you can easily organize your design data in simple tables that can be read by humans and machines, with both user-defined text, parameter callouts, and semantic references.

Creating MBD annotations for cylindrical features is quicker, and semantic query is now available for inheritance models. GD&T Advisor has been updated to support ISO 22081 standard for general tolerances, for combined simplified hole callouts and enriched definition for slab and slot features.

Creo includes new simulation-driven design capabilities, for better design ideation, guidance, and validation. Creo’s award-winning generative design has been improved with minimum feature size constraints, bearing load support and planar symmetry constraints.

Creo Simulation Live now includes conjugate heat transfer to enable heat transfer between solid geometry and fluid bodies, as well as expanded results for all types of CSL studies. And Creo Ansys Simulation also has transient structure analysis, which is used to determine the dynamic response of a structure with a time-dependent load.

As always, Creo has improvements for both additive and subtractive manufacturing. For additive manufacturing, you can now connect two or more lattices with different cell types on a single continuous lattice structure and adjust pore size control for stochastic lattices. In addition, Creo has also expanded 3MF STL export options.

For subtractive manufacturing, High-Speed Milling now features 4-Axis rotary milling, plus trajectory milling enhancements. And 4-Axis area turning user interface has been improved, too.

Industrial companies face pressing challenges that require IIoT solutions. To address a wide range of manufacturing, service, and engineering use cases, PTC has spent years innovating the ThingWorx IIoT platform.

From service to workforce efficiency and asset optimization, ThingWorx solves common challenges across different industries. 

Because building Industrial IoT solutions is often cited as a pain point, ThingWorx is designed to reduce these barriers. Cruise from pilots to enterprise-scale solutions, using pre-built applications and developer tools.

 Maximize your IIoT potential 

 ThingWorx simultaneously removes the technical barriers to IIoT implementation, while emphasizing practical solutions that quickly return value. 

Scale to new markets, improve throughput, and unlock new business models such as products as a service.

Get to market faster using a rich set of industrial IoT capabilities. Wrap and extend existing assets within your connected solution.

Leverage data from connected products and systems to increase productivity, lower cost, and increase efficiency.

Make product, service, and factory operations more secure and scalable. Improve service quality, reliability, and satisfaction.

Take control of your deployment options with on-premise, cloud, or a hybrid approach. Flexibly support any industrial use case.

Vuforia is a comprehensive, scalable enterprise AR platform. Our wide-ranging solution suite ensures that we can provide the right AR technology to every customer based on their business needs.  

Vuforia provides the fastest, easiest and most advanced AR content development solutions to help industrial enterprise customers address workforce challenges and meet business goals.

 Explore Vuforia enterprise AR suite offerings 

 Vuforia Studio 

 Vuforia Chalk 

 Vuforia Expert Capture 

 Vuforia Engine 

 Flexibility and efficiency combine to enable the development of 3D augmented reality instructions that improve worker safety, efficiency and agility 

Vuforia Studio can transform your existing CAD and IoT data into detailed augmented reality (AR) experiences that provide critical information to front-line workers when and where they need it most. Realize the value of 3D AR training, instructions and visualizations for:

• Increasing worker productivity and satisfaction
• Reducing the cost of errors, waste and accidents
• Improving customer experiences and competitive advantage

 Vuforia Studio is the best choice for augmented 3D training and instructions 

  PTC leads the industrial AR market, accelerating time-to-value for immersive, step-by-step 3D overlays and digital twins that empower front-line workers across the industrial enterprise. 

Repurpose existing 3D CAD data and animated sequences to build intuitive assembly, inspection, service and operating instructions.

Repurpose existing 3D CAD data and animated sequences to build intuitive assembly, inspection, service and operating instructions.

Efficiently integrate sensor and contextualized IoT data from the ThingWorx platform and enterprise system data. Inject AR experiences with actionable insights.

Distribute enterprise-wide AR content via a single viewer application on your preferred mobile device or headset (Realwear and HoloLens 1 & 2)

Leverage innovative tracking methods for faster target identification, precise digital overlays and placing 3D virtual products into real-world environments.

 Increase your workforce efficiency by capturing the knowledge of experts and leveraging 3D CAD to easily create, deliver, and scale interactive work instructions and AI-enhanced inspection 

 Empower your frontline workforce 

Vuforia Expert Capture is an easy-to-use SaaS AR solution designed to make frontline work more efficient. Vuforia Expert Capture enables companies to capture the knowledge of experts and leverage 3D CAD to easily create, deliver, and scale interactive work instructions and AI-enhanced inspection. Critical quality issues, inconsistencies, or improvement opportunities from the factory or the field can be captured in real time, then reviewed to improve products or processes:

• Improve knowledge transfer by offering an easy-to-learn solution to capture and share domain expertise on the job
• Accelerate digitization of work instructions by leveraging video captures and CAD-based AR instructions
• Improve quality and customer satisfaction with automated visual inspections using artificial intelligence to guide workers with AR overlays and warnings

 Easily create, deliver, and scale AR work instructions 

Provide employees with better information and visual guidance for the tasks they’re about to perform with clear comparisons and verification that the task is done—and done right.

AI-enhanced work instructions improve accuracy and reduce costs associated with scrap, rework, and recalls, saving industrial companies millions of dollars a year, and improving customer satisfaction.

Easily analyze the critical data and insights gathered at the front line to identify patterns and opportunities for improvement. 

Improve your new hires’ time to productivity with more effective digital training tactics and on-the-job AR-enabled guidance, reducing the costs of traditional onboarding methods.

 Bring your technicians and multiple experts together for real-time problem-solving and collaboration 

 Communicate. Collaborate. Get it done. 

 Discover augmented reality-based remote assistance and quickly scale problem-solving guidance, support, and expertise to your factory operations and service teams. Vuforia Chalk combines advanced AR collaboration tools with real-time video communications to connect a field technician with an expert so that they can both see and discuss the situation at hand. Technicians and experts can draw digital annotations on a mobile screen or desktop that accurately stick to 3D physical objects in the real world, allowing the expert to guide the technician through a process, step-by-step. 

Download the Vuforia Chalk mobile app from public app stores, or get started with the Chalk web app without installing or integrating any software. Make your first call the same day you download with minimal setup and training time.

Include up to five participants in a single Chalk session to resolve your frontline problems quickly, effectively, and remotely. Facilitate real-time collaboration across the enterprise by connecting multiple tiers of expert support over a shared view of the problem at hand.

Chalk marries Vuforia’s powerful computer vision and real-time audio/video into a single application, enabling experts and technicians to collaborate more effectively from remote locations. Bring together AR and “see-what-I-see” remote assistance to keep employees connected, even when they can’t be in the same place at the same time.

 Enable expert guidance anytime, anywhere 

Fix, repair, and resolve issues more quickly by enabling frontline workers with real-time AR support from your most experienced team members. Eliminate unnecessary travel costs and costs associated with repeat visits.

Reduce downtime and accelerate problem resolution by connecting your field technicians and customers to experts who can guide and mentor them through troubleshooting and repair processes.

Keep field technicians safe as they maintain hazardous machinery and work environments by enabling experts to mark up a technician’s live view with callouts pointing to specific details, dangers, or steps to take to avoid errors and accidents.

Reduce customer downtime by empowering your customers to resolve on-site issues themselves. Connect your customers directly with the expert help they need to troubleshoot and resolve issues, fast.

 More than one million developers have chosen the robust performance and development flexibility of Vuforia Engine for creating engaging, branded AR experiences 

 Vuforia Engine offers the advanced technology needed for companies to differentiate the way they sell and market. Build engaging 3D product demonstrations, interactive brand campaigns, or create applications for customers to view and personalize products in their own homes. Augmented reality connects people to products through experiences that drive revenue and brand recognition. 

Enable robust and precise AR experiences in a variety of environments with Vuforia Engine’s leading computer vision technology.

Create branded AR experiences for new or existing applications both natively and on leading development platforms.

Reach the largest possible audience with the widest range of supported AR devices, phones, and tablets across IOS, Android, and Windows 10.

Harness dynamic recognition that can target images, 3D objects, and environments to provide development flexibility.

 Acoustics Simulation

All product designers and engineers must consider the noise a product will generate as an increasingly important factor. This applies whether the product is designed to create noise, such as a hearing device or speaker, is intended to dampen noise such as a muffler, or has potential to create noise as an unexpected by-product through turbulence, friction or structural vibration.

Best-in-class companies are now bringing forward their assessment of a product’s acoustic performance, rather than run the risk of facing a costly build-and-test scenario later in the design stage. By utilising Ansys acoustics simulation techniques to analyse designs early in the design process with a virtual prototype, engineers can significantly reduce production lead times and avoid costly re-engineering processes.

Ansys VRXPERIENCE SOUND

With Ansys VRXPERIENCE Sound, you can listen to, analyze and design sound sources. Create immersive 3D soundscapes to enhance your product or your simulations based on recordings, CAE simulation outputs or your virtual reality (VR) environment. Acoustics analysis can be performed in several ways, either as a pure acoustic problem, or as a coupled vibro acoustic problem.

Sound Analysis and Sound Quality
VRXPERIENCE Sound offers a powerful suite of analysis tools focusing on sound perception. An intuitive graphic display of sounds and a one-click magnification control feature help create the perfect sound signature for your product. With the software, you can also set up psychoacoustic tests based on a listener panel, and obtain statistics about the real perception of your sounds. As a result, you can achieve and deliver the best sound.

You can also evaluate and improve the way a sound is perceived, by using tools based on time-frequency representations.

3D-Sound Playback Systems
VRXPERIENCE Sound uses state-of-the-art 3D recording and playback techniques that create high-precision reproductions of 3D sounds and original timbres in a predefined space. You will discover how sound perception maximizes immersion in a specific real or virtual place.

Interactive Audio Simulators
VRXPERIENCE Sound systems are specially designed to equip your simulators and VR platforms. Available for cars, aircraft and trains, they create realistic, interactive 3D soundscapes using real-time audio sound generation, which can be integrated with your simulators and platforms.

Engine Sound Design
VRXPERIENCE Sound provides the Active Sound Design (ASD) comprehensive solution for engine sound enhancement (ESE) for electric vehicles (EVs) and internal combustion engine (ICE) cars.

Listen to Mechanical and Fluids Simulations
With VRXPERIENCE Sound, you can listen to Ansys Mechanical, Ansys Fluent, Ansys LS-DYNA and Ansys Motion simulations, modify sounds to evaluate effects of level changes on components, and run a study on sound quality. To learn more about VREXPERIENCE Sound.

Define meaningful vibro-acoustic specifications, targets, and acceptance thresholds using Ansys Sound's powerful post-processing capabilities. Special tools are dedicated to E-Motor noise, aeroacoustics sources, virtual reality 3D sound, and more.

• Sound Analysis and Playback
• Psychoacoustics and Sound Quality
• Immersive Driving Simulator Sound
• E-motor sound optimization
• Harmonic Exploration
• Listening Tests for Sound Perception
• Engine Sound Design
• Multiphysics Acoustic CAE Sound Rendering
• High Accuracy Spatial Sound
• Active Sound Design for EV

 Ansys Fluent gives you more time to innovate and optimize product performance. Trust your simulation results with a software that has been extensively validated across a wide range of applications. With Ansys Fluent, you can create advanced physics models and analyze a variety of fluids phenomena—all in a customizable and intuitive space. 

Accelerate your design cycle with this powerful fluid simulation software. Ansys Fluent contains the best-in class physics models and can accurately and efficiently solve large , complex models.

• Task-Based Workflows
• Turbulence Modeling
• Single and Multiphase Flows
• Reduced Order Models
• Expressions
• Acoustics
• Combustion
• Shape Optimization
• Overset Mesh
• Conjugate Heat Transfer
• Fluid-Structure Interaction
• HPC