Integration and Implementation of Computer-Aided Engineering and Related Manufacturing Capabilities into the Mechanical Product Development Process

Technologies to automate computer-aided drafting and computer-assisted N/C tape preparation are available and are beginning to be used widely to help reverse the alarming trends of declining productivity in many industrial economies. However, automating isolated tasks in today’s “build-and-test” product development process, while cost-effective, will not achieve significant time savings, productivity gains and/ or strategic benefits, as anticipated by most companies.