[FANDÁKOVÁ, BUČKO, ZÁBOVSKÁ, Volume 4, Issue 1: September 2018] ISSN: 1339-9470 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Computer-aided Design in Manufacturing Process Management Miriam Fandáková, Boris Bučko, Katarína Zábovská University Science Park, University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia
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[email protected] Abstract Computer-aided design (CAD) is powerful tool, which helps designers and constructors with the designs of new products in all areas of industrial manufacturing. CAD is one of many inputs of manufacturing process management (MPM). MPM defines “how” a product is to be produced. It is a summary of inputs which help by production. CAD is divided to 2D and 3D modeling. There are many free and paid software applications which can be used by designing a product. 3D CAD applications with ability to create both 3D and 2D designs are widely used among the designers. This article gives an overview over history of 2D and 3D CAD software and their division. Keywords: 2D CAD, 3D CAD, computer modelling. Introduction Nowadays, the biggest milestone of successful manufacturing plans required to produce the product. product placing on market is time reduction, MPM also entails giving early feedback from therefore the production of any product should be very quick. Customers are very impatient and market manufacturing to engineering based on preliminary is overloaded with similar products which differ in versions of the manufacturing processes. quality and design. It is up to manufacturing Additionally, the MPM process communicates with companies if they choose the way of quality and production systems (ERP/MES), delivering design attractive product, which leads to higher costs optimized routings, as well as manufacturing bills-of- of material and components and at the end to higher materials (mBOMs) and work instructions, including cost of final product.