Answers for industry. NX Check-Mate Knowledge-driven validation enhances product development processes and quality

Benefits Summary and practices. The result is higher quality • Reduces costs related to Knowledge-driven product validation is an products developed more quickly and at engineering change orders, innovative approach that encompasses the lower cost. warranty repairs and effective capture, management and re-use Traditional validation tools don’t adequately product recalls of knowledge within your company, address product and process complexities allowing you to significantly improve your • Ensures adherence to that designers face daily. Check-Mate uses products and processes. Based on NX™ company standards the embedded knowledge technology in NX software’s Knowledge Fusion technology, to capture standard processes and design • Eliminates costly and time- NX Check-Mate from Siemens PLM Software methods, and re-use them in automated consuming downstream provides an automated, customizable tool checks to improve quality and consistency. corrections that helps companies proactively improve Companies can add and update checking product quality. • Identifies noncompliance to rules at any stage of product development company standards Next-generation validation to expand the company knowledge base NX Check-Mate simplifies the work of and achieve continuous improvement. • Alerts designers to design engineers by automatically ensuring inconsistencies in CAD that computer-aided design (CAD) data model geometry and product designs adhere to industry, • Facilitates validation as an customer or company standards. With con- automatic practice rather tinuous monitoring of developing designs, than an afterthought Check-Mate helps engineering professionals produce their deliverables right the first time. The organization can use Check-Mate to set up customized design checking and manage outsourced projects so that they comply with their organization’s standards

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Features • Validation integrated with NX using HD3D user interface • Model quality checking • Assembly, file and drawing checking • Extensive library of standard checks • Authoring capabilities for custom checks • HTML-based reporting dashboard • Interactive or batch mode checking • Full integration with Teamcenter Enhancing product data quality Creating a sense of urgency NX addresses file, geometry, assembly Check-Mate uses the latest NX HD3D tool and drawing data quality with Check-Mate. set to provide a unique user experience It checks CAD files and models for confor- that aligns with the Siemens PLM mance to company, industry or customer Software’s HD-PLM corporate strategy. The standards. Noncompliance to company enhanced graphical feedback provided by standards can hinder data sharing and sup- HD3D tags and tool tips, tiles, structure plier collaboration. Inconsistencies in CAD trees and flow lists – complemented by cus- model geometry can cause downstream tomizable, drill-down information provided manufacturing problems. Check-Mate by Info View, fully in context with the oper- includes tools for creating knowledge- ation taking place – guides the Check-Mate based rules and profiles. A customizable user seamlessly through their validation reporting dashboard provides engineering workflow. The visual impact of HD3D tags data quality metrics to engineers and man- identifying critical errors helps create a agement that supports company-wide sense of urgency to address the issues as quality and continuous improvement soon as possible. The HD3D style result initiatives. output can be organized and filtered to align with workflow and improve clarity. Automating validation Dynamic interaction with graphical results Check-Mate’s automated validation elimi- (nodes and tags) using the mouse buttons nates manual, error-prone processes that enables the user to automatically zoom to a require designers to remember standards, problem area and open an application to requirements and validation procedures. address the issue. As a result, validation is Design validation can be consistently per- intuitive, interactive and effective. formed more easily and often. Enabling designers to discover problems earlier in the product development process means that they can make changes when costs are more manageable. NX

Standard and custom checks Batch checking Check-Mate provides many out-of-the-box Check-Mate can be run interactively in a checks. These checks can have built-in NX user session or in batch mode from a parameters that allow them to be tailored command line or a script. This means that to the organization’s specific industry and hundreds of parts can be validated without product requirements. In addition, Check- any human interaction. The results can Mate Author gives your organization the be examined using the reporting tools flexibility to convert your knowledge of provided with the product. Batch checking industry-specific, corporate or customer can also be used to preprocess the quality standards into checks that are incorporated of any parts that have been received from within the validation process. With these suppliers without the designer having to checks, quality requirements are clearly load them into an interactive session. defined and documented, resulting in (Only pre-checked parts are used, assuring unambiguous communication and fewer that standards and quality measures have interpretation errors throughout product been met). development. Integrating with Teamcenter Quality monitoring and When Check-Mate is run from NX there is reporting dashboard an option to save the generated results to Collecting data is not time well spent Teamcenter® software, a collaborative unless you are able to view and examine product development management (cPDM) the information so that it can be used to solution, also from Siemens PLM Software, improve methodologies. The results from which is the hub of the company’s product Check-Mate can be used to identify training lifecycle management (PLM) architecture. needs, evaluate suppliers’ performance or The results saved in Teamcenter can be recognize improvement opportunities. chosen as the source to be displayed in NX. Check-Mate provides a set of reporting Check-Mate profiles (the way that a chosen tools that allow you to turn the data col- set of checks is grouped together and lected into dashboard information, useable stored) can be stored and accessed from for assessing the progress of your quality Teamcenter. Check-Mate can also be run Contact initiatives. Dashboard reports can be tai- from within Teamcenter using the valida- Siemens Industry Software lored to enable you to view quality metrics tion manager. The results can be viewed Americas +1 314-264-8499 data in various formats, including tables, inside Teamcenter and used to initiate Europe +44 (0) 1276 413200 charts or graphs. Tailored reports can then workflows. Asia-Pacific +852 2230 3308 be exported to web-ready HTML for distri- bution throughout the organization. www.siemens.com/plm

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