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Digital Insights to Master Variation Across Your Organization
VariSight provides enterprise-level management of mechanical variation data, facilitating continuous improvement and optimization across the entire design and manufacturing process.
VariSight is an enterprise mechanical variation management solution that centralizes CETOL model data, exposes measurements/sensitivities/contributions for analytics, and connects with your PLM to keep designs and analyses in sync. It helps teams see the impact of tolerance changes, compare predicted vs. actual results, and maintain full traceability across models, revisions, requirements, and users.
VariSight Quick Facts
- Who it’s for: Design, manufacturing, and quality leaders who need enterprise-wide control and visibility over tolerance analysis and mechanical variation.
- What it does: Stores and manages CETOL model data; imports inspection results; exposes measurements, sensitivities, contributions, and quality metrics for analysis and reporting.
- Integrations: Syncs with PLM to track CAD version history/assembly usage, query new revisions, and sustain end-to-end traceability.
- Analytics & decisions: Evaluate tolerance changes over time, run what-if comparisons, and generate comprehensive reports/dashboards for optimization.
- Traceability & governance: Link measurements to requirements, see aggregated pass/fail status, and track user-specific contributions and work history.
- How to get started: Request a guided demo; pair with instructor-led onboarding and implementation services for enterprise rollout.
ENTERPRISE-LEVEL FEATURES
Streamlined Variation Management, Comprehensive Tolerance Analysis, & Advanced Insights for Decision-Making
Mechanical variation management helps minimize errors, optimize quality, and facilitate informed decision-making throughout the product development lifecycle. Without a comprehensive solution to store and expose variation elements, many organizations struggle to balance cost and quality.
VariSight is a comprehensive mechanical variation management solution, providing efficient storage and management of model data, exposing tolerance analysis elements for analytics, and seamlessly integrating with product lifecycle management (PLM) systems.
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Store and manage CETOL model data, improving accessibility and organization of critical product information.
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Expose tolerance analysis data like measurements, sensitivities, contributions, and quality metrics for comprehensive analytics.
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Facilitate in-depth studies and comparisons through advanced model interrogation, ensuring traceability and synchronization with CAD model revisions.
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Get robust traceability features, such as tracking user-specific contributions.
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Plan and track tolerance analysis progress, enabling systematic linking of CETOL measurements to system requirements for detailed reporting on both historical analysis models and their aggregated statuses over time.
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Report on requirements satisfied by measurements and their aggregated objective status (Pass/Fail) for improved quality control.
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Evaluate the impact of tolerance changes, graphically visualizing measurement quality metrics over time.
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Trace, search, and filter the work done on the tolerance model by a particular user or group of users.
ELEVATE PRECISION AND QUALITY
Enterprise-Wide Mechanical Variation Management for Optimal Design Control & Traceability
Our revolutionary mechanical variation management solution drives efficiency with data storage, analytics exposure, and PLM integration.
Effective Data Management
Store and expose CETOL model data and tolerance analysis elements for more informed decision-making and optimization of product designs and manufacturing processes.
Seamless PLM Integration
Integrate with PLM systems and synchronize CAD model information for accurate tracking of version history and assembly component usage to maintain consistency and reliability.
Advanced Reporting
Perform what-if studies to explore design alternatives, compare object versions, and generate comprehensive reports on the effects of mechanical variations, aggregated quality metrics, and quality metrics evolution over time, providing valuable insights for process optimization.
STREAMLINED ENTERPRISE-WIDE MECHANICAL VARIATION MANAGEMENT
Elevate Your Enterprise’s Mechanical Variation Management with Centralized Data Excellence
Empowering efficient mechanical variation management through comprehensive data storage, VariSight exposes tolerance analysis elements for analytics and advanced model interrogation.
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Track the progress of all the tolerance analysis work needed to ensure a large volume of requirements and objectives are satisfied.
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Identify which assemblies will be impacted, and how, if a tolerance on a part common to multiple assemblies is changed.
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Easily evaluate iterations of an analysis model to understand what changed as both the design and analysis models evolve and the predicted quality of the requirements change.
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Maintain traceability of the analysis models and corresponding results against the revisions of the CAD models in the PLM system.
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Query the PLM system to identify when new revisions of a referenced model are available.
VariSight FAQs
What is VariSight?
VariSight is a comprehensive mechanical variation management platform that stores CETOL model data, integrates with PLM, and exposes tolerance analysis elements (measurements, sensitivities, contributions, quality metrics) for analytics and reporting.
How does VariSight integrate with PLM and CAD?
It synchronizes CAD model information via PLM to track version history and component usage, maintains traceability against CAD revisions, and lets teams query when new model revisions are available.
Can we import inspection results?
Yes. Inspection results can be imported and used in tolerance studies to compare predicted versus actual outcomes, replacing estimated distributions where appropriate.
What analysis data does VariSight expose?
Measurements, sensitivities, contributions, and quality metrics—supporting in-depth studies, comparisons, dashboards, and reporting.
How does VariSight help with change management?
You can evaluate the impact of tolerance changes over time, understand how assemblies are affected when a common part tolerance changes, and compare iterations as design and analysis evolve.
What about requirements and quality reporting?
VariSight links CETOL measurements to requirements and reports aggregated objective status (e.g., pass/fail) for robust quality control and auditability.
Can we track who did what?
Yes, traceability includes user-specific contribution tracking plus search and filtering by user or group across the tolerance model.
How do we roll it out?
Engage a sales-led demo, then leverage instructor-led training and enterprise implementation services for deployment, training structure, and process improvement.
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Our Full Suite of Software Products
Improve your products through mechanical variation management.
Expert-Led Product Training
VariSight utilizes instructor-led training that ensures smooth onboarding, while guaranteeing each user enjoys the most effective learning environment. Sigmetrix instructors have many years of real-world experience with variation analysis, functional design approaches, applying geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, and product engineering concepts through practical usage in various industries.
Enterprise-Wide Implementation Services
VariSight users get access to our enterprise-wide implementation services, focused on your mechanical variation management software implementation, deployment plan, training structure, and process improvement. We’ll work with you to determine how your product development process is performing, where inefficiencies exist today, how your tolerance analysis usage is impacting product quality, and much more.
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