Manage Mechanical Variation to Reach Peak Performance Across the Enterprise
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Create better products and processes with software that assists across the enterprise.
With Sigmetrix’s robust tolerance analysis and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing software solutions, your organization reaps the benefits across your many diverse teams.
Product Design
Better innovation, done faster.
Manufacturing
Precisely communicated design requirements create tighter manufacturing processes.
Quality
Easily manage variation for higher quality products.
Supplier Relations
Improve communication and reduce ambiguity around design specs.
Systems Engineering
Design effective processes across the MBE.
Sigmetrix Helps Many Industries Build Better Products
See how our software, consulting, and training enhances mechanical variation management in industries like medical device and pharma, aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer electronics, and many more.
Mechanical Variation Management Solutions for More Collaborative, Efficient Teams
Sigmetrix solutions help enterprises streamline their product development processes, improve product quality, and reduce manufacturing costs by managing mechanical variation. Here’s how our solutions help across various teams.
Product Design
- Perform detailed tolerance analysis to understand the impact of manufacturing variations on final products.
- Design components that are more robust and tolerant to variations.
- Ensure that designs comply with GD&T standards.
- Optimize designs early in the development cycle for reduced manufacturing issues and higher quality products.
- Avoid costly rework and iterations, saving both time and resources.
- Facilitate clearer communications between design, manufacturing, and quality teams.
- Get a common platform for discussing tolerance requirements, variations, and design intent.
Manufacturing
- Understand and manage variation in the manufacturing process.
- Improve process control, reduce defects, and enhance overall product quality.
- Optimize tolerances within the allowed range, ensuring that products can be consistently manufactured without compromising quality.
- Identify and address variation issues before manufacturing to rework, scrap, and production inefficiencies.
- Ensure manufacturing processes align with design specifications and GD&T standards.
- Make informed decisions about process adjustments and improvements to maintain consistent quality.
Quality and Inspection
- Verify products and components adhere to specified tolerances and GD&T standards.
- Anticipate potential issues and work with design and manufacturing teams to mitigate them early, enhancing product quality.
- Understand the impact of tolerances and variations on final products to identify potential sources of defects.
- Take proactive measures to minimize quality issues and defects, reducing the likelihood of product non-conformance.
- Optimize inspection processes with insights into critical areas that need closer examination based on tolerance and variation data.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the organization based on tolerance analysis.
- Get a common platform to discuss and resolve issues related to tolerances, variations, and quality concerns.
- Save time and increase inspection efficiency with insights into tolerances and variations that can inform potential sources of defects and warranty issues.
- Improve communication between inspection and upstream teams with a common platform for issue resolution.
Supply Chain Management
- Ensure suppliers understand the exact requirements for components and parts based on precise tolerance requirements and GD&T specifications.
- Get better alignment between design expectations and vendor capabilities.
- Reduce ambiguity and misinterpretation between your operation and your vendors.
- Communicate design intent, tolerance requirements, and variation considerations more effectively across the supply chain.
- Evaluate vendor components against specified tolerances and variations easier.
- More easily assess supplier performance and identify areas where improvements or adjustments are needed.
- Ensure supplied components meet the required quality standards and tolerances.
- Make the supply chain process more efficient with fewer disruptions by ensuring suppliers understand and meet the specified tolerances and GD&T standards.
Systems Engineering
- Understand how variations and tolerances affect the overall system performance when multiple components interact.
- Perform comprehensive tolerance analyses to assess the impact of variations on an entire system's functionality.
- Facilitate seamless integration and interoperability by ensuring component alignment within specified tolerances and compliance with GD&T standards.
- Manage and analyze requirements related to tolerances and variations to ensure the system's components meet the necessary tolerance specifications.
- Analyze potential variations and tolerance stack-ups within the system to identify and mitigate risks associated with manufacturing variations.
- Optimize tolerances and variations to achieve better system performance without compromising functionality or reliability.
HOW WE HELP
Better Products Through Mechanical Variation Management
Customized Training for the Entire MBE
Enjoy expert-led training on specific software, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, tolerance analysis, and more—all presented with your unique organization and diverse teams in mind. Our approach to training offers the necessary context for all critical groups in your organization to understand how, when, and why to use specific methodologies.
Mechanical Variation Management Consulting
Sigmetrix’s consulting services are designed to help our customers understand how mechanical variation impacts their designs, how best to document the functional limits of variation with ASME GD&T and ISO GPS, and how to improve processes and products while saving costs.
"We chose Sigmetrix because of their subject expertise and long history of successful mechanical engineering products."
Executive
Automotive Parts & Accessories Manufacturer