Strategi Engineering Design Solutions

KBE

What is KBE ?
Knowledge Based Engineering

KBE is a specialized / customized software wizard which runs on top of a 3D CAD Modelling software like NX, CREO, etc and in most of the cases it is a wizard to design range of similar products (like similarity in terms of it’s industry application, shape and geometry) and can be an intellectual property (IP) of a customer for their family of products. In case of series of similar products or variants, KBE can be developed and used as a “Product Configurator” also.

Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) is an engineering in product development technology wherein the knowledge of the engineered product and its design process is captured and embedded into a software system (known as KBE system) to use it for the design and development of similar new products. It is the product-specific generic engineering knowledge that is captured and represented as the product model within the KBE system (suite of KBE applications). These KBE applications are then used by the designers to generate a new but similar product design for a new set of input specifications. In fact, these KBE applications can be re-used again and again to generate many new but similar product designs.

Benefits - KBE

There are several case studies wherein KBE has helped Strategi’s customers in reducing cost and product development cycle time drastically achieving consistency in product quality, reuse of knowledge and improved integration of CAD systems. Below are the highlights :

  • KBE helps to capture  domain expertise / product knowledge in an  organization
  • KBE helps to reduces design cycle time (in most cases by at least 60 %)
  • KBE helps to improve the response time of an organization
  • KBE helps to analyze what-if scenarios in product design very quickly
  • KBE helps to capture history of products designed and  manufactured,  thereby enabling effective reuse
  • KBE allows designers to be more innovative, as it reduces the mundane tasks performed by them
  • KBE allows organizations to execute more business with higher profitability
  • KBE deliver automated output (3D CAD Models, Assemblies and Drawings) hence error-free design data for manufacturing and chances of rework are very less
How KBE works
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