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CATNEST

Drastic reduction of risk related to inaccurate material cost calculations; reduces supplier variation between estimate and actual costs from 25% to within 1-2%
Full associativity and regeneration enable a 70% productivity improvement in Engineering Efficiency to manage complex variations, as compared to non-CAAV5 products that suffer from process discontinuities
Process 50 times more quotes than manual calculations
More accurate scrap estimates for material rebates
The cheapest layout, and hence cost, based on manufacturing constraints as well as tooling costs
The CAA enabled CATNEST reduces Collaboration Lag (time to communicate a change and obtain feedback), and hence results in 50% less engineering changes, since the analysis is current with the geometry

Capitalizes on the seamless integration with native geometry in CATIA V5
Flexible setup - Optional pitch, coil width, and blank angle constraints to match available equipment and product requirements
Multiple Nesting layouts - Fully optimized one up, two up, and standard blank shape nesting layouts
Multi-Part Nesting - Two different parts that are manufactured together
Cost analysis - Accurate blank cost is calculated, accounting for the tooling costs
Interactive results - Sort results in an interactive spread sheet by material utilization, coil width, pitch, rotation angle and translation, including related nesting preview
All results are stored in the standard CATPart file for ease of PLM integration
User can edit nest layout with standard CATIA V5 tools
Analyses are fully associated with CATIA model
Analysis results automatically update to reflect current design whenever results are viewed
Zero risk of downstream misuse of out-of date analysis results

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