Japan Factory Cuts Manufacturing Cycle Time Using PTC PDS

By DE Editors

PTC (Needham, MA) announced that Saito Die&Mold Factory, a Japanese mold manufacturer, has selected the PTC Product Development System, including Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill as their engineering and data management solutions to improve productivity and to transfer craftsmanship to the next generation of Saito engineers.

Saito Die&Mold Factory, a 30-employee mold manufacturer founded in 1955, is highly respected, particularly for their automotive part tooling and their exceptional craftsmanship developed throughout the company’s history.

The company deployed PTC’s Pro/ENGINEER 3D CAD software to integrate its mold-manufacturing expertise with PTC’s cutting-edge technology. Pro/ENGINEER has enabled Saito Die&Mold Factory to reduce its manufacturing cycle by more than 60 percent. Now engineers can exchange native Pro/ENGINEER data with their customers,  reducing the time for design changes from several days to a few hours. Also,  the precision of the cast parts is so high that no modification is necessary when the parts are assembled. These improvements in efficiency have helped Saito Die&Mold Factory shorten their time-to-market.

With Pro/ENGINEER, the amount of product data that users generate has increased; the deployment of PTC’s Windchill data-management solution has helped the team to better understand design concepts and to progress quickly, enabling them to start procurement processes early and reduce their overall design cycle. Windchill has also helped the Saito team improve its data-sharing environment for a seamless integration of manufacturing and customers, and also enabled the team to move to paperless manufacturing instructions and other documents.

In addition, the company now uses Windchill as a tool to capture the knowledge of its engineers and designers — enabling Saito to transfer its knowledge to its next-generation engineers.

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Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.