The COST ADVANTAGE is an expert Design for Manufacturability (DFM) tool which provides cost and producibility feedback as a design evolves. It includes the ability to customize Cognition-supplied knowledge bases (Assembly, Injection Molding, Machining, etc.) and to develop new knowledge bases for proprietary manufacturing processes. It can import design features (hole, slot, flange, rib, etc.) from feature-based solid modelers in order to estimate the manufacturing costs of designs. Cognition's MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE II passes design features directly to the COST ADVANTAGE via a real time connection so that design engineers get immediate feedback on the cost impact of their design decisions.
Ralph Gifford
VP, Marketing
Cognition Corporation
209 Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730-1406
USA
781-271-9300
781-271-0813 (fax)
ralph@ci.com
For applications in related solution areas, see the following indices:
Computer Aided Modeling,
Concurrent Engineering,
Decision Support,
Design Optimization,
Industrial Process Analysis,
Manufacturing Simulation & Optimization, the developer index for Cognition Corporation
and the product category index for Mechanical CAD/Mechanical CAM.