Comments on: CADFind…ing what you can’t

By: john191

john191 — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:44:02 +0000

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By: Lars Christensen

Lars Christensen — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:32:41 +0000

Thank you Emma, those numbers makes a world of differents. I agree that I have never accounted a numbering system that worked as intended, and with you numbers even a bigger size company could be up and running in less than a month. I am actually going to forward this post to a friend of mind who I know in the past have been in this kinda of battle.
Thanks again Jeff and Emma.

By: JeffMirisola

JeffMirisola — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:39:15 +0000

Emma,
Thanks for answering Lars' question!

Jeff

By: Emma Curtis

Emma Curtis — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:31:16 +0000

1) Our batch process codes SW models at around 10-12000/day/pc but we would normally allow about a week to code 40,000 including all the optimization, testing etc. We have coded 40,000 simple 2D views in under 12 hours.
2) There is no naming convention that works completely effectively for all parts – one man's bush is another man's spacer. Obviously there are some parts that can be readily described by a few simple characteristics, for example fasteners or bearings, but for many less standard items, like brackets, only the geometry provides an unambiguous method of retrieval. In a recent example at a company that have over 48,000 laser cut sheet metal parts CADFind found that there were over 50 different part numbers for a single part. They reckon over 1/3rd of these parts are true duplicates and many more are so similar that they could be reused with minor modifications. Each new duplicate had been created because the designer could not find one of the (many) existing designs in a simple and straightforward way, despite having state of the art CAD, PDM and ERP systems available. CADFind has fixed that problem.

By: Jeff Mirisola

Jeff Mirisola — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:51:23 +0000

Glad you liked the post, Lars. Let’s see if someone from CADFind responds to your question. If not, I’ll shoot them an email and try to find out for you.

By: Lars Christensen

Lars Christensen — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:27:35 +0000

Interesting post, Jeff. Wonder how long it would take them to Catalog 40,000 parts compared to a company pulling up there socks and come up with a system of naming and sharing parts in a way that made you not even care if Larry came back from vacation or not.