LFE Improves Design and Communication with Product Development Process

By DE Editors

PTC (Needham, MA) announced that Loyalty Founder Enterprise Co., Ltd. (LFE; Taoyuan, Taiwan), a company involved in the metal and plastic injection molding industry, reduced its design cycle time by 40 percent using PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 and PTC Pro/INTRALINK 8.0.

Pro/ENGINEER helps companies develop detailed, intuitive, and realistic 3D product representations, transferring innovative ideas into successful products. Specifically, LFE complemented its new standardized design system with Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 to manage and eliminate data inconsistencies.

LFE needed a solution that could create a common working environment and methodologies to improve engineering efficiency. Prior to choosing PTC, LFE’s non-standardized designing process did not allow LFE’s engineers to effectively analyze key mold design elements. As a result, design errors were often not identified until the physical mold prototype was created, causing rework and development delays.

After deploying PTC solutions, LFE reduced its mold design cycle time by 40 percent and elevated overall design efficiency among its engineering teams by 20 percent. Pro/ENGINEER enabled LFE to decrease mold design change and BOM list development time. Pro/INTRALINK enabled centralized vaulting and revision control of Pro/ENGINEER models, relationships, and functionality for improved information security and accuracy.

For details, go to PTC or LFE.

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