How to save costs with 3D search engines

Written by Dr. Christian Klimmek | 02. Mar 2023

Cost savings from enterprise 3D search engines:
What decision-makers should know.

Can modern search technologies and business intelligence make my company more successful?
This is a question that companies often ask themselves because many things are unclear and can be firmly substantiated with numerical data facts. What is it actually? What can search technology do for a company?
We will give you a brief insight into the benefits and advantages of 3D search technology, a software solution with which many companies and industry leaders are already saving costs.


Can geometric similarity search make my business more successful?

As a parts manufacturer, toolmaker, job shop, plant manufacturer, special machine builder, machine builder, or as an industrial company in the automotive and automation sector, you will not want to miss SIMILIA once you have seen it, because SIMILIA is an effective component and assembly search for industrial companies.

A technology that defies many initial prejudices and can be integrated into all departments. Geometric similarity search offers advantages & benefits for every department.

SIMILIA is the software solution that uses "geometric search" not only to uncover savings potential in the past but also to secure it for the future.

Search functions, finding metadata, finding similar parts, part overlay for better and faster visual evaluation, and sub-area search in the entire 3D dataset are amazing features of this sophisticated technology.

 

What you can implement with the geometric similarity search?

Wouldn't it be useful to know that a similar or the same customer inquiry has existed in your company before?

With SIMILIA, you bring together existing know-how from all departments and use the experience of past customer projects and inquiries. This way, you increase the quality of your technical offers & calculations.

Advantages & benefits in sales and calculation

Wouldn't it be great to always have an overview of the entire data stock? To avoid duplication of work without having to structure your data?

Based on 2D & 3D designs, SIMILIA helps you find similar or identical models plus metadata. In this way, you increase the reuse of components and systematically reduce the variety of parts.

Wouldn't it be efficient to speed up manufacturing processes by reusing already validated workflows?

Find workflows, tools, or CNC programs with SIMILIA and use them for new orders. Start production processes faster and reduce setup times.

Wouldn't it be great to identify the same or similar items to bundle orders and reference prices?

Gain a 360-degree view of existing order and master data with SIMILIA. Use existing know-how to create inquiries and create an optimal negotiating position.

Keep track of your parts diversity and 3D models with SIMILIA. Minimize duplicates in your database.

Accelerate the creation of your offers & calculations with SIMILIA. Set yourself apart from your competition.

Combine the same or similar orders with SIMILIA. Realize purchasing advantages through economies of scale. Reference prices.

Reuse already validated data for your work preparation with SIMILIA. Reduce setup times in your production.

 

What kinds of things can you achieve with SIMILIA, the software solution for efficient 3D search?

  • Globally find all data and information in the company.
  • Find master data and attributes.
  • Find items, documents, parts & assemblies.
  • Avoid duplicates, multiple developments, and duplication of work.
  • Speed up product development.
  • Use data quickly regardless of the data source and location.

Conclusion

The geometric search, CAD part search, or geometric similarity search is a robust and very powerful method to quickly and easily find suitable parts and assemblies for reuse in large heterogeneous databases in industrial practice. The areas of application range from technical cost calculation in sales, design, and development to standardization and norming, mechanical processing CAM, quality assurance QA, work preparation, and equipment design to purchasing and procurement. It increases efficiency in practice in a very effective way. In conjunction with other methods such as clustering, automatic shape matching can be used for the clustering and automatic classification of CAD data.

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