Tooling companies face fierce global competition and are looking to the tool design through production process to reduce tool cost, reduce tool design through manufacturing lead time, and improve product quality.

Toolmakers of all sizes are driven by “better-faster-cheaper” with emphasis on:

• Reducing job turn-around time
• Reducing tool cost
• Maintaining and improving product quality
• Teamwork efficiency and integration across organization and location boundaries

NX Tooling solutions from Siemens PLM Software can help companies reduce the time taken to produce tooling while meeting quality and cost objectives through industry specific software applications that:

• Are easy-to-use, automated and contain standard step-by-step process-based best practices
• Capture a customer’s know-how, process, standard parts within the system to help save time by as much as 30%
• Provide a single integrated CAD/CAM environment that manages product and process data
• Enable effective global and inter-disciplinary collaboration