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Return On Investment (ROI)
Our process integration and design optimization software creates an efficient design environment that is infinitely superior to traditional design methods. The following sections explain how our ModelCenter suite of software improves the conceptual design process, reduces costs, and provides a quick return on investment.
Streamline Your Design Process
Our process integration suite of software allows you to automate your processes and work in a collaborative design environment. Phoenix customers reduce their design cycle times by integrating all of their design applications from different platforms and geographic locations into a dynamic automated process.
Boeing engineers located at 3 different sites implemented Phoenix software and succeeded in reducing an 8-hour process to 45 minutes. By implementing ModelCenter across their network, their design models can be shared anywhere within the organization.
Reduce Errors
Once your applications are integrated and linked in ModelCenter, manual data translation between codes is eliminated. Automating this step in the design process not only reduces errors, it saves time and ensures that your entire design team is working on the same standardized process.
According to GE Power Systems, "Time savings basically turns one analysis point from 8 hourse to 5 minutes... also eliminates human transfer error between analyses."
Improve Design Quality
A Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company paper entitled, "An Approach to Multidisciplinary Design, Analysis and Optimization for Rapid Conceptual Design" provides an excellent overview of the benefits of implementing Phoenix software to create an advanced design environment.
The paper describes that while the standard design approach requires multiple stages to run each trade study, the RCD design process is more efficient and productive within the integrated and automated ModelCenter environment. As illustrated in the chart to the left, the RCD approach requires additional setup time, but once completed, more trade studies can be performed in a shorter amount of time. As a result, engineers have more time to create an optimized design and build a better product.
Win More Business
The combination of benefits provided by Phoenix Integration software - streamlined design process, error reduction, and improved design quality - offers a competitive advantage when submitting bids for new contracts. ModelCenter's automated and efficient design process lets you do more in less time, therefore allowing you to submit a better proposal, increase your win rate, and ultimately provide you with a great return on your investment.
