Digital Fab is the basis for an integrated cooperation of product development and production. It supports a simultaneous product and production development, allows an early consideration of production requirements during the development phase and improves the fast feedback of experiences from production in development and planning.
This integration supports the main goals of the Digital Fab:
- Acceleration of design processes and increase of planning efficiency by automation of data and information search
- Standardization of methods and processes
- Avoidance of design errors by virtual start-up
- Reduction of development time, design time and production costs
- Shortening of process times
- Improvement of facility and process maturity
- Securing the ramp-up
- Monitoring and optimization of the production run