Over the past 10 years, productivity from the manufacturing industry has increased 1.2% compared to 2.6% from the previous 7 years. But new emerging technology trends are disrupting the way engineering companies design, manufacture, and deliver products. There is a need for increased innovation to ensure that products are differentiated, allowing you and your teams to compete in an increasingly competitive environment.

In the past product design and manufacturing groups typically operated as separate, disconnected functions resulting in lots of late stage engineering changes, affecting product cost, quality and time to market. Once the design is completed and handed over to manufacturing, because of the standalone applications use by these departments, there is a need of data imports, translations, and conversions. Also, any changes required to design because of manufacturability issues would mean design and manufacturing need to repeat above process once again to finish up the production.

Integrated CAD/CAM offers a bridge between design and manufacturing teams and gives the user complete control over the whole design and manufacturing process. An integrated CAD/CAM environment is a critical factor in helping to ensure the users can benefit from solids-based, fully associative CNC machining, whether it's with native solid models or neutral file formats like IGES, STEP, etc. With a completely integrated solution users can make the design changes easily and toolpaths will automatically adapt themselves.