Getting Design and Manufacturing to work together productively can be a challenge. Manufacturing gets frustrated with designs that are not manufacturable. Design gets tired of a "can't do" attitude from Manufacturing.
Many companies design CAD models then "throw them over the wall" to manufacturing without much thought or planning.
Even if a design meets the design spec exactly and engineers develop innovative features, meet all targets for quality, and release the design to the manufacturing team ahead of schedule, it still may not prove successful unless it can be manufactured.
Productive collaboration between engineering and manufacturing means products are designed and manufactured more efficiently with fewer errors and bottlenecks along the way. That translates into time and money savings on every single project.
With SOLIDWORKS connected to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, everyone works off the same data and has immediate visibility into the entire product as it evolves. Engineers don't have to worry about someone forgetting to let them know about a change; they can see it in real-time. Everything is on a single platform, securely accessed from a web browser, so there is no more searching through emails, hunting through file servers, or checking different databases to find what you need.