Engineering and Business Benefits
KBE can provide benefits of time, cost and quality to the entire product development lifecycle

Technical Benefits Business Benefits Reduced design time 1/3 reduction in design cost for repetitive tasks Maintain design and analysis consistency Release of manpower for re-deployment Concurrent integration of multi-disciplinary engineering constraints Near elimination of rework Enhanced product optimisation Knowledge capture and retention Flexibility to respond to design changes Reduced product costs   Improved products and customer service/perception

Sample of projects utilising KBE:

• Fastener Instantiation
• Automated generation of fastener based on flap geometry and material thickness
• Automated selection from standard component database  

• KBE Wing Panel Tooling Design
• Development of a KBE application for automatic creation of panel tooling solid models, drawings and NC tooling data  for  44 Tools
• NRC savings including the effort taken to develop the KBe tool
• Turn around of mould tools & NC fixtures design packs including NC programs from frozen geometry in less than 24 hours rather than at least 2 weeks.