Scania meets those design challenges by ensuring that assembly components fit together prior to production, using high-grade materials, and the best suppliers. These measures, as well as their internal processes, help keep costs down so they can pass the savings along to their customers. The most common formats used are STEP, IGES, VD-AFS, DXF, HPGL1, HPGL2, TIFF, PDF and Microsoft Office formats. After looking closely at these solutions, we came to an eye-opening realization. Workflow and CAD Access At Scania, when a designer determines that his or her design is ready for review by a manager or reviewer, the design is archived and sent into a workflow approval process.
Reviewers can view the design and make remarks via the redlining function.
The marked-up design is then sent downstream or back to the original designer for additional work. The electronic design is sent back and forth until a final design is approved. By viewing and converting a STL, IGES, and STEP file received via email or other methods, we have one tool that quickly facilitates communication with our suppliers. The technology facilitates a smoother, more streamlined approval process by eliminating paper and saving time. Since we are still fairly new users, we are just beginning to realize the benefits of using digital drawings as opposed to generating 2D paper plots.