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Time is wasted and errors can creep in.
This is, unfortunately, not a rare occurrence. In the modern world of design and manufacture of discrete products, much of the design work takes place with the support of electronic tools such as CAD systems. Tooling design is only one of many such downstream uses now common in the automotive industry. Others include reuse of models for new design activities, CNC programming, computer-aided engineering applications, rapid prototyping, and even documentation in service and user manuals. Quality product data does not simply happen.