In an effort to generate the most highly functional products and get them to market ahead of the competition, Symbol Technologies, Inc., based in Holtsville, NY, embeds engineering analysis into its concurrent engineering processes.
Symbol uses a highly integrated and very aggressive approach to product engineering.
Tooling for plastic injection molding is developed while product designs are still being refined. As a result, ongoing analysis calculations regularly generate engineering changes for the toolmakers. PRP established functional project teams and streamlined communication among them so that design and analysis proceed in parallel. PRP was recently extended to tooling and analysis. Now Symbol's concurrent engineering process designs, verifies, and optimizes the product and the tooling simultaneously.