Skoda auto selects Kineo CAM

Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team Oct 9, 2006

Kineo CAM announces that Skoda auto has selected Kineo Path Planner to ideally complement their existing DMU Analysis Methods and Processes.

Kineo CAM announces that Skoda auto has selected Kineo Path Planner, their standalone dynamic collision checking solution, whose ability to automatically find and generate mounting and dismounting trajectories has proved to ideally complement Skoda auto's existing DMU Analysis Methods and Processes.

This new methodology will enable Skoda auto's engineering teams to benefit from long-term cost savings and efficiencies by ensuring that such aspects as Serviceability and Manufacturability are analysed earlier and verified at each and every step of the virtual vehicle development.

The deployment of Kineo CAM's technology at Skoda auto starts with the DMU Virtual Prototype department where Kineo Path Planner is used to:.

* Assess and validate design proposals very quickly for manufacturability or serviceability directly on the Digital Mockup.

* Perform more mounting/dismounting simulations in less time than ever before.

* Eliminate or at least minimise the likelihood to be confronted with costly Design changes at the Hardware Vehicle Prototype stage.

"The key factors of choice have been the high performance of Kineo CAM's Path Planning Technology and the results reliability of Kineo Path Planner, both leading to very rapid decisions with the Digital Mockup and therefore to a significant productivity gain", explains Lubos Patka, EOV department - Process and System Integration, Skoda auto.

"The geometrical check of serviceability and manufacturability issues directly on the Digital Mockup is critical".

"It is indeed really time wasting to simulate advanced processes, for instance ergonomics or robotics studies, prior having carefully checked on the Digital Mockup that all component parts can be mounted or dismounted".

"Enabling to virtually study much more in less time while increasing overall product quality and reducing risk, this is Kineo CAM's value added proposition for even shorter vehicle development times", says Mickael Reux, Business Development Manager, Kineo CAM.