What come first, the standards or the tools?

[MSawtell]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

There are discussions at my company about the use of validation tools - however there are discussions about the use of data/design creation standards as well. Should the company have a set of data/design standards established first, which are tailored for the company/industry, before purchasing C.O.T.S. validation tools? Or, shall the company purchase the tool and tailor standards against it?

MSawtell

 

[looslib]

Develop the standards for your company from industry accepted standards. Then develop the validation tools to ensure that your designers are following the company standards.


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Ben Loosli
Sr IS Technologist
L-3 Communications

 

[MSawtell]

looslib,

We pretty much have the standards in place for industrial - it is the math data standards that we are pondering. We are running a NX2 shop, with legacy data coming from UGMX - however, but there is a push to go to part families. To do that corrections need to be made - but just throwing a product like Check-Mate at it may not be the "Silver Bullet".

Is there anybody in this forum with experience with Check-Mate and can relay their stories of getting UG files into some sort of data compliance?

MSawtell