Q-Checker

Description :  
Q-Checker
- Is fully integrated within the PLM process chain.
- Has more than 300 checks that are fully configurable to custom and process specific requirements. Specific Check Profiles from the leading OEM's are provided on www.q-checker.com.
- Is so user-friendly, engineers and designers can get started without any training. The software automatically highlights the most critical areas and features, making them easy to identify. It takes only a few simple mouse clicks to interface with your CATIA models and you can even initiate Q-Checker's automatic healing functionality.
- Has embedded "Best Practices" for each check criteria, written by CATIA experts. Users gain not only valuable information on their models, but they can quickly improve their CATIA modeling skills.
- Has a tight integration with CATIA V5 Knowledgeware that allows creation of custom checks as well as the means to integrate Q-Checker capabilities into Knowledgeware development.
- Works with CATIA V4 and CATIA V5.
- Allows managers to ensure that models from either suppliers or internal departments comply with their data process needs, so that everyone contributes to product data quality.
- Verifies CAD-models for structural and geometric quality, based on general and company standards.
- Embeds PDQ as an automatic part of the PLM process.

Customer benefits :  
- Save time spent fixing models: Fixing geometry problems constitutes a significant design cost, not only in terms of time and quality, but also in wasted human and material resources. The repairs that are not made at the outset are often compounded when users of different downstream applications use different methods to “fix” the original model. With Q-Checker, critical defects can be identified and repaired before faulty features lead to additional geometric problems.
- Designer Awareness: Q-Checker anticipates and captures requirements of all downstream applications, even where they may not be evident to the designer.
- Pro-Active Learning: The learning curve can be steep and tedious at times, particularly for new and part-time designers who need to conform to specific customer CAD standards. Q-Checker can assist by identifying common design process mistakes and inefficient practices. It is like supporting each designer with the experience and advice of an expert user.
- Promotes Design Reuse: Because defects have traditionally been so common in models, most users prefer to rebuild their own, instead of reusing existing ones. This is another costly part of designing that Q-Checker can help to eliminate.
- Enforcing internal CATIA standards: Q-Checker helps to ensure that corporate design standards and specifications for using CATIA are adhered to, allowing the design and production teams to become more productive and efficient and supporting higher product quality.
- Supplier Confidence: OEMs working with Q-Checker have the confidence that they are sending their suppliers good quality data. At the same time, they can insist that their suppliers use a specific checking profile. Suppliers who use Q-Checker can assure their customers and partners that they are delivering accurate models that are based on a consistent standard of modeling practices.
- Checking files transferred from other CAD software: CATIA users frequently need to use multiple CAD systems and data, a practice that frequently leads to problems with data translation. This usually calls for significant reworking and redesigning. Q-Checker helps to catch errors and adjust standards quickly and effectively, allowing for speedy recovery.
- Check Seal: Q-Checker allows users to store the model results in a check seal. This provides still greater security and helps to save time since the receiving part does not have to be rechecked against the specified Profile.

Available since :   30/09/2002   V5R9

DS prerequisite products :   Q-Checker for CATIA V5 supports all CATIA V5 platforms (P1- P3)
Q-Checker for CATIA V5 needs CATIA V5 runtime licenses. MD2, ME2 or HD2 configurations are usually sufficient (depending on the activated check criterions, additional CATIA V5 modules may have to be installed)
For Knowledgeware check capabilities, a Knowledgware runtime license is required.

Product languages :   French, English, German, Japanese

5 key qualification Questions :
- Do you have any geometry and/or methodology standards in your enterprise that you would like to reinforce?
- Do you exchange a lot of data between departments within your enterprise and/or with your supply chain?
- Do you have difficulties to perform analysis, tooling or mold because of poor quality modeling?
- Would you like to perform some quality checking within CATIA and your PDM system?
- Would it be beneficial to measure the level of quality in your design process so that you can target specific improvements?

- Automotive, Aerospace, Consumer goods, E&E, etc.
- Any industry with data exchange internally and/or with supply chain.
- Any company with requirements for methodology.

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