ABSTRACT
In this challenging situation, product launch time to market for the automotive products becomes short duration with good product design quality. Design and modeling of the part-time is largely 50–60% of the total time of the product development cycle. The design stage has huge potential in which nonvalue added time can be saved. In design, lots of repetitive activities are performed by the design engineer, including various tasks such as performing quality checks, filing of checklist, e-mailing the status of design, etc., and these tasks are again confirmed by the product design expert. This chapter focuses on how we can save time by reducing the number of mouse clicks and giving assurance of design quality by automating the task and tracking its results which will give good CAD quality with minimum design time and CAD completion percentage. So, using CAD tool in combination with VBA, a macro has been built which does all these repetitive activities performed in single click, which saved 50–60% 74of time for repetitive task. By using all the results and tracked data, the project CAD completion percentage can be calculated. This results in design time optimization and cost optimization as well.
