巨腾将设计和生产转移到 Cimatron

“Our move to Cimatron was one of the best business decisions we have ever made.”
“我们搬到 Cimatron 是我们做过的最好的商业决策之一。”

Mr Luorongde, Vice-President
罗荣德先生，副总裁

Ju Teng International Holdings is one of the world’s largest producers of casings for electronic goods. With 40,000 staff and seven manufacturing facilities across both mainland China and Taiwan, its range of operations include plastic injection molding, spray painting, metal tooling and stamping and assembly.
巨腾国际控股有限公司是全球最大的电子产品外壳生产商之一。在中国大陆和台湾拥有 40,000 名员工和七个制造工厂，其业务范围包括塑料注射成型、喷漆、金属模具以及冲压和组装。

In addition to the production of casings for televisions and handheld items such as ipads and digital cameras, Ju Teng claims over 30% of the international market for the manufacture of notebook casings. Tier-one notebook companies it supplies include Acer, Asus, Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Sony and Toshiba.
除了生产电视机外壳和手持设备（如ipad和数码相机）外，Ju Teng还声称在笔记本电脑外壳制造的国际市场上占有30%以上。它供应的一线笔记本电脑公司包括宏碁、华硕、苹果、戴尔、惠普、联想、索尼和东芝。

Challenges 挑战

As with most electronic products, the market for notebooks is highly competitive with ongoing efforts by the key brands to produce new, ever more powerful models as part of the battle for market share. While this means a regular supply of jobs for Ju Teng as a leading producer of notebook casings, deadlines are usually tight and there is constant pressure to keep production costs to an absolute minimum. However, given the sheer complexities involved in producing the casing molds – an average of 25 molds are required to create all the components for a single casing – meeting deadlines and minimizing costs can be challenging, to say the least.
与大多数电子产品一样，笔记本电脑市场竞争激烈，主要品牌不断努力生产新的、更强大的型号，作为市场份额争夺战的一部分。虽然这意味着巨腾作为笔记本电脑外壳的领先生产商有固定的工作岗位供应，但期限通常很紧，并且一直有将生产成本保持在绝对最低的压力。然而，考虑到生产套管模具所涉及的复杂性——平均需要 25 个模具来制造单个套管的所有组件——至少可以说，满足最后期限和降低成本可能具有挑战性。

As part of its ongoing efforts to improve productivity, in 2009 Ju Teng undertook a review of the CAD/CAM software employed in its manufacturing facilities. At the time, three software products were in use, one for parting, a 2D product for mold design, and Cimatron for NC programming and electrode creation.
2009 年，Ju Teng 对其制造工厂使用的 CAD/CAM 软件进行了审查，作为提高生产力的持续努力的一部分。当时，有三种软件产品在使用中，一种用于分型，一种用于模具设计的2D产品，以及用于NC编程和电极创建的Cimatron。

It quickly became apparent that the use of separate products was creating communication inefficiencies between the CAD and CAM departments. Design data would need to be imported by NC programmers, and any accompanying instructions would be conveyed either verbally or via text documents, rather than by graphical geometry, creating process delays and leading to mistakes. In addition, all aspects of the design had to be fully completed before the CAM department could take over.
很快，人们就发现，使用单独的产品会导致 CAD 和 CAM 部门之间的沟通效率低下。设计数据需要由 NC 编程人员导入，任何随附的指令都将以口头或文本文档的方式传达，而不是通过图形几何图形传达，从而造成流程延迟并导致错误。此外，在CAM部门接管之前，必须完全完成设计的所有方面。

Another major issue was the use of 2D software for the mold design. Many aspects of the design were left to the imagination of the designer and mistakes were not discovered until after the manufacture of the mold. This problem was so common that Ju Teng had a department dedicated solely to fixing mistakes in molds that had already been machined.
另一个主要问题是使用2D软件进行模具设计。设计的许多方面都留给了设计师的想象力，直到模具制造之后才发现错误。这个问题非常普遍，以至于 Ju Teng 有一个部门专门负责修复已经加工的模具中的错误。

Solution 溶液

After an extensive review and assessment of the available products on the market, Ju Teng’s choice fell to Cimatron. The company had been successfully using Cimatron for NC programming and electrode design and production since 2004, and saw the transition to the integrated software for both CAD and CAM as a natural choice. By the end of 2010, the company had a total of 280 Cimatron seats; by the beginning of 2013, Ju Teng had fully implemented the transition to Cimatron, with over 400 seats of the software across its seven machining facilities.
在对市场上的可用产品进行广泛的审查和评估后，Ju Teng的选择落在了Cimatron身上。自 2004 年以来，该公司一直成功地将 Cimatron 用于 NC 编程和电极设计和生产，并将过渡到 CAD 和 CAM 集成软件视为自然选择。截至2010年底，公司共有280个Cimatron座椅;到 2013 年初，巨腾已全面过渡到 Cimatron，在其 7 个加工设施中拥有 400 多个软件席位。

The benefits of shifting over our entire design and production to Cimatron were obvious
将整个设计和生产转移到 Cimatron 的好处是显而易见的

“Cimatron offered strong capabilities for our mold making needs and allowed all of our CAD and CAM processes to be performed with the one software. Working in a 3D environment and using Cimatron’s analysis tools, our staff has been able to accurately design molds for production, practically eliminating the need for trial-and-error on the shop floor. We’ve even been able to close one of our departments that was responsible for repairing mistakes in machined molds.
“Cimatron 为我们的模具制造需求提供了强大的功能，并允许使用一个软件执行我们所有的 CAD 和 CAM 流程。在3D环境中工作并使用Cimatron的分析工具，我们的员工已经能够准确地设计用于生产的模具，几乎消除了在车间进行试错的需要。我们甚至能够关闭我们的一个部门，该部门负责修复机加工模具中的错误。

“It’s always a risk for a company the size of ours to move all of our operations to a new software, particularly given the burden of implementation and training. However, the Cimatron team provided an outstanding level of support during the process with onsite training and technical assistance, as well as a willingness to work closely with us at all stages to ensure that the transition was as smooth as possible.” 
“对于像我们这样规模的公司来说，将所有业务转移到新软件上总是有风险的，特别是考虑到实施和培训的负担。然而，Cimatron团队在此过程中提供了出色的支持，包括现场培训和技术援助，并愿意在各个阶段与我们密切合作，以确保过渡尽可能顺利。