Every produced or purchased part involves your business for 6 to25 hours. In many cases even longer.

Of course not every part is unnecessary, but duplicates are - just as parts with similar functions or geometry, which could be used alternatively. This is true for about 15 percent of your parts. That results in an lot of time and money you could have spent more efficiently.

With the right partner at your side part diversity management (standardization) is no herculean task. Take advantage of our know-how, our knowledge-based methods and tools, which have already proved their value in numerous projects. Stop wasting time and use it for true innovation in the future. It only takes the three following steps to achieve this:

1. Exposure of unneccessary parts

In order to fight part diversity you have to expose it first. Using 3D-model comparison, 3D-SearchIT provides a part map of all of your parts and assemblies. This way duplicates and clusters become visible by automatically comparing all parts with each other. The need for action as well as the benefit will be detected in a flash. Unbelievable, if you think about how long it would take to manually compare 50.000 drawings or models with each other. The next step is to take custom-made action.

2. Standardization, consolidation, harmonization

It's time to clean up the mess - which happens automatically of course. This happens by defining rules which we will elaborate together with you. Once the rules are set the PartExplorer does the rest of the job by simply recognizing avoidable parts and merging them together. All you have to do is to control the database.

3. Use of re-usable parts

Finally it is essential to keep this tidy condition of your part spectrum alive which is actually a challenge to your corporate culture. What follows is the smooth transition to knowledge management.