 | At the conceptual stage of development, CATIA Product Function Optimizer 2 (PFO) allows you to detect engineering problems by creating functional systems for a product and provides helpful methods and knowledge databases for solving problems. To accomplish this, CATIA Product Function Optimizer 2 (PFO) utilizes Invention Machine Corporation (IMC) TechOptimizer kernel knowledge to add unique expertise in functional system modelling to the CATIA portfolio. IMC is the world's leading provider of knowledge-based innovation software. CATIA Product Function Optimizer 2 (PFO) enables you to numerically diagnose the value of systems and offers strategies to improve this value. It identifies and categorizes functional problems in a system and helps to conceptually solve them by searching for solutions in dedicated knowledge databases. Features - Represents functional system views of products with intelligent diagram
- Identifies functional problems in systems
- Supports brainstorming activity suggesting solutions and capturing ideas with hyperlinks
- Offers trimming capability (simplification) for functional systems, according to engineering goals
- Links with ENOVIA Effects Database for solution identification
- Imports and exports Invention Machine Corp. TechOptimizer (TM) files
Key customer benefits - Accurate description of the functional systems of a product
In a similar manner to CATIA Product Function Definition 2 (PFD), you identify functional objects involved in the product (seen as a system) and the interactions between them. The system is presented as a graph, in which objects are displayed as nodes and the interactions as arcs. This results in a graphical presentation of sentences. The semantic view of the product can be defined prior to the subsequent product design stages (preliminary and detailed). Qualifications, dedicated to the TRIZ methodology (a set of innovation guidelines implemented by Invention Machine Corp.), can be interactively chosen and will help to identify potential improvements to the system. Functional systems can be created from scratch in Product Function Optimizer 2 (PFO), or you can re-use the functional system description from Product Function Definition 2 (PFD).
- Visualization of functional systems
You can visualize functional systems with the IMC TechOptimizer look, adding semantics in the functional model. This visualization can be made using a graph, or for better readability in the case of complex graphs, using a matrix.
- Identification of functional problems in systems
You can identify functional problems in systems (IMC Problem Manager working on added extensions).
- Bookmark Information
Designers' ideas and solutions can be tracked by setting hyperlinks inside problems.
- Simplification of the functional systems
Functional systems can be analyzed, reworked and improved (trimming), according to engineering goals (i.e. noise reduction, power increase). The trimming function guides you through a dedicated wizard, offering choices among different strategies, including cost reduction, problem elimination and value enhancement. You can also define trimming strategies to improve paths by defining a series of parameters with different rates. Based on this trimming, you can manage variants of function modelling.
- Problem solving
Problem solving can be initiated by searching for solutions in IMC knowledge databases:
- IM Effects (TM): Scientific effects database that can be accessed through ENOVIA 3DCom Effects Library
- IM Principles (TM): Database for solving conflicts and contradictions in the system
- IM Predictions (TM : Database for defining subsequent phases of evolution of the system, by deduction from analogies of technologies
- Import/ Export of IMC TechOptimizer files
Allows migration and investment protection in existing Invention Machine Corp. TechOptimizer projects.
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