Utilizing CADSEEK as a Service
Many enterprises have part database projects that are never executed because the human resources required to undertake the project are impractical or even impossible. For example, a project might involve classification of parts by function, or comparing suppliers to look for similar parts with dissimilar prices or part lives. 
These projects require thousands of man hours of skilled labor, making them impractical.
In contrast ... CADSEEK Analytics can slice and organize data, providing a small team a road map showing precisely where duplication, unwarranted variances, and attribute errors exist. Analysts can then spend their time on high value analysis rather than searching for the matching needles in a massive haystack.
For these kinds of projects and many more, CADSEEK Analytics can either be licensed or leased as a service. As a service, the cost is based on the size and duration of the project. For example, if the goal is to find unwarranted variances in supplier pricing, CADSEEK Analytics can be leased for use on just the supplier parts and for a project duration of perhaps 3 months.
- The reports that are generated can be exported and kept by the enterprise after the project completion.
- When CADSEEK Analytics is leased it is installed on customer hardware and within the customer firewall just as if the software were being licensed.
Use cases include:
- Consolidation: identifying duplicate and functionally duplicate parts.
- Standardization: identifying larger pools of similar parts where creating a standard design may be feasible.
- Unwarranted Price Variance Discovery: when parts are highly similar, they should have the same manufacturing process and similar cost (allowing for material, tolerance and surface finish issues of course). CADSEEK Analytics can be used to determine situations where similarity is high but significant cost variances exist. In some cases these difference can be due to price creep, mergers, or divisional purchasing practices.
- Unwarranted Performance Variance Discovery: as with price, CADSEEK Analytics can be used to find situations where similarity is high, but differences exist in warranty, service life, or technical performance.
- Predictive Pricing Model: the correlation between shape and cost can be used to develop a cost or price prediction model based on the similarity of a new part to existing parts with known prices.
- Attribute Repair: parts that are similar or highly similar should logically have many of the same descriptive attributes but often do not due to errors, division or foreign languages. CADSEEK Analytics can be used to group similar models by function (they share a highly similar shape) to dramatically automate the assignment of new attribute values, e.g., find all parts shaped like this engine value which do not contain the text 'valve' in their filename or description.
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Determine parts overlap
- Determine supplier overlap / find volume discount opportunities
- Price variance detection
- Attribute standardization
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