COST ADVANTAGE

The COST ADVANTAGE is an expert Design for Manufacturability (DFM) tool which provides cost and producibility feedback as a design evolves. It includes the ability to customize Cognition-supplied knowledge bases (Assembly, Injection Molding, Machining, etc.) and to develop new knowledge bases for proprietary manufacturing processes. It can import design features (hole, slot, flange, rib, etc.) from feature-based solid modelers in order to estimate the manufacturing costs of designs. Cognition's MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE II passes design features directly to the COST ADVANTAGE via a real time connection so that design engineers get immediate feedback on the cost impact of their design decisions.

Ralph Gifford

Product Manager
Cognition Corporation
209 Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730
USA
617-271-9300 X239
fax:617-271-0813
ralph@ci.com