The Advanced Tooling Solution brings together specific applications and supporting information and process management technology to create an end-to-end, process-driven capability for tool design and manufacture.

• Single integrated environment that manages product data and processes
• Best in class applications for tool design, electrode design, NC programming all based on the NX software
• Tools to enable and support collaboration across multiple teams and locations
• Provided by UGS, a major global engineering software supplier

The Advanced Tooling Solution is aimed at organizations that need to collapse their product development cycle and take time out of the tooling phase while maintaining product quality. To do this they need a technology infrastructure and application set that can support true concurrency in real time, with multiple designers and NC programmers working on the same project.

The biggest advantage is that the Tool design lead time shrinks and rapid design changes can be performed with process-oriented, easy-to-use, and productivity-focused tool design applications for Mold design, Progressive die design, stamping die design.

NX Tool Design Applications are designed to be connected to NX CAM within a single product and process management environment:

• Manufacturing planning: Create and manage the manufacturing process plan by linking tool design data, machining operations, and the required resources with location, shop, workcell, and machine tool to the definition of each part.
• Electrode Design: NX Electrode Design delivers the full set of capabilities necessary to design, validate and document electrodes for manufacturing. NX Electrode Design enables team design so multiple electrode designers can work on the same workpiece concurrently.
• NC programming: NX CAM maximizes the value of the latest machine tools, supporting advanced 5 axis machining and high speed milling. Mold and die faces and their associated structures and bases are machined with a wide variety of techniques. A range of automation and process capture capabilities are available to improve process efficiency and repeatability.
• Simulation, validation, and optimization: Digitally simulate, validate, and optimize tools for their design and production processes.  Simulate performance digitally and earlier in the development cycle to improve product quality while reducing or eliminating reliance on physical prototypes and costly, time-consuming design/build/change cycles.
• Quality and inspection: Speed time-to-market and improve the overall quality of the end product through inspection planning. Automate data collection and validation to ensure quality. Process and analyze the data for NC machine, first article, production, and pass & fail inspections.
• Collaboration: Product and process information is shared within and across the design team, shop floor and the extended enterprise.
• Product data management: Effectively integrate and manage the BOM, drawings, related manufacturing information, processes, resources, and reports.  Complex design changes and manufacturing process plans can be managed and integrated among tool design, machining, manufacturing process planning and the shop floor while controlling versions and revisions.
• Process management and integration: Integrate planning, CAM data management, and resource management with the shop floor.