Managing bills of equipment > Managing tool design packages

Creating a tool design package

In a manufacturing environment, tool design is often outsourced to other companies. These companies work with native NX to design custom tooling. You can create a tool design package in Manufacturing Process Planner that contains information from NX, Teamcenter, and Process Simulate required for tool design. The information is imported into NX at the tool design supplier. Tool design is performed in the context of a station in the plant. The tool design package can include:

Consumed parts
Work area data
In-process assemblies coming from a previous stations
Consumed welds
Assigned datums
Weld projections (coming from Process Simulate)
Datum direction and type (defined in the context of the BOP)
Resources
Welds consumed by a particular resource

Occurrences can also be suppressed so that they do not appear in the package or during an export.

After completion, the tool designer sends the completed tool back to the manufacturer where it is imported into Teamcenter from NX.

In Teamcenter, a tool design package is a kind of study. When you create such a study, you must consider whether you want to use a shared study or a simulation study.