Varatech Engineering Consultants, Inc.

Design for Six Sigma

Build Within Spec Everytime

SigmundEdge, a powerful tolerance analysis software for SolidEdge developed by Varatech, enables engineers to evaluate, optimize and validate assembly build quality, relative to piece part tolerance and assembly process variation. Fully integrated within Solid Edge, this value-added tool can be used early in the development phase before design solidification and hard tooling procurement. SigmundEdge prevents costly tweaking delays at ramp-up as well as long-term variation problems. It has been awarded Certified Select status within the Voyager Program. SigmundEdge is integrated with SolidEdge v10 and later versions.

SigmundEdge can predict the quality of a Solid Edge assembly based upon predetermined tolerance values or determine the component tolerances required to meet a given assembly build objective. SigmundEdge even includes a powerful utility, which automatically optimizes all tolerances in a given model. Sigmund Edge's powerful utilities and easy to use menu-driven modeling capabilities greatly reduce modeling time and effort, and its succinct reporting module provides all relevant information in four easy-to-interpret reports. SigmundEdge optimizes design and assembly process, add precision where needed and eliminates overly costly designs.

Solid Edge Integration	Key Product Features
Associative to Solid Edge geometry and tolerances SigmundEdge uses tolerances from Solid Edge part, assembly, sheetmetal and draft modes Auto Update optimized tolerance values directly back to Solid Edge Reads both dimensional and geometric tolerances Single source documentation for tolerance stacks	Five types of analysis including Worst Case, RSS (Root Sum Squared), Modified RSS, Monte Carlo simulations, and Process Centering RSS Wide range of statistical distributions Tolerance Optimizer (Patent pending), and Worstcase Interference Check Automatic Statistical, Sensitivity, SPC, and Cost Savings report generation