{"id":2235,"date":"2014-05-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/NX-Design-Blog\/NX-Case-Study-Molex-Chengdu\/ba-p\/30652"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:25:30","slug":"nx-case-study-molex-chengdu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/nx-case-study-molex-chengdu\/","title":{"rendered":"NX Case Study: Molex Chengdu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><STRONG>NX CAD chosen as the foundation platform for product development<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u201cIn facing increasingly difficult technical development and consumer demand, we needed to improve productivity, reduce costs and innovate continuously,\u201d says Vincent Yap, director of Molex Global Tooling Center.\u201cWe had to speed up our technical R&amp;D and equipment upgrades to meet higher requirements of mold design and machining.\u201d<\/P><br \/>\n<P><IMG src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/5262i9D50E5060FBE139D\/image-size\/medium?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Molex part\" title=\"Molex part\" align=\"center\" \/><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG>Challenges:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Lean production<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Develop new mold techniques<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Improve productivity<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Reduce costs<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Innovate continuously<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Keys To Success:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>3D system-based product and mold design<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Direct NC programming<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Associativity across product design, mold design and mold manufacturing<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Results:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Increased initial product success rate by more than 95 percent<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Improved mold budget accuracy by more than 90 percent<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Reduced mold manufacturing cycle by 30 percent<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Industry:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Electronics &amp; Semiconductor<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Consumer &amp; Industrial Electronics<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG>Client&#8217;s Primary Business:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>A leading supplier of interconnect systems, Molex Chengdu is focused on the production and manufacture of electronic connector molds at the company\u2019s 59 product manufacturing plants strategically located across Asia, Europe and North America. Molex Chengdu has more than 6,000 employees, including hundreds of electromechanical and process engineers.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><a title=\"Molex web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.molex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Visit their Website<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><a title=\"more information about Molex and NX\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/success\/case_study.cfm?Component=218141&amp;ComponentTemplate=1481&amp;stc=wwiia420001&amp;stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Read more about this Case Study<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Jerry<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NX CAD chosen as the foundation platform for product development<br \/>\n \u201cIn facing increasingly difficult technical development and consumer demand, we needed to improve productivity, reduce costs and inn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[160,1],"tags":[58],"industry":[],"product":[304],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-success-story","category-news","tag-case-study","product-nx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}