{"id":7614,"date":"2014-07-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Simcenter-Blog\/NX-Case-Study-Design-Automation-Associates-Inc\/ba-p\/37573"},"modified":"2026-03-26T06:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:07:32","slug":"nx-case-study-design-automation-associates-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/nx-case-study-design-automation-associates-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"NX Case Study: Design Automation Associates, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>DAA redeemed itself with a key customer when it cut pre-processing time in half and reduced the mid-surfacing process by eleven hours, thus improving&nbsp;project&nbsp;turnaround time with NX CAE.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><IMG src=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/8493i4DF5416E9D6408A8\/image-size\/small?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Design Automation Associates design their truck with NX CAE.png\" title=\"Design Automation Associates design their truck with NX CAE.png\" width=\"272\" height=\"189\" align=\"center\" \/><IMG src=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/8495i70A69381363AD706\/image-size\/small?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DAA part in NX CAE.png\" title=\"DAA part in NX CAE.png\" align=\"center\" \/><\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG><SPAN>Challenges:<\/SPAN><\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN>Excessive analysis costs and delays<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN>Customer satisfaction issues<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN>Scheduling impact on other projects in queue<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN>Need to continually demonstrate technology advancement and added value to customer<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG><SPAN>Keys To Success:<\/SPAN><\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN>Replacing legacy analysis tool with a more advanced CAE environment<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN>Global Technical Access Center to speed up learning time for new simulation software<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN>NX CAE capabilities to decrease preprocessing time and increase analysis reliability<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG><SPAN>Results:<\/SPAN><\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN>Established new best practices for project schedules and budgets<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN>Reduced preprocessing time by 50 percent<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN>Increased customer satisfaction with 30 percent faster results<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN>Reduced mid-surfacing process from 12 hours to 1 hour<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN>Reduced overall project costs<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG><SPAN>Industry:<\/SPAN><\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/aerospace-defense\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Aerospace &amp; Defense<\/A><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG><SPAN>Client&#8217;s Primary Business:<\/SPAN><\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daasolutions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Design Automation Associates, Inc.<\/A>&nbsp;provides knowledge-based engineering and mechanical engineering consulting services.<\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG><SPAN>Solutions\/Services:<\/SPAN><\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX<\/A><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/for-simulation\/cae\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX CAE<\/A><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/for-simulation\/nastran\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX Nastran<\/A><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>Read the entire&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/success\/case_study.cfm?Component=218357&amp;ComponentTemplate=1481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">case study<\/A>.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Amy<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAA redeemed itself with a key customer when it cut pre-processing time in half and reduced the mid-surfacing process by eleven hours, thus improving&nbsp;project&nbsp;turnaround time with NX CAE.<br \/>\n &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53799,"featured_media":7617,"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":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[428,581],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","product-nx","product-simcenter-nastran"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/DAA-part-in-NX-CAE-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53799"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7618,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions\/7618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7614"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=7614"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=7614"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}