With offshore competition on the rise, Progressive Design Technologies needed to significantly increase productivity, improve accuracy and improve downstream processes to remain competitive. The company replaced traditional 2D drawing/trial-and-error approach with NX software; automate die design process with NX Progressive Die Wizard that verifies designs directly within software before sending into production.
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