New Webinar, New Offering

DCS DIGEST - January Edition

What's Happening?

New Webinar - DCS & Metrologic Present The Power of 5 Axis CMM
SMART ADVANTAGE - Upgrade your support
DCS 2025 User Conference - Register to Stay Updated
Tolerance Stack - Special Virtual Course Available
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Webinar - End-to-End Solution

See the Power of 5 Axis CMM Measurement - Faster, More Accurate Inspection

Learn How Simulation Drives Quality

Webinar | March 13th, 2025

Discover how 5-axis CMMs, by focusing on critical-to-quality points, can enhance efficiency and accuracy in metrology. These precise measurements can then be shared downstream for analysis and monitoring, helping to identify trends in non-conformance, pinpoint root causes of manufacturing issues, and compare data across suppliers, production lines, machines, or plants.

Summary

Learn how 5 Axis provides real benefits to your metrology
See how to program and simulate 5 Axis measurement programs offline
Learn how to connect your CMM to a Quality Management System and monitor inspection in real-time, view trends, root cause issues, and provide traceability

Leverage 5 Axis to Improve Metrology Efficiency and Accuracy

There are growing demands within the global manufacturing industry to increase productivity and efficiency levels at faster paces. As a result of this, metrologists are starting to find out that using Coordinating Measuring Machines (CMMs) that only operate using 3-axis machining technologies is not enough anymore.

While regular measuring machines operate on the X, Y, and Z axes only, a 5-axis machine can rotate two additional axes – A and B – thereby enabling a multidirectional approach to working on tighter tolerances and achieving complex geometric measurements, between 2-5 times faster than existing 3-axis CMMs do.

In terms of the hardware in a 5-axis CMM, the main features include:

-- Compatibility with market leading CMMs,

-- Longevity – possibly up to 8 years,

-- Measures parts faster, but this depends on the part.

In terms of the software application that is configured with a 5-axis CMM, the main features worth noting include:

-- Flexibility in programming: it is easy to build and modify programs,

-- Modern, smart and user-friendly interfaces,

-- Compatibility with existing functionalities.

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NEW - SMART ADVANTAGE Support

Upgrade Your Support with SMART ADVANTAGE

Currently available in North America

Customer Success Advocate: This would be a dedicated 3DCS Technical Representative that you will be assigned to your user community. You can reach out to this individual directly for assistance instead of through our standard tech support system.

3DCS Modeling Support: Your technical representative will be available to help guide you through any issues you are having with your 3DCS models and offer suggestions.

3DCS Model Reviews: Your technical representative will be available to review your 3DCS models to ensure tolerances, moves and measures are being properly utilized and if needed help you with understanding/interpreting simulation results.

Software Training Refresh: If needed, a 3DCS instructor will be available to offer a training refresh for anyone who has attended a previous training session.

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Tolerance Stack Training Course

Tolerance Stack Analysis Training

Upcoming Online Open Training Class

July 28th-Aug 1st, 2025

5 Zoom sessions

4 hours per day, between 11AM – 3PM EST (UTC-05:00)

Training will be given in English

Price per person: $895

Course Description

Tolerance stack analysis is actually the study of the mutual relationship between the allowed deviation limits between parts and assemblies. Stack computation improves understanding of the design solution, allows early identification of problems starting while still in the design stage, forms the basis for decision making and is used to optimize tolerances to reduce costs and enhance benefit.

The course provides the theoretical knowledge and practical know-how to perform stack computation and includes heavy practical exercises of generic problems, exercise and full solution of real problems (the possibility of applying exercises to parts and assemblies of your company is contingent on previous submission of drawings and assemblies). This is an advanced GD&T course.

Course Content

Introduction and tolerance-stack computation definitions
Principles and rules of stack computation
Tolerance diagram
Tolerance stack – casting and concentricity (part, assembly)
Tolerance stack – profile (part, assembly)
Tolerance stack – position
Tolerance stack – position with material conditions – bonus and shift (part, assembly)
Tolerance stack – form (Feature, FOS, Feature-of-Size)
Tolerance stack – orientation (Feature, FOS)
Integrated tolerance stack computation (part, assembly)
Application of tolerance stack computation to tolerance optimization
Summary practical exercise

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DCS Global Technology Conference

Register for the 2025 Global Technology and User Conference

Register Today at No Cost*

Interested in joining the event? Not sure? Register to stay up to date, and cancel at no cost.

NO PAYMENT NEEDED TO REGISTER

*DCS will contact you after registration to set up payment options

DATES

SEPT 16-18, 2025

LOCATION

Michigan State Management Center

811 West Square Lake Road, Troy , MI 48098

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Interested in Presenting?

CLICK HERE to Volunteer to Present at the Event

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Miss Any Webinars from 2024?

See how easy it is to view your data using interactive CAD

QDMWEB QI

See 12 New Features to Understand and Solve Quality Issue

Summary

-- See how QDM can keep all of your team up to date on quality levels from the plant floor up to plant and quality managers

-- Find out how to watch plant quality in real-time, and then dive into alerts and issues to root cause production problems fast

-- Learn how to collect, standardize, and monitor supplier part quality

QDMWEB QI manufacturing quality management system gives you access to your quality information from anywhere, at any time, instantly. Using Quality Intelligence, automate your quality collection and start reducing your costs with real-time monitoring and powerful SPC tools

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3DCS V8.1 Part 1

DCS is proud to announce the release of 3DCS Variation Analyst Version 8.1, as well as for 3DCS Design Variation Modeler (DVM) and 3DCS Mechanical Variation Modeler (MVM).

This new version contains four key new features that will help users across the globe:

1. New GD&T Distributions for Viewing Statistical Results

2. Design of Experiments for Model Variants

3. Language Localization

4. Compliant Black Box Assembly Modeling

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3DCS and Catia 3DX Generative GD&T

Summary:

---Where we have been (generating models)

---Where we are

---Where we are going

---Auto Creating Part GD&T from Mating Conditions (Demo)

---Auto-extracting MTMs for a complete 3DCS Tolerance model (Demo)

---Understanding 3DEXPERIENCE Generative Tolerancing

By using these two powerful tools together, designers can create designs that are both precise and highly efficient.

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Learn more about the new version of 3DCS

3DCS V8.1 Part 2

DCS is proud to announce the release of 3DCS Variation Analyst Version 8.1, as well as for 3DCS Design Variation Modeler (DVM) and 3DCS Mechanical Variation Modeler (MVM).

This webinar focuses on 3 enhancements:

-- More on 2D Distributions

-- Running Model Variants & DOE

-- CM Black Box Assembly Modeling

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Need Help Getting Started with 3D Tolerance Analysis?

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GD&T, Modeling Services, Training, Advanced Support

At DCS, we strive to provide our customers with the help and support they need to succeed. Find out how DCS can help you jumpstart your quality initiatives and meet your goals on time and under budget.

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