Manthorpe Engineering adds specialist expertise to improve manufacturability and shorten timescales. “One of the first things we do using NX is to make sure that we can optimize the design for manufacture,” adds Steve Lee, a manufacturing engineer at Manthorpe Engineering. “Time on the machine is money and if we can find any areas of the design that can be improved, we have a conversation with the customer, interrogate the model in NX and manipulate certain features if necessary. We can iterate with the customer very quickly to ensure that the production process is the most cost effective and time efficient.”