Digital Product Definition Pathway (with Awareness)
The Product Definition Pathway equips designers, CAD specialists, and engineers with the critical skills to create, validate, and maintain Model-Based Definition (MBD) within 3D CAD models while demonstrating how these models are reused across the entire digital manufacturing lifecycle.
Description
CCAT's Digital Product Definition training pathway includes the following courses over four days:
- Tuesday - Awareness:
- Digital Thread Concepts and Value Proposition
- Next Gen TDPs and MBD Workflows
- Wednesday:
- Introduction to CAD using MBD
- Intermediate CAD using MBD
- Thursday:
- CAD Quality and Validation Practices
- Interpreting CAD Quality and Validation
- Friday:
- Inspection Plan Authoring Automation for MBD
- Automated Programming of CMM Inspection
Target Audience
Ideal for design engineers, CAD technicians, and product development professionals, this pathway is perfect for those responsible for defining, annotating, and validating model-centric datasets. Whether you're building foundational skills or pursuing certification at practitioner levels, this training streamlines your workflow, improves design integrity, and sets you up for seamless integration across design, inspection, and beyond.
Learning Objectives
- Apply Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) within 3D CAD models to accurately define geometry, tolerances, and manufacturing intent.
- Leverage PMI-driven models as the single source of truth to enable seamless downstream reuse across CAM, CMM, and digital inspection workflows.
- Create and manage MBD-ready datasets that support automation, minimize manual interpretation, and improve collaboration across design, quality, and manufacturing teams.
- Validate PMI accuracy and completeness to ensure models meet downstream consumption requirements and industry standards.
- Understand how PMI and MBD adoption accelerate manufacturing efficiency, reduce errors, and strengthen the digital thread.