Lattice Technology Blog

4 Reasons to Use XVL to Share Digital Product Data Downstream from Design

Enable Stakeholders Downstream from Design to Easily Access 3D Product Data While in design,...

MBE Light - An Alternative

MBE - The Model-Based Enterprise | The Virtual Product Model - An Alternative

IoT, Digital Twins, XVL

This is really cool, out of this world or rather under the surface. It combines my love of water,...

Lattice Technology Announces that Dassault Systèmes Natively Supports XVL on the 3DEXPERIENCE® Platform

After a three-year joint development project between Dassault Systèmes and Lattice Technology Co....

Create Robust Technical Illustrations Directly from Your 3D CAD

Benefit of XVL for Technical Documentation Usually, illustrations and figures in technical...

Publish Work Instructions (and more) Using Microsoft Excel

Publish Work Instructions (and more) using Microsoft Excel Lattice3D Reporter brings the intuitive...

The Virtual Product Model – A Steppingstone to the Model-Based Enterprise

The Virtual Product Model can be used to implement “MBE-light”. Implementing MBE (Model-based...

XVL Enables Concurrent Processes Across Development & Manufacturing

KCM Corporation is a manufacturer of construction machinery. Due to market pressures, KCM was...

Virtual Capability Brings Stakeholders Together Using 3D CAD Model

Lattice Technology Offers 3D Product Design Review Capabilities for Work at Home

XVL Web3D Manager Enables Access to Gigabyte-Size 3D Models

— New technology gives fast access to complete product data regardless of their size or originating...

Announcing Release of XVL Content Manager

— Augments PDM/PLM systems delivering fast performance to stakeholders downstream from product...

Mitsubishi: Improving assembly processes using XVL

Planning and Validating the Assembly Processes Using XVL

Toyoda Iron Works Streamlines Processes Using XVL

XVL Customer Story: Toyoda Iron Works

Heavy Equipment Manufacturer Adopts XVL to Streamline Processes

XVL used as the single-point-of-truth for the enterprise to dramatically shorten time-to-market 

JMU: XVL Digital Manufacturing Initiative Improves Processes

Japan Marine United needed a more intuitive way, that was cost-effective, for their workers to...

EIZO Uses XVL to Improve Quality and Shorten Development Time

Use Case: EIZO Corporation using XVL Global Manufacturer of High-End Display Systems uses XVL to...

US Manufacturing Competitiveness Predicted to Overtake China

Lattice3D helps companies achieve increased productivity from assembly workers which leads to...

Share 3D CAD Data Models in Microsoft Excel

Simplify product communications by using Microsoft® Excel®. Using XVL, interactive models and...

Case Study: Alpine Precision, a Mold Maker

Going paperless in manufacturing by relying on 3D models instead of 2D drawings reduces lead time...

Enhancements for Manufacturing Planning and Validation

This release included extensive updates for creating and managing the manufacturing Bill of...

Create Electronic Work Instructions Using 3D CAD Models

What Is a Work Instruction? A work instruction is a reference/teaching/training document that...

Virtual Assembly Planning & Validation: Big Payoffs on Assembly Line

Learn how manufacturing planning can seamlessly re-use 3D engineering CAD model data for detailed...

Interactive 3D Models and Animations for the Manufacturing Company

What is an Interactive 3D model? If a picture is worth a thousand words, an interactive animation...

Collaboration, The Key to Reducing Time To Market

Collaboration drives ultra-fast order turnaround and reduces man-power by 90% for die and mold...

3D is Backbone for Improved Communication, Productivity and Quality

The Need for Better Product & Technical Communications The MAN Commercial Vehicles Group realized...

CASIO Manuals Deliver Productivity Needed For Electronics Manufacturer

Casio uses Lattice's technology to create customer manuals 50-60% faster than ever before. In...

Toyota Uses XVL from Lattice for Better Manufacturing Planning

Toyota’s Goal

Interactive 3D Product Visualization Meets Excel

In January 2013, Beth Stackpole of Desktop Engineering published an article on how to view 3D...

Four Essentials of Effective Work Instructions

I recently came across the following post that I thought might be useful for people thinking about...

Downstream Documentation: Electrical Routing & Wire Harness Creation

One of the favorite parts of my job is visiting our customers and finding out how we have helped...

New Version of Advanced Technical Communication Authoring Tool

Announces Lattice3D Studio Version 13.1. This latest release of the company’s authoring tool...

3D PDF – Easily Share 3D CAD Models using 3D PDF

Get more value from your 3D data by effectively sharing complex engineering data inside and...

How to Improve Your Work Instructions

Let's talk about Work Instructions. We all know that creating work instructions is tedious, and to...

Data Interoperability for Digital Manufacturing

As we discussed in our last blog post, “Improving Manufacturability--Design Data Sharing”,...

Design for Manufacturing — Sharing of design data is the first step

Improving Manufacturability Design Data Sharing

Leverage CAD: 3-Step Solution: Geometry to Entire Product Lifecycle

Today we announced upgrades to our 3-Step Solution Set (AUTHOR, PUBLISH, CONSUME) for moving...

The Future of Technical Documentation in a 3D World

This is a very thought provoking article about the future of technical documentation--not only...

New Human Option Video

Check out our new video highlighting the features of the XVL Studio Human option. An optional...

Automated Illustration Creation Reduces Costs by 40% for Honda

In 2009, Honda Motor Company produced 352 million cars, and over a billion motorcycles and related...

Lightweight 3D

Continuing our discussion about the history of the XVL lightweight format, I would like to...

The Birth of XVL - Lightweight Data

In 1984 Hiroshi Toriya, co-founder and CEO of Lattice Technology, Inc., was working at RICOH...

Europe – April 2011

As Lattice Technology, Inc.’s General Manager, traveling to Europe to see the use and growth of...

The Need for Lightweight Data

The Need for Lightweight Data The evolution of 3D design has brought the opportunity to expand its...