How Flexible Modeling Saved Honeywell $329,000 in Translation Expenses

Scott Givens

Honeywell has several instances of legacy I-DEAS data managers. This represents a risk, as limited resident SMEs represent single-point failures in data access. A project was kicked off to identify a supplier who could help migrate and translate the legacy I-DEAS data into Creo. Initially, only feature-based translation options were considered, at $9/model. BREP translation was then considered over feature-based translation. Utilizing Flexible Modeling to handle future model changes, considerable cost savings was realized ($3/model). This equated to maximum savings on the project of $328,744. Flexible Modeling offers the ability to move, resize, remove, mirror and pattern BREP geometry, and can also add native Creo features. This allows for production revisions to legacy, BREP translated I-DEAS data without incurring the large expense of a feature-based translation solution.