Physna 101: Match

Physna is a cloud-based software that understands 3D models based on their precise object geometry, turning a model’s unique geometry into code.

Physna’s technology can significantly reduce design hours, lower procurement costs, and enable an enterprise to immediately identify models and parts using 3D models, text, or images.

Complete insight into every part

For a manufacturer with tens or hundreds of thousands of parts, models inevitably contain common components, like screws. Manufacturers might have dozens of the exact same part called different things, built for different equipment, made at a different time, with different file names.

Redundancy in 3D models means duplicate parts. This strains design and manufacturing teams who have to differentiate between similar models without the intelligence to do so, or rely on manually inputted descriptions of the models.

It also exacerbates supply chain challenges with unnecessary duplicates in inventory. Beyond the supply chain, duplicative inventory can result in superfluous certification for duplicate parts, redundant training for employees, and more.

Match your parts with a click

The easiest way to think of Match is “find me other parts like this,” also known as a "part-to-part" comparison. After identifying a model, Match will find other 3D models that are a geometric match to the model.

So if you search for a screw, Match will show you all other screw models that are geometrically similar to the screw you searched for, and how similar they are, expressed as a percentage.

Match will find similar parts regardless of file name, file folder, or file type. If you have it, Physna will find it, quickly and accurately providing actionable results.

Eliminate redundancy once and for all

With Match, engineers and designers spend their time building, because they aren’t stuck looking for 3D models or creating duplicates. Supply chain and procurement operations are simplified and overall inventory is reduced by identifying duplicate parts and consolidating operations.

Match makes manufacturing simpler by easily identifying alternative parts, giving everyone the confidence they’ll work as well as the original part.

Additional resources

Physna can do more than help you identify alternative parts; our software can also tell you everywhere that part is used with Part Match.

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