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3 | C U S TO M E R S U CC E S S S TO R Y OPTIX JSC Achieving the benefits of integrated collaboration using a single file for all details OpticsBuilder helped OPTIX JSC overcome many of the traditional barriers to workflow acceleration in optics system development—namely, the ongoing back-and-forth file sharing between engineers and designers throughout the many editing stages of system design and production, and delays related to the need for addressing the errors resulting from these inefficiencies. By using OpticsBuilder to quickly and securely share design details within a single file, OPTIX JSC created an integrated, error-free workflow between the various engineers involved with product development and design. Zemax.com Copyright © 2021. Zemax LLC. All rights reserved. About Zemax Zemax's industry-leading optical product design and simulation software, OpticStudio®, OpticStudio® STAR Module, OpticsBuilder™, and OpticsViewer™, helps optical, mechanical, and manufacturing engineering teams turn their ideas into reality. Standardizing on Zemax software reduces design iterations and repeated prototypes, speeding time to market and reducing development costs. Zemax is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, USA and has offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and China. For more information: www.zemax.com. Designers can now import and share CAD drawings in a single location, rather than forcing production teams to recreate the drawings for their own use. Optomechanical engineers can validate performance confidently instead of requiring multiple additional steps for checking their work. Proprietary manufacturing specifications and inspection data in the file are delivered at once to all production stakeholders, eliminating the opportunity for conflicting instructions or version history errors. This centralization of effort and clarity of purpose has yielded superior results: Engineers and designers spend less time repeating processes and accounting for communication gaps, allowing more time to make the product as good as it can be. "We're pleased with the results we have seen," said Uzunov. "Editing the optical circuits and elements takes about one-tenth of the time it took before—the mechanical engineer only needs to update the resulting new ZBD file for a project, rather than manually change the models."