(Lattice Technology Inc.: San Francisco) -- Lattice Technology Inc., the standard for digital mock up and technical documentation software in the manufacturing enterprise, is delivering  key solutions to Thatcham, also known as the British Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre, to enable 3-D simulation and documentation of automotive repairs for the UK insurance industry.

Thatcham undertakes research on behalf of UK automotive insurers to calculate repair times for all models of vehicle on the UK roads. Traditionally, this has involved physically disassembling a particular model, stripping it of its parts and then conducting timed studies as it is reassembled. These “Thatcham times” are then used by the UK automotive insurers to assess the cost of repairs when claims are being made.

“Tracking down the required car model, shipping it to our workshop and then undertaking these disassembly processes is a very costly procedure in both monetary terms and time," explains Andrew Marsh, advanced data and methods operations manager at Thatcham. “With 3-D CAD data we knew that we could reduce the cost of this process.”

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