SolidWorks Case Studies
07/03/2008 12:52 PM
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Furniture, Fixtures & Office: MDI |
MDI designs and manufactures promotional signage and displays for customers in a variety of industries around the world. With more than half of its business involving custom product development to specific customer specifications, the company needed an efficient, cost-effective PDM solution to operate in concert with its SolidWorks 3D CAD software. In order to respond quickly to growing market demand for customized products, MDI decided to replace its existing PDM system with a better solution.
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07/02/2008 10:36 AM
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Design & Engineering Services: Marinovation |
We needed to generate 3D shapes.
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07/02/2008 10:28 AM
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Machinery: Makino Milling Machine Co. |
Makino Milling Machine Company, Ltd. manufactures machining centers, NC electrical discharge processing machines, FMS, and other metal mold processing machine tools. The company decided to adopt a 3D CAD environment to better visualize its designs. The challenge was to select software that allowed designers and non-designers to collaborate in the product development process.
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07/02/2008 08:58 AM
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Design & Engineering Services: 360 Grader Product Design AS |
One of the largest product design agencies in Norway, Oslo-based 360 Grader Product Design serves clients in businesses ranging from packaging and domestic products to military and medical equipment. To differentiate itself from competitors, 360 Grader needed to be able to deliver production-ready files. SolidWorks CAD software enabled the firm to do this, and, together with SolidWorks Simulation, allowed it to offer clients a complete product development solution.
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07/02/2008 08:54 AM
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Electronics: 3Com Corporation |
The challenge was to design a valve gearing for a 1927 steam locomotive. More specifically, the goal was to create a detailed model that included items such as drive rods and Walschaert valve gearings. Our in-house CAD program, CADKEY, was wireframe and the solids were difficult to use. Pro/ENGINEER was extremely difficult to use and posed licensing problems.
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07/02/2008 08:46 AM
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Medical: Zygote Media Group |
As a leading provider of 3D human anatomy content, Zygote Media Group, Inc. has experienced an increasing demand for anatomical CAD models to serve as templates for medical device manufacturers that are developing new lifesaving technologies. The growing number of requests for soft-tissue models like the heart prompted the company to evaluate available 3D CAD modeling and surfacing technologies for producing licensable, parametric
CAD models.
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07/02/2008 08:34 AM
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Consumer Products: Zenith Products Corporation |
Zenith Products Corporation is America?s leading manufacturer of bathroom storage and organizational products for the retail market. In order to to speed new product time-to-market and provide customers with the latest bathroom furniture designs in a variety of finishes, materials, and sizes. the company needed to move to a 3D CAD system.
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07/02/2008 08:11 AM
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Power & Process: Yaskawa Electric America, Inc. |
Yaskawa is the world's largest manufacturer of AC drives and motion control products, including adjustable frequency drives, servo amplifiers, servomotors, machine controllers, motion controllers, and robotics automation systems. Yaskawa Electric America, Inc. is a wholly-owned corporation of Yaskawa Electric Corporation of Japan. Since 1915, Yaskawa has served the world's needs for products that improve global productivity through automation and cost savings. As more and more of the industrial automation industry began using 3D CAD systems, particularly SolidWorks, Yaskawa desired to use a 3D CAD system to improve product development.
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07/01/2008 12:00 PM
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Consumer Products: Audio Products international |
Audio Products International (API) is a Klipsch Group Company, one of the industry leading manufacturers of home entertainment equipment. API designs, manufactures, and markets several of the world?s leading brands of high-performance audio loudspeaker systems. In 2003, the company upgraded its design engineers from the Mechanical Desktop design platform to Autodesk Inventor
3D CAD software to accelerate new product development, but instead encountered stability, compatibility, and capability problems.
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07/01/2008 11:54 AM
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Automotive & Transportation: ATW Advanced Assembly Automation |
ATW?s Advanced Assembly Automation (AAA) division manufactures component assembly and testing systems for
the automotive industry. The company transitioned from AutoCAD 2D software to the Autodesk Inventor 3D CAD
system in 2001. After using Inventor software for more than three years, management decided to rebenchmark its large-assembly CAD solution by running the SolidWorks 3D CAD system in parallel with Inventor software on an actual project.
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07/01/2008 11:51 AM
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Electronics: AT Systems Technologies Inc |
Many of the original part and assembly design concepts were derived singularly culminating in a complex and cumbersome product to manufacture. Adding more parts solved each new need for functionality. A new concept tool in which multiple part functionality could be integrated in order to reduce part and manufacturing costs was required.
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07/01/2008 11:22 AM
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Education: Art Center College of Design |
The Art Center College of Design is on the cutting edge of industrial design. The product design curriculum at Art Center helps students think visually and creatively as they learn design fundamentals and hands-on techniques for bringing new products to market. In the past, advanced CAD design programs were too expensive and complex for the majority of industrial designers and students to use. Industrial designers were limited to using sketches and 2D drawings to convey their concepts to production engineers, sacrificing subtlety of form and ergonomics in the process.
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06/30/2008 12:42 PM
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Automotive & Transportation: AP Racing |
For more than 30 years, AP Racing in the UK has been pushing the envelope, tweaking its high-performance clutch and brake system designs for race cars and motorcycles, sport cars, and specialty vehicles. In 1998, the company set out to re-shape its design process as customers increasingly demanded more clutch and brake performance in a shorter time frame. The previous design software required too much hands-on manipulation, which reduced the amount of troubleshooting and refinement engineers could perform. AP Racing engineers used several high-end CAD packages to design one of its products within a week to see which one would best attain its benchmarks for ease of use, speed, and functionality. Only SolidWorks 3D mechanical design software achieved the benchmarks.
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06/30/2008 12:33 PM
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Automotive & Transportation: Inertia Engineering + Design Inc. |
Inertia Engineering + Design Inc. (IE+D) is a leading supplier of fast-tracked, streamlined product design and engineering services to the automotive, motor sports, and manufacturing industries. The company needed a tightly integrated 3D development platform, including integrated analysis and PDM capabilities, to facilitate collaboration,
the handling of product data, and project management.
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06/30/2008 12:27 PM
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Education: Indian Institute of Technology, Dehli |
Located in Dehli, India, the Indian Institute of Technology offers a master's degree in Industrial Design. The school's graduates are placed in various automotive and product design firms around the world. While taking the two-year graduate course, students have to deal with many product design challenges, including plastic detailing, design presentations, renderings, and creating mock-up models.
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