Engineering Services – CADVision Systems SOLIDWORKS

Konica Monilta 3DEXPERIENCE Case Study

Chris Chan — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 04:30:08 +0000

Konica Minolta Business Solutions (M) Sdn. Bhd.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions, a leader in advanced document management technologies and Managed IT Services for the desktop to the print shop, brings together unparalleled advances in security, print quality and network integration.

Konica Minolta is committed to digitally transforming businesses with the goal of helping them save time and improve productivity. From information management to technology-enabling tools, Konica Minolta Business Solutions offers a suite of services and hardware so businesses can access information at a faster pace, support mobility, and optimize business processes with workflow automation. The company also offers digital manufacturing solutions and state-of-the-art technology, and continues to grow its organic print business covering office printing, production, and industrial printing.

THE CHALLENGE

Due to the vast range of services offered, it is critical to enhance data management in order to reduce rework expenses and revision errors while also speeding up the development of production tooling for the production of high-tech multifunction copiers and office equipment.

THE SOLUTION

Add modeling, design, collaboration, communication, and data management solutions from the 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio on the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform—including 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS, 3D Creator, Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS, Collaborative Business Innovator, and Collaborative Industry Innovator—to its existing SOLIDWORKS implementation.

“We have been able to reduce design time because everyone is able to collaborate easily and efficiently on the platform and can access our development environment at any time and from any location. It’s much easier to find the correct data. Design reviews and workflows overall are faster. In short, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform makes collaboration more efficient and effective, which saves time.”

Mohammad AzwanSenior Group Leader

SUCCESS METRICS

Cut development cycles by 25 percent
Eliminated rework and associated costs
Improved and automated data management
Replaced Microsoft Teams with 3DEXPERIENCE platform as communications channelList Title

Dimonte Group

webmaster — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:35:57 +0000

Dimonte Group

The DiMonte Group performs industrial design, engineering, drafting, model shop services, and complete product development for commercial and industrial clients.

The Challenge

The DiMonte Group performs industrial design, engineering, drafting, model shop services, and complete product development for commercial and industrial clients. The company owns several CAD systems but we went to SolidWorks to support design collaboration and ensure clear communications with clients.

The Solution

We use the SolidWorks suite of engineering tools to address engineering and design concerns in all the different stages of product development to reduce time to market and solve engineering problems the first time. The parametric capabilities allow industrial designers to make sculptural shapes that can be manufactured and to change them easily. SolidWorks Simulation reveals design problems, allowing designers and engineers to collaborate and fix them on-screen, sometimes reducing a month of physical prototype development to an afternoon and often eliminating spending on prototypes. Communication tools like SolidWorks’ animation capabilities, SolidWorks eDrawings, and PhotoWorks are intuitive, so everyone can use them with a little training. SolidWorks eDrawings enable us to communicate clearly with clients and vendors – which is critical to reducing costs and time to market. We can annotate an eDrawing and point out where changes might provide savings during production. Clients can animate an eDrawing in 3D to see what a part really looks like. This allows them to give us feedback that improves performance – and makes the product successful before it is built.

Success Metric

Realized 30-40% increase in productivity gains
Using SolidWorks has saved our clients over $1 million dollars in development costs within the past 8 years
Quality of delivered designs is 2 to 3 times better per phase than with previous software tools
Increased marketshare by 25%-plus consistently for the last 5 years

DAKA Designs Limited

webmaster — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:34:14 +0000

DAKA Designs Limited

Daka chose SolidWorks software to produce the SEA-DOO SEASCOOTER DOLPHIN ecause it provided the most efficient approach to meet the challenging design deadline.

The Challenge

Daka, a Hong Kong -based leading designer, developer, and marketer of inventive consumer products, set the dive propulsion vehicle (DPV) market on its head with the introduction of the SEA-DOO SEASCOOTER DPV, selling more than 100,000 units and creating a new product category in the process. The company thrives on executing a strategy based on developing innovative products that will establish new global consumer markets. Following the success of the original SEASCOOTER DPV, the group decided to pursue the broader pool accessory and family recreation market by introducing a lightweight, compact DOLPHIN water scooter.

The Solution

To best achieve this goal, Daka decided to implement the SolidWorks 3D design platform to reduce development cycles and shorten time-to-market. With SolidWorks software, Daka’s design team was able to produce the DOLPHIN water scooter in just six and a half months, as opposed to the 13-month design cycle for the SEASCOOTER – a reduction of 50 percent.

Success Metric

Reduced design cycle by 50%
Cut development costs by 50%
Expedited tooling and mold development
Reaped significant market share due to accelerated time-to-market

Nexus Design LLC

webmaster — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:30:13 +0000

Nexus Design LLC

Nexus Design LLC performs contract product design and development work – from core concept through detailed, production-ready files for a range of industrial, medical, and consumer products companies.

The Challenge

Nexus Design LLC performs contract product design and development work – from core concept through detailed, production-ready files – for a range of industrial, medical, and consumer products companies. Our goal is to create products that are pleasing to the eye, easy to use, and simple to manufacture. We did 2D design of complicated parts for years and knew there must be a better way. The need to move efficiently from design to tooling of plastic parts was instrumental in us choosing SolidWorks as our CAD package. The addition of SolidWorks Simulation for FEA analysis of stress details has become very valuable to us.

The Solution

We evaluated several CAD packages, but chose SolidWorks CAD software because it was easy to learn and very capable. Similarly, in SolidWorks Simulation we found an integrated solution to stress/strain analysis with no separate geometry interpreters necessary and no limits on the number of nodes nor configuring of grid shape and size. The tutorials made for easy learning, so we could be effective in a number of days, and the results were consistent without widely varying based on meshing configurations. The ability to modify features easily in the feature tree to make revisions to a design concept has proven very valuable to our ability to create presentations of early concepts so we can proceed quickly. With SolidWorks eDrawings we can show prospects what the product might look like or how is going to work or fit together. It convinces them that we have a good grip on the issues.

Success Metric

Reduced design time by 50 percent
Lowered development costs by 40 percent
Reduced design errors by 45 percent
Increased sales by 40 percent
Reduced number of ECOs by 50 percent
Reduced prototype fabrication costs by 45 percent
Eliminated 40 percent of scrap