SOLIDWORKS SOLUTIONS FOR POWER AND PROCESS

Design Challenges Faced in Power and Process Industry

1. Optimizing work flow for specialized domains such as piping, tubing and welding.
2. Errors in design resulting in engineering rework and delays
3. A bottleneck appears when overlooking a entire product which was developed under various CAD Software due to various constrains
4. Unexpected Failure faced at higher pressure operation
5. The life of the product not able to predict, due to that maintenance overtime and process productivity is critical

Addressing these Challenge through SOLIDWORKS Solutions.

1. In SolidWorks we don’t need to spend our time on designing standard parts and components, where all the standard components are available in design library itself which can be obtained by simple drag and drop. For further validation of the product those standard can be directly fetched in SolidWorks Simulation.

 

Fig1: Design Library

2. SOLIDWORKS helps to eliminate the rework in design process by using design table automation, DriveworksXpress and customized integrated automation solutions.
3. Now with SOLIDWORKS you can import and export different types of cad files and neutral file formats.

Fig2:supported File Formats

4. Failure can be avoided by predicting different pressure operation at various temperatures for the given Product in the development Stage itself.

Fig3:Displacement analysis

5. The life and damage of the product would be predicted depending upon its working cycle over a period of time. Through the process, we can pre-schedule maintenance so that process productivity will be efficient.

Fig4: Fatigue analysis

Benefits of SOLIDWORKS using Power &Process industry

• Eliminate reworks and save your time.
• Reduce development cost & overall cast of the design.
• Easily automated the layout design in full plant
• The repeated documentation can be reduced.
• Validation of designs for efficiency and performance.

Customer Voice:

“We spent so much time trying to communicate design intent in 2D drawings—time that is completely eliminated when you present a realistic 3D rendering of a concept using SOLIDWORKS”

- Gary Hager 

Senior Project Manager/Engineer

 

SOLIDWORKS Solutions for Industrial Equipment Industry

Industrial Equipment Design:
SOLIDWORKS integrated product development solutions cover the full range of modelling, simulation, and communication that machine builders need in order to accelerate time-to-market of new machines while reducing costs and ensuring greater safety and reliability. We cover all aspects of product development, offering tools that help you conceptualize, visualize, test, and document your 3D designs.

Challenges faced by Industrial Equipment Industry:

• Developing derivative products in a cost effective manner.
• Too much time spent creating, updating and managing engineering drawings.
• Accurately machining parts without reworking 3D data
• Aligning manufacturing and assembly with engineering intent
• Information such as Bill of Materials and drawings must be synchronized
• Fluctuations in raw material costs adds increased complexity to the bidding process.
• BOM is automatically generated from design so purchasing list will be accurate.
• Visualization and management of large assembly designs.

SOLIDWORKS Solutions Proposed :

• SOLIDWORKS Design tools help ensure that the most complex of designs can be developed with the least amount of effort.
• Interference checking reduces assembly problems and the need for prototypes.
• SolidWorks Simulation tools help engineers to ensure that a device’s behaviour will be within design limits, reliable, and avoid thermal or stress-induced failures.
• Assembly Modelling enables clients to represent and interact with large scale assemblies in real time.Portable data format which can be used to communicate product drawings, capability and aesthetics for company, customers and partners.
• Ability to show the customer different configurations that support their assembly processes in real time.
• BOM is automatically generated from design so purchasing list will be accurate.
• 3D Content Central and Toolbox help save time by providing easy access to the latest 3D vendor components.

Benefits:

• Greater ability to deliver quality and productivity to OEMS.
• Design functional and manufacturing design at the same time.
• Improved design communication and documentation.
• Shortened prototyping and analysis time, reduced scrap and rework.
• Shortened time to make design changes by 90%
• Analysis conducted parallel with development work.

SOLIDWORKS Customer Testimonial:
“In 2D, we wouldn’t have known what we had until we built it. With SOLIDWORKS, we can show the customer different configurations that support their assembly processes.”

Bill Parmentier, Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer

RTS Wright Industries

 

Costing template for Machining using SOLIDWORKS