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

 

How to create Effective Technical Documentation and Improve ROI using SOLIDWORKS COMPOSER

Objective

Clearly explain and present your product or process using 2D and 3D graphical content that you can quickly create with SOLIDWORKS Composer software.

Traditional Challenges in Consumer Product Industry

• Content creators are often working with different, cobbled together tools, including 2D CAD drawings, digital photography, and file translators.
• Bottleneck to business growth and competitiveness
• Too many manual steps to get to a finished document, and far too much back-and-forth activity.
• Spend too much of time in Manual changes in product as well as technical communication documents
• The whole process is therefore inefficient, slow, and disruptive to the Engineering Department and to the organization as a whole.

Intelligent Solutions for common pitfalls

1.Concurrent technical documentation

• Automate your technical communication process, and make it concurrent with the design process

2.Design, Document, Deliver Easily

• You can dramatically improve the quality, quantity, effectiveness, and customer appeal of your technical communication materials.
• Automatically generating current Bills of Materials (BOMs) with the push of a button, for inclusion in proposals or assembly instructions.

3.Business benefits abound

• Faster time to market. You can create documentation in parallel with product design and development, so products get to market faster.

4.Speed product success

• Engineers can spend more time designing and more easily create technical documents to communicate their work.
• Content creators can spend more time creating great content and less time chasing and updating data.

5.Automating manufacturing and assembly instructions

Summary

• As manufacturing organizations strive to identify ways to,

• save time
• cut costs and
• improve their competitiveness in global markets

• Your company can realize shorter times-to-market, improved operational efficiencies, and good quality documentation.

• More cost savings and also realize significant ROI within the first year.

• Manufacturers can improve profit margins, achieve faster times-to-market, and increase sales related to better customer education

 

How to get CONSUMER PRODUCTS Design Data under Control and improve Team Manage using SOLIDWORKS PDM?

What is PDM? 

In today's consumer products industry, industrial designers and mechanical engineers must work together to bring new products to market with cutting-edge design, market-leading functionality, and low manufacturing costs. 

Product data management (PDM) is the business function often within product lifecycle management (PLM) that is responsible for the management and publication of product data. 

What are the Goals? 

The goals of product data management include, 

ensuring all stakeholders share a common understanding, that confusion during the execution of the processes is minimized, and that the highest standards of quality controls are maintained. 

What is it Focus on? 

Product data management is focused on capturing and maintaining information on products and/or services through its development and useful life. Typical information managed in the PDM module include. 

Common challenges for Consumer Products Designer 

• More confusions in making file revisions 
• To do changes, copying entire data 
• Spending critical time for searching files or even deleted 
• No data security so anyone can access and make faulty corrections 
• Difficult to streamline detail information about data workflow around the global 
• Users may get frustrate in Data replication and synchronization. 

Possible Solutions can do in PDM 

1.Find the Data you are looking for fast: 

• Advanced searching tools inside Windows Explorer 
• Just input the specific information, make it easy 

2.Maintain Version and Revision History: 

• Versions are automatically created and references updated 
• Increment revisions automatically based on defined approval process 

3.Electronic Workflow: 

• Automatically send notifications to designated users and groups when files have modify/Change state 
• Easy to use graphical workflow tool 

4.Manage Non-Cad Data Easily 

• Easily produce customized bills of materials (BOMs) for individual departments
• Manage, view, and print document from more than 250 file types including major CAD formats, Microsoft Office files, images, and animations
• Automatically create neutral files, such as PDFs, eDrawingsTM or STEP 

5.Automate business processes 

• Utilize multiple workflows to handle different document types and approval processes
• Facilitate multiple required approvers with Parallel transitions 

6.Collaborate across boundaries 

• Search for data in multiple ways, using parameters such as document or file name, contained data, or custom properties like part number, description, and current workflow state (e.g., released or in process)
• Enable staff and partners to contribute through webenabled portals from various connected devices including smartphones and tablets

Summary

• Track and manage all changes to product related data 
  
• PDM enables easy and quick access for users on different locations and different times 
• Secure organisation data with powerful Vault creation 
• Eliminate Redundancy in finding the right files in consistent way 
• Spend less time organizing and tracking design data 
• Improve productivity through reuse of product design data 
• Enhance collaboration 
• Helps using visual management. 

 

Design Optimization Using SOLIDWORKS Configuration Publisher

Configuration Publisher provide a solution for design optimization. It is used to create
custom Property Manager for selecting configurations of parts and assemblies.
Configuration Publisher is placed in the property manager. Use the Property Manager
when adding a component to an assembly in SOLIDWORKS or when downloading a
model from 3D Content Central. To work with configuration Publisher, Microsoft Excel must
be installed on our system.

Configuration Publisher to control the ranges of features in the part to optimized
automatically in the design table. The Configuration Publisher dialog box, you can able to
create an interface for specifying configurations of parts and assemblies. It will use the
interface of SOLIDWORKS and 3DContentCentral.

1. Right click the top of the feature manager design tree and select the Configuration
Publisher as in Fig 1.

2. If you not create design table,The Configure Publisher to auto-create the design
table.click “Yes” In the confirm auto-create window as in Fig 2.
3. After click the “yes” tab to automatically open the dimension window,select the
dimensions to make the design table.

4. The Configuration Publisher box will then come up showing the different properties
(control box) that can be used to filter through the configurations. You set attributes for
each control in the available options vary depending on the control type and creation of
model variants.

It’s very useful to control over the Dimensions, Materials, Suppression states,etc. You
can drag the list box controls from the left in to middle to use, while the middle section the
edit tab is selected.
5. Selecting control boxes in the middle automatically open the attribute tab in the same
window right side. It allows to editing its properties on the attributes tab.

6. After editing is completed, click Apply for the changes to be reflect on to the model. Also
can share our mofidified model to web with the help of Upload to 3D Content Central.

7. When opening part file in assembly, configure component tab will open automatically
and set your input values.

Benefits:

• The configure Publisher which is used to Controlling part configurations, exploring design tables, creating a design table.
• This improves flexibility and lets you create more configurations.
• Create configurations and share them by automatically uploading your designs to 3D Content Central.
• It is used to reduce the time of the changes in the model designing.