BRING PARTS TO LIFE - FLEXIBLE COMPONENTS

 Have you ever wanted to check the real time dynamic movement of a part in your 3D assembly?

Look no further, SOLIDWORKS 2020 introduces a new capability which brings your part to LIFE.

SOLIDWORKS prior to 2020 had the capability to show the working of a subassembly in the main assembly. Now with the new enhancement we can now also show the working a part in an assembly.

Some of the practical examples include

· Springs

· Bellows

· Hinges etc.

SPRING

BELLOW

HINGE

SPRING

BELLOW

HINGE

With the new enhancement you can massively increase efficiency in visualizing and validating assemblies with motion.

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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 Engineering Product Data Management plays vital role in Sheet Metal Industry ?

Product Data Management

Product

Anything that you design, develop, manufacture and make profit out of it.

Data

Files related to product design, development, manufacturing and process info.

Management

• Organizing the product & process info.
• Conquering the key challenges faced related to design data management area.
• Taking the process towards the destination with the flow.

Key challenges faced by the sheet metal industry related to engineering data management

1. Security of intellectual property.
2. Data leakage, deletion, modified.
3. Data Duplication.
4. Track & Locating legacy design data.
5. Version management.
6. Redundancy due to old revision in the shop floor.
7. Errors,time consumption,chaos due to manual Engineering Change Management.
8. Tons of drawing hard copies, ledgers, files, documentation requires space and individual to maintain it.
9. Pending of design approvals due to absence of authority.
10. Open access of design info to all stakeholders.
11. Control access of info sharing with internal & external stakeholders, suppliers, customers.
12. Robust to locate & track the info globally.
13. Searching a solution to build collaborate & concurrent working environment.
14. Impossible to revise MBOM (Manufacturing Bill of Material) from EBOM (Engineering Bill of Material) as BOM modification happens frequently at this stage before send it to the purchase department.

SOLIDWORKS Product Data Management

SOLIDWORKS Product Data Management Solutions

Vault (Centralized repository) protects the intellectual property (Design data & info).

• Most of the cases, their own machine acts as the server. Even in any exceptional case their server will be placed within their own location. So, there is no possibility of data leakage.
• Every individual needs authorization to access their info (Prevents data modification and deletion).
• Powerful search & reuse tool helps to track & locate the legacy design data with ease.
• Capture & Records all the design changes made from designers and make him aware of design changes made.
• Release only updated drawings to the shop floor (Rework is eliminated utterly).
• Avoids error due to manual process, automation of (ECR, ECN, ECO) process.
• Electronic info transfer (Utterly paperless), E-documents, E-files saves space, manhandling to maintain and to move it.
• Possible to approve and provide comments to the drawings with the electronic gadgets through E-drawing application. (As, it streamline the approval process).
• Controlled access provided to different person based upon their departments, roles & responsibility (Individual can able to access the info within their boundary).
• Possible to connect with suppliers, vendors, customers and restrict the info.
• Track & Locate the design info globally.
• Share,collaborate the design info and work concurrently from any part of the globe.
• Edit, compare, add EBOM & MBOM.

Summary:

• Optimize design cycle & throughput time.
• Reduces non-value added activities and the cost involved in it.
• Makes the product reaches the market faster (5x).
• Ease of use, as it is integrated with windows explorer interface.
• Simple installation.
• Implementation can be done within a month of time.
• Increases product & process quality.
• Possibility to integrate customized module based on client request through API.

 

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.