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PARANTHAMAN EXPORTERS ACCELERATING DRILLING RIG DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION WITH SOLIDWORKS SOLUTIONS

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Paranthaman Exporters relies on SOLIDWORKS design and analysis solutions to accelerate the development and validation of custom-designed drilling rigs for oil and gas exploration, and other applications. Challenge Faced: Accelerate the development and validation of custom-designed drilling rigs for oil and gas exploration, and other applications. Solution from SOLIDWORKS: Implement SOLIDWORKS Standard design, SOLIDWORKS Professional design, and SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional analysis software solutions. Benefits Earned from SOLIDWORKS: • Cut development time by 50 percent • Doubled custom rig development throughput • Reduced rig weight by 10 percent • Resolved fabrication and assembly issues Paranthaman Exporters is the export division of PRD Rigs, a leading Indian manufacturer of drilling rigs for oil and gas exploration, and other applications. Founded in 1972, Paranthaman Exporters has designed, manufactured, and exported more than 350 rigs to various count...

UNDERSTANDING CONNECTORS IN SIMULATION

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The methods of joining components together is becoming quite simple among the designers during the design process . The component joining methods can either be a welding, bolting or adhesives etc. This job becomes more easy on the assembled components prioritizing the material specifications with its respective thickness & sizes. In a cost effective way SolidWorks offers the designers to understand all these problems relating to weld sizing or the right choice of Bolts. The Users can make use of the default options for Pins, Bolts, Springs, Welds & other connectors for assemblies. In Simulation , working with connectors is much easy to understand its behavior in our designs. The SolidWorks users can directly convert the smart components like Bolts & Nuts to Bolt connectors for analysis on assemblies. During the conversion process, the Head diameter, shank diameter & the pre-load conditions will automatically be taken into consideration. For the manual select...

Automate Your Design Using SOLIDWORKS

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SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software gives designers and engineers powerful tools to speed up design variants and automate repetitive design tasks. The Design process can save time and development costs by accelerating the productivity.  SOLIDWORKS automation and configuration tools simplify the reuse of existing design data to create new designs. Designers and engineers can configure design data and document quickly by creating new designs. By this way, the product development time is reduced to focus on innovating new products.   SOLIDWORKS design reuse and automation tools include: Design automation - Streamline the creation of similar parts Parts and Assembly Configuration - Generate simple, complex, or similar versions of your design Design Automation SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD tools automate repetitive design tasks, benefiting companies making custom products for bid/RFP, as well as high volume manufacturers. SOLIDWORKS design automation tools include: DriveWorksXpre...

SolidWorks 2017 - Bewitching Enhancements

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SOLIDWORKS is one of the emerging tool which always gives the Users with updated technology year by year. This year's updates are : Magnetic Mates: Let your product assemble with the power of Magnetism Wrap Feature: Wrap your sketches over any surface. Sheet Metal delighters: Create corner relief where three bends meet at one common point. Normal cut is much more extended to deliver better results, and Punch Table support for Mirrored & Derived parts. Advanced Holes: With better and advanced definition of Holes the updated version can group favorites for Hole features & add appearances. Drawing: Emphasizing Outlines for Drawing section views & Jagged outlines to differentiate among edges. eDrawings: The best communication tool will now support STEP, IGES, CATIA, Inventor & 3D XML files. SolidWorks Simulation : Stress Hot Spot detection & Diagnostics tool will now give a better experience in visualizing the analysis results for the users. More i...

SOLIDWORKS INFLUENCE IN COST, TIME AND QUALITY

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In a Design and manufacturing industry, it’s important to be committed to Cost, Time and Quality; these three play a vital role towards organization growth and winning market. Compromising in any one will lead to adverse effect in organizational growth, hence these becomes the key dimensions that measure the competence and effectiveness in impact that an organization can create on customer, product and service. Further companies today are always seeking ways to increase efficiency by lowering time and costs without compensating quality. Factors that affect Cost, Time and Quality Effectiveness of the right tool to convert concept to design Complexity in design process Skill level of the employee Prototype testing in real time to validate product reliability Time consuming quality checks and documentation Uncontrolled pr...

SolidWorks Electrical Solutions for Control Panel Design

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Control panel Control Panel is a cabinet made up of sheet metal form, which enhouses lot of electrical and electronic components. Ultimately, designed and built to meet the customer Automation needs. Challenges Faced in Control Panel Design: Optimizing the Routing of Wires to save Cost Need for Intelligence in Sheetmetal handling to make immediate changes Respond to Customer Requirements or Design Change and update the Project Interference and Clearance Check between Wiring and Electrical Components  Accurate generation of BOM/BOQ (Bill of Materials/Quantity)  Control Diagram & Power Diagram creation Reducing Manual errors and Mismatch of Electrical Components. Solidworks Workflow for Control Panel Design: Control Panel Design starts with the creation of SLD (Single Line Diagram), followed by the detailed Schematic diagram.             Schematic Diagram...

Adaptive Methods of Meshing

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SolidWorks Simulation offers the user for error estimation with the adaptive methods. These methods are mainly focussed on the approach of improving the accuracy of results for the simulation studies. In the domain of approach towards the accuracy of results, FEA provides major development in estimating errors. Thus, mesh refinement has major role towards this development process. The adaptive meshing is a tool which iteratively varies the mesh settings for the model without the manual interference. SolidWorks Simulation has two adaptive methods i.e. p-adaptive & h-adaptive. The h-adaptive meshing physically adjusts the size of the cell in areas of the model where smaller mesh is required. The p-adaptive meshing normally adjusts the polynomial order of the mesh to improve the accuracy of the results. The user can directly select any of the option inside the software. h-adaptive meshing technique: Varies the refinement level Varies the density of the mesh ...