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SolidWorks® provides the solution to create custom package handling machines, shorten lead time, and reduce costly mistakes throughout your design process.
Customer expectations grow increasingly demanding. The expected time to react and respond continues to shrink. At each phase of your design cycle your challenges and deliverables are different. You need to do more than ever in less time and SolidWorks® Office Premium can help you get there.
Responding to a Request for Proposal
You can no longer afford to take weeks to deliver a proposal for a job to your client. SolidWorks lets you leverage your previous projects for a proposal by quickly searching both your previous 2D and 3D designs to find a relative baseline. By easily finding a similar job from the past you can quickly generate proposal drawings and more efficiently estimate job costs to maintain profitability. You will be able to provide a more accurate proposal faster than your competition and with eDrawings™, include a digital version to make your customer feel more a part of the process. Faster response and better customer interaction will help set you apart from your competition.
Component Selection
Many of your machines are purchased from suppliers. The time you spend searching through outdated paper catalogs and then contacting a vendor for a latest version is wasted when you consider you still have to design the purchased part yourself to fit in the design. SolidWorks provides 3D ContentCentral(SM) to let you find vendors, configure components, and download a 3D model right in your design. So you can focus on your customer's design, not on your vendor's parts.
Mechanical Design
When designing in 2D you won't know if your parts fit together until final assembly. SolidWorks lets you build in design intent, making sure parts fit right the first time. Your machines have very complex high-speed moving parts. The kinematic simulation capabilities in SolidWorks software let you optimize your designs in the virtual world. In 2D you can't test your design until a time when changes are very expensive and cause missed deadlines. SolidWorks lets you know your parts will fit together and allows you to visualize how mechanisms will work in 3D.
Manufacturing and Assembly
As you finalize your design, a parts list must go to purchasing and drawings to manufacturing, all before you can start assembling and testing. In 2D you have no guarantee the design is correct or your parts list is complete. With SolidWorks you will have accurate 2D or 3D for machining and an up-to-date parts list for your purchasing agent. There are always changes to any design and with SolidWorks, any change will be reflected throughout your design while versions are automatically managed in PDMWorks®.
Project Documentation
Even though the machine may be assembled and the cables are being strung there is always one more part of your customer deliverables, manuals, and maintenance documents. In 2D you spend a significant amount of time redrawing portions of the design to document the machine for your customer. SolidWorks will allow you to leverage the 3D assembly to quickly create detailed exploded diagrams, completing the project and guaranteeing your documentation will always be on the same version as the machine the customer receives.
SolidWorks can improve your design process at every corner, making you more profitable and competitive. Contact us for more information.
CATI offers a variety of Technology Solutions for the Machine Design / Packaging Industry. Below we have listed some of our most popular options for machine designers. In addition, we have put together a Value Machine Designer Bundle featuring the following technology, training and support options.
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