Industrical Machinery

Case study

The challenge:

Time is money, so you need to make sure your processes are running as efficiently as possible. You need your designs to be right, first time and you need to reduce your time to market. Most of all, you need to be sure your great design ideas translate into the final product.

The solution :

GDS ME work with a large number of successful companies in the industrial machinery industry who benefit every day using a SOLIDWORKS software solution.

Customer success story: Glide-Line

Summary : Implement SOLIDWORKS Professional design, SOLIDWORKS Premium design and analysis, and SOLIDWORKS Composer technical communication software, and leverage the open SOLIDWORKS API in conjunction with the Automate open-source automation tool.

The SOLIDWORKS configurator has allowed us to deliver systems in half the time, and because the automation also helps reduce cost, we can deliver less expensive products faster than the competition.
Kevin Mauger
President

Glide-Line-United States

COMPANY

Glide-Line is a subsidiary of NCC Automated Systems, Inc., which has helped clients-including long- established brands like The Hershey Company, PepsiCo, Unilever, General Mills, Starbucks, Procter & Gamble, and Pinnacle Foods-overcome material handling challenges for over 30 years. The company needed to migrate from AutoCAD® 2D design tools to a 3D development platform to automate conveyor layout design through development of an intelligent, in-context configurator, which combines access to solid modeling tools, prices, part numbers, and capabilities in real time, instead of configurators that deliver “fixed” models with no built-in intelligence. Making models intelligent as well as incorporating advanced snap-to mating features, allowing multiple operational states, and allowing automatic ordering of configured systems-will streamline supplier interactions, save time, and reduce costs.

CHALLENGE

Develop 3D model library of conveyor components, assemblies, and subassemblies, and then combine it with intelligent mating technology via Application Programming Interface (API) manipulation to provide customers with real-time, in-context configuration, editing, and ordering of conveyor designs.

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