"We felt that the cost reduction in design we could achieve using Solid Edge, plus the ability to provide on-time product delivery to our clients, would enable us to enhance our reputation and get new customers. Other factors impacting selection included the depth and breadth of technology offered by Siemens Digital Industries Software and the support we saw from Siemens Digital Industries Software’s distributor/partner to understand and address our issues. With such complete 2D/3D functionality, we knew that Solid Edge would deliver unique capabilities to meet our needs."
"Solid Edge enables us to quickly handle design changes and assist customers in a timely fashion."
"In the first year with Teamcenter, we built more than 15,000 machines in several custom designs. I am positive that we would not have managed that without the digital transformation."
"Solid Edge is in every way competitive with our old system in terms of functionality. However, in Siemens Digital Industries Software, we have found a vendor that understands the needs of mid-size mechanical engineering companies and assures the sustainability of its software.”
“2D CAD design methods not only lack the capabilities for serious design, but are also unable to verify complex product designs. To ensure the accuracy of the products we develop, the designers generally needed to spend significant time in reviewing the drawings, which not only prolongs the design cycle but also results in a high rate of error in the drawings. This also meant an inability to ensure the quality, thus a high defect rate. Such manually-driven operations made it difficult to thoroughly check the drawings.”
“Customers now have access to an expanded variety of products and their requirements for these products are continuously mounting. In particular, as hydraulic equipment is used in the key processes of iron and steel work development, customers’ product specifications and the demand for better quality continue to grow. If customers’ requirements cannot be met, then no matter how favorable the pricing, they are not likely to buy.”
“The other issue that our company faces is ‘usage.’ Solid Edge is a very effective program that is easy to learn and use, providing great convenience to users for direct construction. New designers that join the team can learn and use Solid Edge easily and can be productive almost immediately.”
“We have one truth in all the company, and all the departments, they use the same information, so there is much less chance that we make mistakes.”
“Mechanical Desktop was not as comprehensive as we needed and some of the features didn’t work as well as we thought they should.”
“As a company, we want to be perceived as a leader and not a follower, and that means being the first to introduce new features.”
“The engineering challenges boil down to doing the math and meeting certain specifications and pumping rates, Every customer has their own set of requirements. This one wants this brand of pumps and this one likes this brand. It’s very challenging having to make a truck basically function the same but with different components. Also, the company must deal with short lead times and late-breaking customer requests. Sometimes our trucks are still being designed in final assembly."
“Using Simcenter Femap, we can perform rapid simulations to check the stress values of our parts, to make sure that we are on the right track during the earliest stages of product development. Simcenter Femap helps us quickly and intuitively validate our design choices and learn if any corrective action is required.”
“Insight permits the reuse of design data to a much greater extent because we can find existing information and we can trust it now. Also Insight has virtually eliminated problems such as saving the same file in multiple locations and overwriting another’s work.”