CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
8 September 2004
Implementation Investments
RuleStream Helps Thermal Solutions Leader Lytron Accelerate Product Design Time
RuleStream Corporation announced that thermal solutions leader Lytron is using RuleStream to reduce product design time. Lytron designs and manufactures cooling products for a wide range markets including electronics, medical, industrial and military.
With its highly specialized products and heavy workloads, Lytron needed to automate the design process for certain items in their product line, including heat exchangers, cold plates and chillers. After extensive research, the company found that RuleStream's solution best suited their needs.
Using RuleStream's easy-to-use rule capturing environment, Lytron was able to bring the software into operation for one of its product lines within just a few weeks.
Lytron's new product drawings can now be created by simply entering certain parameters (e.g. size). These parameters are used to modify a predefined product template and automatically generate a new drawing of the new part. This saves times and reduces the potential for error.
"This software enables us to design products in a much more efficient manner," said Chuck Marshall, Lytron's CAD design manager. "We estimate that we can cut design time by 20-80 percent, depending on the product, so RuleStream should pay for itself in time savings alone in less than one year."
"The thermal electronics industry is only one of the many markets that RuleStream serves," said RuleStream Chief Executive Officer David Vredenburgh. "As demonstrated with Lytron, our powerful build-to-order tools can bring tremendous savings to manufacturers who take customer-specific orders."
Lytron designs and manufactures high performance heat transfer systems and components. Its cooling products include recirculating chillers, non-refrigerated cooling systems, cold plates, aluminum oil coolers, copper tube fin heat exchangers, stainless steel tube-fin heat exchangers, and brazed-plate heat exchangers. For more information, contact Lytron at (781) 933-7300 or visit http://www.Lytron.com
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