CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

26 February 2005

Implementation Investments

Case Study - How Design Automation Achieves Significant Time Reduction & Cost Savings for US Manufacturer

DriveWorks User Nick Benner - Mechanical Engineer of Granco Clark will present at Solid Modelling and reveal the cost and time savings achieved since moving from 2D to 3D CAD and since implementing DriveWorks for automating the custom design process.

His company had been searching for a KBE / Design Automation solution for almost two years. "We can now create a set of manufacturing drawings for a 3500 piece assembly with over 300 unique components in less that an hour. Typically that used to take around eighty hours."

The presentation will also reveal how Granco Clark has:

•  Shortened design cycle by 25 percent

•  Cut re-engineering and rework by 50 percent

•  Reduced drawing errors by 50 percent

•  Improved design visualization and presentation capabilities

Headquartered in Belding, Michigan, Granco Clark is the leading North American manufacturer of automated aluminum extrusion equipment. The company's custom heating and handling equipment automates the process of manufacturing extrusions from heated aluminum billets. These are used in many different industries for a variety of product applications. Each Granco Clark aluminum extrusion system is custom-designed for a specific customer's unique needs, so no two systems are identical.

Nick Benner is a mechanical engineer with over 10 years experience in machine design. In that time he has used many different CAD systems. He has been the CAD system administrator at Granco Clark for three years and a beta tester for SolidWorks for several years. He was recently a presenter at SolidWorks World 2005 in Orlando, Florida.

 

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