CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
21 June 2013
Implementation Investments
ZW3D Helps Lap Keung Improve Metal Components Designs for Luxury Brands
ZWSOFT announced on June 20 that ZW3D, its cost-effective CAD/CAM solution, was selected by Lap Keung for better luxury designs, to realize a remarkable leap from 2D drafting to 3D modeling.
Founded in 1981, Lap Keung has been specialized in the manufacturing of precision watch components, fashion accessories, and metal parts for leather-goods. With the latest technologies and the most up-to-date facilities, they managed to provide high-quality products mainly exported to luxury top-branded companies in Japan, Switzerland and other European countries.
The Needs
Lap Keung’s clients, the top-branded luxury enterprises, have extremely strict standards for their suppliers. In the past, Lap Keung was mainly engaged in 2D CAD design with the supplement of 3D software only for complex modeling, while now they are facing an increasing demand on 3D design at a higher level. As the extra charges and upgrading costs may be a heavy burden to their business, they intend to find a piece of cost-effective and affordable 3D design software.
The Solution
In 2011, Lap Keung started using ZW3D on a trail basis. The superior performance can fully satisfy the strict manufacturing requirements of luxury brands, which convinced Lap Keung to replace their existing foreign 3D design software with ZW3D Standard. In 2013, Lap Keung purchased ZW3D Professional again for more advanced 3D modeling at the cost of a quarter of their existing foreign software, which enabled Lap Keung to achieve the transition from traditional 2D drafting to advanced 3D modeling without paying too much.
“When designing watch cases, chains and other hardware fittings, we frequently use surface modeling,” said Mr. Liu, Engineer of Design Department of Lap Keung. ”The powerful surface modeling of ZW3D is easy to use. In comparison with other mainstream software, it brings greater convenience and efficiency to our daily work with clear navigation and parametric features.”
The Service
ZWSOFT is extending after-sale services as a complement to products. ”We cannot surf the Internet during working hours for the protection of trade secrets, and it increases the difficulties for learning new software,” said Mr. Chen, Engineer of IT Department. ”While fortunately, ZW3D’s technical team provided tailor-made training courses, using our products as examples to present the features of ZW3D, coupled with tutorials, videos and seminars, and we easily mastered ZW3D after a few days of training.”
“it’s a worthwhile investment to choose ZW3D,” Mr. Chen added. ”It has greatly improved our working efficiency.”
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