Streamlining the Design of Industrial Machinery and Heavy Equipment

SUMMARY

In today’s increasingly competitive global market, manufacturers of industrial machinery or heavy equipment face daunting development challenges. The need to accelerate product time-to-market, control costs, and improve product complexity requires that you modernize your product development systems and implement 3D-based design technologies. Taking advantage of a 3D CAD environment enables you to outpace competitors by developing and producing better machines in a shorter time—and at a lower cost.

Introduction

When it comes to product development processes, the machinery industry is divided into two categories: machines that are designed from concept for one specifc customer, and those that are designed to be sold in volume to many, as-yet-undetermined customers.

Machines that are designed for a specifc customer usually start out as a Request for Proposal (RFP) from a company to build a custom machine to do a specifc task. A typical example of this category is packaging machines that are custom-built for a particular packaging purpose. Since these machines are custom-built to ft into a factory or into an existing system of other machinery— and often are fully customized, one-off designs—they cannot be easily reused or reconfgured to serve other purposes.

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