SolidWorks Case Studies

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		<description>Learn how SolidWorks customers get products to market faster</description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Machinery: Hartness International]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:41:35 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Hartness International manufactures custom packaging machinery for a variety of consumer and commercial product markets. To stay competitive in a fast-changing industry, the company needed to deliver a new product to market in two months. The company's 2D CAD software did not offer the capabilities the engineering staff needed to meet that tight time frame.]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Consumer Products: Daka International Ltd.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:31:10 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Daka International Ltd. is an award-winning design and development company from Hong Kong, is a leader in applying technology to consumer products and has developed a strong intellectual property portfolio. As designers and engineers, our work is varied. Daka and its sub-contractor – MAS Design Products Ltd. – wanted a CAD system that combines ease of use with power, so that even though we are not full-time CAD operators, we can quickly tackle complex geometry problems, find solutions, and use the system to drive design data from concept design through to the marketing, manufacturing, and documentation processes.]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Automotive & Transportation: RevoPower, Inc.]]></title>
			<author>webmaster@solidworks.com (Webmaster)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:34:54 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[RevoPower, Inc. developed The Wheel, a bicycle wheel with a completely self-contained engine and gear train that transforms almost any bicycle into a motor-assisted vehicle.  The company needed a 3D CAD system to complete the design and overcome the difficult challenges associated with compressing the engine and gear train into a confined space between the forks of a bicycle and producing design visuals for use in securing funding from investors.]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Medical: ALM - Groupe GETINGE]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:53:01 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ALM, the premier provider of medical lighting equipment, designs, manufactures, and distributes surgical equipment for operating rooms around the world.  Groupe Getinge, the parent company, specializes in the design of sterilization and sanitization products.  After its acquisition, ALM challenged itself to introduce innovative products, reduce development costs, and shorten design cycles.  To achieve these goals, the design team needed parametric 3D CAD software.]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Consumer Products: Cool Gear International Inc.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:52:20 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Cool Gear International Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets an innovative line of freezer bottles, storage containers, and entertaining products that use a reusable “freezer gel” to keep drinks and food cold for longer periods of time. As the company’s product line expanded, Cool Gear designers needed to move from the graphics design packages they had used to a 3D CAD system to support large-scale manufacturing operations.]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Design & Engineering Services: I.T. Engineering Company]]></title>
			<author>webmaster@solidworks.com (Webmaster)</author>
			<link><![CDATA[http://www.solidworks.com/pages/successes/viewsuccess.html?record=471]]></link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:57:44 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I.T. Engineering provides a full range of mechanical and electrical engineering services to surrounding Cincinnati area companies. With many of their clients using SolidWorks software, the design team needed to determine if SolidWorks would be a universally accepted package amongst new clients as well.]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Electronics: KryoTech, Inc.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:08:51 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[KryoTech, Inc., a privately held spin-off from NCR Corporation, develops innovative cooling systems for the personal computers employed by designers, engineers, and other users. The company needed the most advanced and cost-effective design and engineering tools available to capitalize on market opportunities and stay ahead of competitors. Specifically, the company needed an easy-to-use, fast, powerful, and affordable CAD system with both assembly and fully integrated engineering features including heat transfer analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and CNC machining capabilities.]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Consumer Products: Mustad Longline AS]]></title>
			<author>webmaster@solidworks.com (Webmaster)</author>
			<link><![CDATA[http://www.solidworks.com/pages/successes/viewsuccess.html?record=2960]]></link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:44:32 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Mustad has been known for more than 100 years as the world's largest manufacturer of fish hooks. With 1000 employees and factories in Norway, Singapore, Philippines, Portugal, Brazil, and China, the company had sales of US$74 million in 2005. The company designed  machinery with AutoCAD but found they needed a 3D CAD system to increase efficiency.]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Design & Engineering Services: Ovidiu Opresco Studios]]></title>
			<author>webmaster@solidworks.com (Webmaster)</author>
			<link><![CDATA[http://www.solidworks.com/pages/successes/viewsuccess.html?record=488]]></link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:21:02 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Ovidiu Opresco Studios specializes and excels in web design and development, graphic design, packaging design, solid modeling, 3D animation, new product development, and engineering. A self-taught engineer, I needed a versatile 3D modeling package capable of producing realistic product models for web and promotional animation. In one particular instance, a client asked, "What software do you need to produce high-impact realistic 3D product animation?" The very next day, a SolidWorks reseller called to arrange delivery of a SolidWorks package, compliments of the client. SolidWorks CAD software provides me with extraordinary solid modeling power.]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Mold, Tool & Die: Outdoor Technologies, Inc.]]></title>
			<author>webmaster@solidworks.com (Webmaster)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:20:41 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Outdoor Technologies Inc. (OTI) manufactures vinyl fencing,
decking, and railing products, which have become increasingly popular alternatives to wood. The company
migrated from its AutoCAD 2D design tools to the Autodesk Inventor 3D design package for product development
in 2003, with the dual goal of increasing productivity while improving design visualization and communication. After six months, OTI engineers became dissatisfied with Inventor software and decided to evaluate other 3D CAD systems.]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Design & Engineering Services: Nexxon Design]]></title>
			<author>webmaster@solidworks.com (Webmaster)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:52:27 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Our goal was to offer a solid engineering process coupled with a nice design. To achieve this, we needed to increase communication between engineers and technicians.]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Consumer Products: NEXO]]></title>
			<author>webmaster@solidworks.com (Webmaster)</author>
			<link><![CDATA[http://www.solidworks.com/pages/successes/viewsuccess.html?record=405]]></link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:51:19 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[NEXO is among Europe's top three sound reinforcement loudspeaker manufacturers.  Our goal was to design high performance speakers with an innovative look. Overall, we needed to increase the quality of their finished product.]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Power & Process: Newpoint Gas Services]]></title>
			<author>webmaster@solidworks.com (Webmaster)</author>
			<link><![CDATA[http://www.solidworks.com/pages/successes/viewsuccess.html?record=3085]]></link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:49:14 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Newpoint Gas Services designs and builds processing plants for purifying natural gas for distribution, specializing in amine facilities.  The company's process removes everything from water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, arsenic, and many other materials from natural gas. The company needed the ability to take its drawings to any fabrication shop in the country (or internationally) to have its plants manufactured. This requirement demanded an accurate 3D model for visualizing everything from walkways to valve access to basic interferences.]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Consumer Products: Naber Plastics B.V.]]></title>
			<author>webmaster@solidworks.com (Webmaster)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:39:38 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Naber Plastics is a leading plastics injection-molding company, specializing in the production of multimedia packaging. In addition to the standard packaging types that can be delivered directly from stock, Naber produces eye-catching packaging for CDs, CDRs and CD-ROMs, with unique designs, special coloring, or customized printing. It also has a fast-growing division producing disposable products. The company needed one 3D CAD package for product design, engineering, evaluation, and presentations, as well as for quickly producing different product configurations and easily communicating with the tooling group.]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Consumer Products: Mueller GmbH]]></title>
			<author>webmaster@solidworks.com (Webmaster)</author>
			<link><![CDATA[http://www.solidworks.com/pages/successes/viewsuccess.html?record=492]]></link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:33:48 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Mueller GmbH, a woodworking company based in Germany, designs, manufactures, and sells more than 200 types of wood exterior doors each year. The challenge was to find a 3D CAD package that offered an easy-to-use, Windows-based interface, easy rendering of photorealistic images, strong customer service through resellers, and an affordable price.]]></description>
			
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