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Process Engineering Equipment Manufacturers adopt SolidWorks for Equipment Design
Process equipments such as Heat Exchangers, Condensers, Cyclones, Pre-Heaters, Centrifuges,
Dryers, Quench Column, Oxy Reactors, Scrubbers among others find high level of benefits
in using SolidWorks for mainstream Design. Increasingly many manufacturers
are adopting SolidWorks for development of detailed engineering designs due to the
following reasons:- Design Automation using a combination of Integration with Microsoft Excel, Visual Basic, VBA Macros and Configuration Management to design equipments and release drawings
- Integrated FEA & CFD using SolidWorks Simulation as well as SolidWorks Flow Simulation helps in performing design validation for performance efficiency, failure mode prediction, life estimation as well as strength/ vibration calculations
- Integrated Product Data Management using Enterprise PDM for Workflow management across the entire Enterprise with multi-locations
- Documentation Management - Development of
Manuals, Assembly Procedure among others that are necessary for vital communication
across various departments
Why should Equipment manufacturers implement SolidWorks 3D?
Various factors influence the cost of an equipment, profitability of the enterprise as well as image of the company. Imagine a situation wherein the supply of a product was accepted at low profit margin and the product was delivered late due to re-work, mis-match, incorrect Bill of Materials (BOM) or performance issue. More than 85% of the cost attributed to all of these challenges are influenced by design. These serve as bottlenecks in growth aspirations and profitability of any Engineering Enterprise.- Is Correctness and Completeness of Drawings according to Standards important?
- Is Cost Reduction target provided to all Departments including Design?
- Is Design Validation becoming a regular requirement to meeting product performance criteria?
- Is staying profitable becoming a challenge?
- Is development of new technologies and capabilities relevant for retaining/ capturing
market leadership?
When Standards drive Design, Why Invest in SolidWorks for Design?
Popular Standards such as ASME, TEMA, EJMA have been the basis for Engineering Design
Sizing Calculationns for equipments manufactured world-wide. Though Standards
provide guidelines for design considerations, it is incumbent upon the manufacturer
to ensure supply of efficient systems having higher reliabilty at lower costs !
In order to stay competitive manufacturers are required to provide designs that
address these challenges in more ways than one. Standards are insisting that
Finite Element Analysis be performed in addition to manual calculations. This
requires a 3D framework. Integrated FEA inside a Design environment using
SolidWorks offers the best choice in the market today.- Save Time - More
projects in the same time delivered using Flexibile Design Automation within SolidWorks.
- 2D DWGeditor - Every
license of SolidWorks empowers the usage of 3 licenses of DWGeditor for editing
legacy 2D drawing data without the need to invest in expensive 2D drawing software
- Value Engineeirng using
FEA and CFD Validation - Solidworks Simulation
and SolidWorks Flow Simulation helps determine
Factors of Safety, Fatigue Life Assessment, Efficiency estimation, Seismic Response,
prediction of vibration levels including Root Cause for Failure Analysis.
EGS India - We speak the Process Language !
EGS India - SolidWorks Reseller in India - has been working with numerous Process
equipment manufacturers in addressing their challenges in operational efficiency,
cost and time. Some of our experiences that have benefited our customers include:
- Failure mode Prediction, Life estimation and Enhancement for Process Equipments
- Reduction in Vibration levels and elimination of fatigue failures
- Pipe Stress analysis
- Seismic analysis for equipments
- Design of pumps, heat exchangers
- Design Automation of Heating Coil, Bellows (per EJMA) among others
Did You Know that Product Failure causes incalculable loss to Company Image? Design Validation helps address this and eliminate product failures - This Saves Time, Cost and Reputation !
