Challenges

• Get and retain design talent
• Convert concepts to details fast and correct
• Validate designs
• Avoid mis-understanding of design
• Duplicated / lost designs

Solutions 

• Setting up design platform, CAD process and continuous training and upgradation
• R&D on making your concept-to-design process efficient
• Product and service in structural / thermal / flow / mechanism analysis
• Tools for drawing auto-creation / checking / view / markup
• Data Management Solution

Successes

Technofour Electronics

Challenges

• New shapes feasibility
• Feeding and sealing validation
• Innovation for increasing packs / min
• Mechanism performance & reliability

Solutions

• Complex modeling and design studies
• Design automation for freeing designers for more innovation
• 3D concept development
• Structural and Mechanism Validation

Successes

IMA PG

Challenges

• Smart library of subsystems
• Geometry import
• Quick and accurate BOM and drawings
• Cost calculations

Solutions

• Design standardization / automation
• Systematic translation and selective usage of lightweight geometry
• Templates, metadata, BOM formats and use of model items for drawing creation
• Set up costing templates and rules for automated costing

Successes

Dran Engineers

Challenges 

• Complex modeling
• Geometry import
• Die face extraction process standardization
• Person dependency
• Diemold design validation

Solutions

• Surfacing and alternate modeling methods
• Systematic translation and process for selective usage of lightweight data
• Mold tools and design automation
• 3D concept development
• Plastic flow simulation

Challenges 

• Incorporate std codes (ASME, etc)
• Design validation
• Equipment mockup
• Time consuming piping design

Solutions

• Design automation and standardization
• Structural, thermal and flow simulation
• Hybrid modeling techniques to suit the purpose
• Auto-routes, pipe fittings library, piping design utility

Successes OK

Veeraja Industries

Challenges

• Costly field failures
• Cost pressures
• Time consuming calculation and detailing
• Person dependency

Solutions

• FMEA and structural simulation
• Design optimization using FEA and design studies
• Design automation
• Knowledge capture and integration

Challenges 

• Person dependency
• Automated and appealing quotation
• Time consuming product R&D and refinements
• Complex geometry pettern design

Solutions

• Correlate practical designs with simulation
• Design automation
• Flow simulation
• Mold tools, design standardization

Successes

Kishor Pumps

Challenges

• Systematic and accurate sheet devt
• Nesting
• Costly errors
• Geometry to sheetmetal conversion process
• Costing calculation

Solutions

• Best in class sheetmetal concept to detail design platform
• Design automation
• Design process setup for de-skilling of work
• Various alternate methods of creating sheetmetal geometry from concept
• Setup of costing templates for automated costing

Successes

Horizon chutes

Challenges

• Quick 3D concept creation
• Cost calculations
• Aesthetic shape creation
• Design validation

Solutions

• 3D concept development
• Design automation
• Geometry-based approach to aesthetic designs
• Structural and flow simulation

Challenges

• Data import / export
• Automotive rules compliance
• Design validation
• System integration
• Reliability engineering

Solutions 

• Systematic translation of lightweight geometry
• Design automation and standardization
• Structural / mechanism / flow simulation
• Virtual mockup and design studies
• Fatigue / frequency / thermal simulation

Successes

Tata Marcopolo

Challenges

• Data import / export
• Value engineering
• Tooling design

Solutions

• Reverse engineering
• Design optimization
• New concept development
• Surfacing tools
• Mold tools

Successes

Galactic Electric

Challenges

• Simple method of 3D housing design
• Design validation
• Elec-mech design integration
• Errors in BOM
• Time consuming library creation

Solutions

• 3D concept design
• Thermal analysis
• Industry standard design collaboration platform
• Automated mech and elec BOM
• Readymade electrical library of manufacturer parts

Successes

Jayashree encoders