Reverse Engineering Solutions: Eliminating Metal Support Structures. Owing to the lower fabrication costs, higher durability and easy availability, sheet metal parts are extensively used in the industrial machinery, especially for enclosures and fixtures.
Physical properties of light weight and relatively high hardness make aluminum and cast iron the two most popularly choices. But all this is a fancy picture. Today sheet metal parts used in industrial machine tools have aged, and owing to longer service life, such parts undergo massive wear and tear, exposure to extreme work conditions and get corroded. Such issues lower the efficiency of the sheet metal parts and eventually make them run out of usual functioning capability. Foremen’s thumb rule approach Especially when a sheet metal fixture on a machine tool is worn out, the challenges are at peak. Ideally, such misalignment issues should be solved by replacing the part or fixture with a new one.
Trusting thumb rules; do you? Time to eliminate the thumb rule. Mass Customization is the Winning Strategy for Retail Furniture Manufacturers – DriveWorks: CAD Design Automation & Customization. “Experiences say that the design cycles can be reduced by 45% of the original time with software solutions for design automation.”
With expanding retail stores and markets, the furniture design needs also have increased. It is an easy task only until the entire store’s furniture is designed from scratch. Series of challenges are encountered when only a single part of the furniture is left to be designed. Let’s say that the entire retail fashion store is ready and furnished with shelving, racks, and drawers, and just the fitting room furniture is pending. Furniture Design Challenges New designs of the fitting room should complement the existing furniture.
CAD Functionalities;Maximum Utility for Product Designing. “You convert drafts and drawings into CAD models, you develop detailed fabrication drawings, you validate the design concepts, but how differently do you do them every time?
Do you ever realize that Autodesk and Dassault Systemes roll out new functionalities with new versions of AutoCAD or SolidWorks, and you get acquainted with all without even realizing it?” Upon retrospection, we, design engineers belonging to any industry,would realize that 3D printing has revamped our approach of product designing than it used to be a few years ago. Today, more generative shapes and complex designs are acceptable, and the updates have come so subtly;that we probably don’t even realize the change. CAD Essentials for Fabrication at the Tipping Point of Industry 4.0. Why CAD Models Need Standard Visibility for Precision Part Manufacturing - Digital Engineering. Precision part manufacturers face challenges that are related to the shop floor as well as the designs.
The majority of these challenges are because smaller parts or units are both bespoke and have precise geometry. To be able to design and develop bespoke and precise manufacturing information, engineers need a CAD system that is democratized. In other words, everyone from the design engineer to the foremen on the shop floor, and everyone in between, should be able to view the CAD model. Design automation; quite a salesman of building products fabrication drawings - The Engineering Exchange. How Engineering Design & Drafting Company helps Product Manufacturers?
Increasing number of product manufacturers tried designing and developing products in-house, in the bid to save costs and reduce the time to market.
But most of them failed miserably.
Design Automation: Why Furniture Manufacturers should adopt it? Sheet metal furniture is currently the most profitable business; but with some of the biggest challenges in the industry.
What usually happens with a furniture manufacture is that by the time a 3D CAD model design is released for the product to be manufactured, and it penetrates the markets, the designs tend to get redundant. Even if a furniture manufacturer creates custom-made products, by the time it is ready, customers would’ve lost interest. We ourselves have experienced this so many times that we ordered a certain product, be it a reclining chair, with some particular specifications but when it was actually made, it wasn’t exactly like the one we imagined.
2D Drawing or 3D Model: A choice to make for avoiding catastrophe. CAD Engineering Posted by Usha B.
Trivedi on November 7th, 2017 “You adopt a better alternative when one arrives or is discovered; until then you continue using the one that has established the legacy.” Kiosk Manufacturers Join Hands with CAD Design Support Partner for Profitable Growth. CAD Models vs. CAD Drafts: How should fabricators decide which one to adopt? Convergence of data and engineering expertise for profitability aspirants in manufacturing. If you are connecting your factory machines through sensors and analyzing that data for quality manufacturing, then you are only leveraging data science solutions for only a part of your systems.
Manufacturing industry is at the tipping point with the concept of ‘Industry 4.0’ being widely prevalent. With every stage of a product development being connected through digitized data and sensors, right from research data to newly approved designs, from drawings to production, from supply chain management to logistics and from processes to actions, there is a lot of data available. Particularly for manufacturing industry, because of the legalization and other factors, factory owners have all the data available. Wisdom guide for fabricators to adopt the right CAD tool. Transform Concept into Tangible Product by Leveraging CAD.
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Customize size. An efficient trajectory for taking drawings to fabrication. Data Analytics - Educating Future Engineers. The world that we live in today, has dramatically evolved and become technology-driven.
From simplest task of finding the best restaurant to searching for the best neuro surgeon in the country, Google has answers to all your queries including address, visiting hours, menu, fees and everything. But the thing that is missing big time is that friendly voice that guides you at every turn on your way to the restaurant or the clinic. But all this did not happen overnight; instead it’s been more than two decades that we have been witnessing this steady progression of technology across all fronts.
Same is the case with engineering as well. Don’t drive away AR, it’s an acquaintance to CAD driven fabricators - Design Solutions. Apart from people within the fabrication industry, the non-experts outside know and have an idea that augmented reality may strike any time in near future. Fabricators need to buck up and be ready with designs that complement the technology when the time comes, regardless of its current share in entire fabrication process. Half the entire CAD driven fabricators have come to realize the importance of augmented reality in their business, but then there is the other half that still needs to be made aware.
Driving away these new upcoming technologies shall prove to be costly, keeping in mind what wonders they create even today, in spite of being adopted only by half the entire fraternity. Driving away AR isn’t an option for CAD driven fabricators Fabricators have seen, though on a small scale, the ability that augmented reality has for experiencing possible scenarios prior to manufacturing. Are kiosks ready for today's exciting digital technologies? Aug. 2, 2017 By Sandip Shah For brands, kiosks are more than just another source of marketing. The ability to integrate digital technologies with self-service machines is enabling brands to provide consumers with the right kind of experience. Kiosks are, in fact, the fastest and the most cost effective way to connect with customers and meet their needs. As kiosks continue to expand, kiosk manufacturers must assess how digital technologies will impact their operations.
From quick service restaurants and mobile integration to making use of near field communication, beacons and artificial intelligence, kiosks are poised for a widespread acceptance in the future. Additive Manufacturing Ready CAD Designs: Staying Profitable During Transition. Posted by Jaydeep Chauhan on June 14th, 2017 Today, additive manufacturing is showing tremendous opportunities and ease in manufacturing complex parts. It has made possible for fabricators and CAD product design engineers to make 5 units of a particular design at one place and 100 at other.
In a nutshell, additive manufacturing has removed the cap of parts produced to a considerable extent, and also paced up engineering time for fabrication. But even for a CAD driven fabricator, the rapidly increasing momentum of additive manufacturing is actually a concern. It is so, because fabrication drawings are in fact way too detailed and made for subtractive manufacturing. Managing Process Equipment Designs and Market Trends with CAD. By Usha B. Trivedi, a Technical Writer at TrueCADD - Gujarat, India Heat exchangers find the largest application in various verticals of process industry, be it food processing, chemical processing, pulp and paper, HVACR, power generation or any other. Heat exchangers are probably one of those equipments that have undergone constant fundamental changes in designs and forms since the evolution. Due to changes in this one component, the entire market of processing industry is experiencing transition. Multiple Ideates for Shelter Structure is a Bane with Product Configurator.
Posted by Jaydeep Chauhan on July 19th, 2017 Last month, when Elon Musk’s Tesla announced about the launching of cheap solar roofs, it must have sent a jitter down the spines to fabricators of shelter structures and metal canopies. These sheet metal fabricators see solar roofs attacking their business, no matter how versatile their own products are. Like Tesla, there are numerous entrants with some new features every now and then. Design Automation: An interesting variant for repetitive furniture manufacturing.
The new old secret of bringing life back to aging industrial pumps. Most processing pumps installed in plants are aging, and the arithmetic gets this age to be somewhere between 35 and 50 years. Top 5 SolidWorks Partner Products to Leverage Your Design Capabilities. SolidWorks is a popular CAD tool utilized by more than 3 Million users across the globe. Its powerful 3D modeling and design documentation capabilities, along with the focus on ease-of-use is what makes this tool the first choice of every design engineer. To further augment the capabilities of this tool, there are partner products that offer a range of tools and applications that help manufacturers and engineers to bring innovative, quality products to market more efficiently and cost-effectively.
Role of CAD as materials handling equipment evolves from fixed to modular - Material Handling & Logistics. Usha B. Trivedi, a qualified mechanical engineer and a technical writer at Hi-Tech Engineering Services, explains how crucial is CAD in the evolution of material handling equipment. Unlike most equipment, design for fabrication of material handling equipment such as trolleys and pallet forklifts includes generous consideration of ergonomics alongside design detailing precision, cost factor and operation conditions. Ergonomics acquire a prominent position because efficiency of supply chain and accuracy in material transit are directly impacted by it.
With ergonomics taking centre stage for efficient designs, part fabrication and assembly preparation, it becomes essential that fabricators and fitters on the shop floor interpret the information from shop floor drawings correctly. Importance of PMI Annotated 3D CAD Models to Reduce Fabrication Costs. Fabrication companies for automotive products like jigs and fixtures are well aware of the challenges of documenting all the technical papers required for fabricating the smallest fixture; in the era when CAD software like SolidWorks or Autodesk’s AutoCAD did not prevail.
These documents may varyingly range from owner’s manual to installation drawings, including 2D part drawings, part lists, wired diagrams, marketing content, bill of materials, and everything else pertaining to the component that is to be fabricated. The real pain of producing and storing these documents is the cost incurred which is not easily affordable for any fabrication unit. 5 Cool Augmented Reality Applications in the Manufacturing Sector. Augmented Reality (AR) is no longer a science-fiction today. It is real, and manufacturers are betting big on this technology to unlock better productivity at the factory floor. 5 Areas that Show CAD Generated P&Ids are Data Rich. Posted by Jaydeep Chauhan on June 7th, 2017 Technically, before a processing plant is operative, a large sum of money is invested in installation and procurement of necessary machinery and equipment to setup across the facility. 3D Furniture Design and Rendering: Effective Advertising Solution for Manufacturers.
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