SolidWorks
for Power and Process Systems Designers
SolidWorks®
provides the solution to create better power and process designs, shorten
lead time, and reduce costly mistakes throughout your design process.
Customer
expectations grow increasingly demanding. The expected time to react and
respond continues to shrink. At each phase of your design cycle your challenges
and deliverables are different. You need to do more than ever in less
time and SolidWorks® Office Premium can help you get there.
Request
for Proposal
Companies can no longer
afford to take weeks to deliver a proposal for a job to their client.
SolidWorks 3D CAD software helps leverage previous projects for
a proposal by providing the capability to quickly search both previous
2D and 3D designs to find a relative baseline. Easily finding a
similar job from the past allows for design teams to quickly generate
proposal drawings and to more efficiently estimate job costs to
maintain profitability. SolidWorks gives the manufacturer the ability
to provide a more accurate proposal faster than their competition.
With eDrawings®, proposals can include a digital version to
make the end customer feel more a part of the process. Faster responses
and better customer interaction will help differentiate businesses.
Power and Process equipment
and system designs often start with planning the overall system
needed to meet the requirements outlined in the RFP. Using
standard Microsoft Office® tools to analyze input and output
needs is common practice. SolidWorks allows users to use blocks
to create layouts so the entire product can start to take shape
in 2D before committing to 3D. These can later be transformed
into parts and assemblies. SWIFT™ helps both designers who
are new to 3D and 3D veterans to build part models faster than ever.
These Microsoft Office calculations and SolidWorks sketches can
easily be tracked and managed on a project basis using PDMWorks®.
Planning major components, major systems, and necessary interconnections
using SolidWorks helps to establish the initial design and prepare
initial project quotations.
Many of the components in
machines are purchased from suppliers. The time spent searching
through outdated paper catalogs and then contacting a vendor for
the latest version is wasted when you consider that the designer
still has to design the purchased part to fit in the model. SolidWorks
provides 3D ContentCentral ® , an online catalog, to let you
find vendors, configure components, and download a 3D models right
into your design. With these capabilities, designers can focus on
your overall design, not on the vendor's parts. SolidWorks 2007
includes powerful new search functions to help find components quickly
on 3D ContentCentral as well as on your network or in PDMWorks.
When designing in 2D,
a designer is unable to determine if the parts fit together until
final assembly. SolidWorks lets users build in design intent, making
sure parts fit right the first time and allowing users to visualize
the entire design in 3D. The better a company can visualize and
refine their design prior to the bid process, the more competitive
their bid is likely to be. SolidWorks also enables the designer
to enhance their proposal package by offering such innovative tools
as eDrawings, fly-through animations, fully-rendered images of the
product, a rapid-prototype tool that can show a full or scale model
of the proposed design.
After winning the bid, detail
design typically takes place to complete the design and enable it
to be manufactured or built. The more complete the design,
the better cost can be controlled. The initial design can now
be refined by adding routed systems and alternate components can
easily be tested to assess fit. SolidWorks enables 3D parts
to easily be replaced with alternate choices before steel is cut
or parts are machined. Powerful weldment functionality enables
structures to be quickly designed and then analyzed using the new
COSMOSWorks® Designer weldment analysis tool. COSMOSFloWorks™
enables efficient flow and thermal analysis of heat transfer equipment.
Any design revisions are
easily tracked by PDMWorks, and bills of material are automatically
updated as parts are changed. Detailed drawings are very quickly
created to document the design to guide manufacturing. SolidWorks
Design Checker provides automated checking of key drawing aspects
to help ensure completeness and adherence to company standards. Final
design reviews can be done using powerful eDrawings to communicate
with the component manufacturers and contractors.
Even though the project may
be headed for manufacturing or construction, there is one more part
to customer deliverables: operating manuals and maintenance
documents.
SolidWorks helps users to
leverage their 3D assembly to quickly create detailed exploded diagrams,
completing the project and guaranteeing that documentation will
always be on the same version as the product the customer receives. Other
advanced techniques include fly-through and other animations that
can be created from inside SolidWorks to documentation operation
and maintenance procedures.
A parts list must go to
purchasing and drawings to manufacturing before assembly, construction,
and testing begins. In 2D, there is no guarantee that the design
is correct or the parts list is complete. SolidWorks provides accurate
2D or 3D data for machining and an up-to-date parts list for purchasing.
SolidWorks can improve the
design process at every corner, making you more profitable and competitive.
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