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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 !
