POLYRACK TECH-GROUP: Speeding Time-to-Market for Electronics Packaging Systems with SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Design
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- Europe
Country
- Germany
Product
- SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Design
- 3DEXPERIENCE platform
- SOLIDWORKS design and electronics cooling simulation tools
Tech Stack
- SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Design
- 3DEXPERIENCE platform
- Direct Editing capabilities
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
- Customer Satisfaction
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
- Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization
Applicable Industries
- Electronics
- Healthcare & Hospitals
- Telecommunications
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Quality Assurance
- Sales & Marketing
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Remote Collaboration
Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
- System Integration
- Training
About The Customer
POLYRACK TECH-GROUP is a leading German manufacturer of packaging solutions for electronic equipment. The company produces both standard and customized electronic packaging systems, including subracks, cases, industrial PC applications, and plug-in-modules. POLYRACK's products are used in various industries such as communications, broadcast, security, defense, transportation, utilities, and medical sectors, as well as in test and measurement environments. The company has been utilizing SOLIDWORKS design and electronics cooling simulation tools for several years to enhance its development processes. Recently, POLYRACK sought a new design solution to quickly model design concepts, support faster proposal development, and improve collaboration with global customers.
The Challenge
POLYRACK TECH-GROUP needed to streamline the development of initial concept designs to shorten the sales cycle, compress development time, and accelerate time-to-market. The company identified the need for a new design solution for quickly modeling design concepts to support faster proposal development and improve collaboration with global customers. Traditional CAD methods were time-consuming, taking a couple of weeks to create early 3D concepts that required some early validation of motion and stresses. This inefficiency was a bottleneck in their development process, leading to delays in securing customer approvals and decisions on prototypes.
The Solution
POLYRACK implemented SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Design software to address its challenges. The company participated in the SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Design Lighthouse Program, which allowed them to use the software in production as part of prerelease testing. This early usage confirmed that the software would help streamline the development of early design concepts, shorten the sales cycle, compress development time, and accelerate time-to-market. SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Design enabled POLYRACK to create early 3D concepts more efficiently, simulate movements and relationships of parts, and validate structural performance. The software's Direct Editing capabilities facilitated faster and easier design changes, even for customer models received as STEP files. Additionally, the social collaboration features of SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Design improved and accelerated collaboration with international customers by providing a running, blog-like tally of a design concept's progression within a specific online community.
Operational Impact
Quantitative Benefit
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