Industrial Equipment Solutions
Innovate with design tools and additive manufacturing
Technology & Process Solutions
SOLIDWORKS product development solutions can help you design complex machinery fast and verify strength, durability, and performance to outpace competitors by creating better products at lower cost.
Our solutions allow Commercial Product designers to:
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Go from Concept Design to Finshed Product
Integrated SOLIDWORKS mechanical design, electronic design, electrical schematics, simulation, product data management, Model-Based Design (MBD), inspection, communication, documentation, and visualization output can be used directly for manufacturing.
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Concurrent Design
The traditional, step-by-step, non-integrated approach to developing products carries too many limitations that diminish competitiveness. Moving to an iterative approach means you can start manufacturing tasks during the design phase.
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Integrated Development
With integrated 3D design, you can use data management to update and reuse existing designs, simulation for risk assessment, and costing for estimations that complement quality improvement efforts.
Additive Manufacturing Solutions
3D printing provides manufacturers with prototyping, advanced tooling and production applications. 3D printing solutions are often the difference between turning down potential business and cost-effectively delivering and serving a niche need.
Our additive solutions help Commercial Product designers to:
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Get to market faster
Get to market faster than the competition with speedier design cycles. Go from design to prototyping in hours, not days. Blaze through product improvement with rapid prototype revisions
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Innovate
Allows commercial product designers to produce any form they can imagine, in real space and time. Then test and revise at will.
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Simplify Workflow
Get better results by removing steps and complexity from your workflow. By producing full-scale prototypes straight from CAD design, your design reviews go smoother with hands-on consumer insight that is more informed.
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3D Print Jigs and Fixtures
With 3D printed tooling you can avoid high machining costs for custom tools or parts needed for individual repairs and restorations.
Technology for Industrial Equipment Design
Drive innovation and speed design with SOLIDWORKS software
Today’s challenging commercial product design environment requires manufacturers to automate processes. Upgrading from methods that rely on non-integrated, point solutions in favor of concurrent, fully-integrated 3D design and manufacturing increases quality and adds to your bottom line.
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Software
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software delivers powerful design functionality with an intuitive user interface to speed your design process and instantly productive.
SOLIDWORKS Simulation
With SOLIDWORKS Simulation solutions, product engineers can virtually test new ideas, quickly and efficiently evaluate performance, and improve quality
Customer Example
Improving material handling equipment development with SOLIDWORKS
The company chose SOLIDWORKS software because of its ease of use, sheet-metal design features, and large assembly capabilities
Mitchell Mill Systems Canada Ltd. designs and manufactures material handling equipment used in grain, livestock feed, pet food, fish food, fertilizer, seed cleaning, and other industrial processes.
Industrial Equipment Process Management
Communicate and collaborate with your team and suppliers
Reduce the time and expense required to manage, archive, and track design documentation and cost-effectively automate documentation to securely archive and organize multiple versions of projects.
SOLIDWORKS PDM
SOLIDWORKS Product Data Management (PDM) products manage and synchronize your design data across your entire enterprise with a single solution
SOLIDWORKS MBD
SOLIDWORKS MBD (Model Based Definition) software is a drawingless manufacturing solution for communicating product and manufacturing information (PMI)
SOLIDWORKS Inspection
SOLIDWORKS Inspection software simplifies drawing and report document creation to help your business streamline part inspection and improve quality
Additive Manufacturing Industrial Equipment Solutions
Advanced materials and techniques for prototyping
Overview
Designers and engineers can skip expensive, time-intensive machining and gain the agility to make changes any time. 3D Printers let you produce concept models, prototypes, tooling and end-use parts directly from CAD data.
Because prototyping needs change as a products design develops from the concept phase to functional testing, many organizations deploy more than one technology by Stratasys. Commercial products manufacturers need the flexibility to make great products in small, medium or large volumes.
3D Printing Technologies
Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) and Polyjet are two distinct additive manufacturing methods.
FDM technology is a great solution for low-volume tooling and durable end-use parts. FDM Technology works with production-grade high performance thermoplastics such as Nylon 12, Polycarbonate and Ultem 9085.
PolyJet Technology produces ultra-detailed prototypes, molds and even production parts incorporating smooth rigid, transparent and flexible materials. Multi-material 3D printers produce life like models with a variety of material properties on a single build tray.
Additive Manufacturing Machines & Materials
Stratasys 3D Printing gets industrial equipment created faster
Create large or small production tools and full-scale prototypes with Stratasys 3D Printers. Industrial equipment designers can maximize productivity and quickly achieve ROI.
With the Objet1000 Plus, designers and engineers can quickly prototype large 3D CAD designs, no matter how complex. There’s no need to scale the model down, prepare and assemble jigsaw-puzzle pieces, or outsource to an assortment of different machines and technologies.
ST-130 Sacrificial Tooling
ST-130 Sacrificial Tooling material simplifies the production of hollow composite parts. Complex tools can be 3D printed and easily dissolved after curing.
ULTEM 9085
ULTEM 9085 resin material lets manufacturers create functional prototypes and production parts for high-strength, FST-rated and certified applications.
PPSF / PPSU
PPSF / PPSU (polyphenylsulfone) Stratasys 3D printing material has the greatest heat and chemical resistance of all FDM materials
High Temperature (RGD525)
Stratasys High Temperature PolyJet 3D printing material is ideal for thermal testing prototypes that require hot-air or hot-water flow.
Digital ABS Plus
Digital ABS Plus™ is designed to simulate standard ABS plastics for better impact strength with high-temperature resistance, toughness and superior finish.
ABS-M30
ABS-M30 is ideal for conceptual modeling, functional prototyping, manufacturing tools and production parts. ABS-M30 has greater strength than standard ABS.
ABS-ESD7
ABS-ESD7 thermoplastic Stratasys 3D printing material has static dissipative properties for applications where a static charge can damage products, impair their performance or cause an explosion.
Objet1000 Plus
Create large or small production tools and full-scale prototypes with the Objet1000 Plus 3D Printer. Maximize your productivity and quickly achieve ROI.
Objet350/500 Connex3
The Objet350/500 Connex3 are able to combine vivid colour and multiple materials, to simulate the precise look, feel and function of finished products.
Additive Manufacturing Applications
How do Industrial Equipment engineers use 3D printers?
Production End-use Parts
Stratasys 3D Printers are ideal for low production runs as they build the most durable, stable, repeatable on-demand end-use parts in the industry
Why Stratasys 3D Printing for Industrial Equipment?
Recommended Industrial Equipment Machine
Objet1000 Plus
Large Scale Multi-Material 3D Printer
The Objet1000 Plus is an easy to operate, wide format 3D printer for rapidly creating industrial size models and 1:1 scale prototypes.
Offset Expensive CNC Production
For low-volume tooling and durable end-use parts, Stratasys patented Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) Technology works with production-grade materials, including high-performance thermoplastics like PC and ULTEM 9085.
Reduce Costs – Print In-house
Outsourcing your prototypes can take days and cost hundreds of dollars. With a Stratasys 3D Printer you can create the same prototype in just hours – for a fraction of the cost.
Test and Identify Design Problems
In some cases using CAD models alone is not as effective at finding design problems as a 3D printed physical part – you can easily identify a component issue that may have been missed in the initial design stage.
Featured Case Study
Christie Digital mixes 3D printing technologies to optimize products
Because prototyping needs change as a product’s design matures from concept through functional testing, Christie deploys two distinct additive manufacturing methods from Stratasys.
The company serves demanding clients in cinema, large audience environments, 3D and virtual reality, simulation, education, media and government.
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