Enhancing productivity and product quality with 3DFaster cycle times made possible by Solid Edge, Femap and Teamcenter Express improve customer responsiveness

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Business initiatives

New product development

Business challenges

Customers’ demands forfast delivery

Enhance efficiency

Decrease the numberof defects

Keys to success

Automated design processbased on Velocity Series™(Solid Edge®, Femap® andTeamcenter® Express software)

Re-use of legacy 2D data

Automatic BOM generation

Use of 3D data formarketing images

Results

Design time reduction of15 percent for first prototype

30 to 50 percent decrease intime needed for designchanges and production model

Fewer defects; higher quality;customer satisfaction

100 percent consistencybetween BOMs and drawings

One person now does thework of several

Simplified data management

Emerging leader inconstruction machineryEverdigm produces a widerange of constructionmachinery as well as equipmentfor fighting fires and respondingto other natural disasters. Thecompany began in 1994 tradingsecond-hand constructionmachinery. Through constantR&D into the production ofattachments, concrete pumptrucks and tower trucks,Everdigm made the leap intoproducing its own machinery.Today Everdigm sells itsproducts locally as well asoutside South Korea. Itsequipment is exported tomore than 60 countries around the world including the Americas and Europe.

As Everdigm’s business areas were expanding and product variety increasing, managementrealized the limitations of the company’s 2D design software. It was difficult to create complexshapes with the 2D program, and difficult to reduce defects caused by design errors. In addition,it was getting harder to meet customers’ demands for quicker delivery with the 2D approach.As a result, the company decided to implement a 3D design system.

Wide range of functionalityIn choosing the new system, Everdigm was hoping to reduce design time, automate repetitiveprocesses and maintain high-level security of design data. After thorough benchmarking ofvarious 3D CAD systems, Everdigm chose the Solid Edge solution from Siemens PLM Software.Other factors in Solid Edge’s favor were the ease of maintenance, good support, the software’sability to handle large assemblies and its short learning curve.

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Solid Edge provides Everdigm with a robust drafting tool and supports the use of existing 2Ddata. Solid Edge facilitates the generation of bills of material, exploded views and animations. Italso includes a simple macro function for increasing efficiency. Furthermore, Solid Edge will allowthe company to expand in the future to product lifecycle management (PLM), another majorreason behind Everdigm’s choice.

Along with its deployment of Solid Edge, Everdigm also implemented the Femap finite elementanalysis pre and postprocessor from Siemens. Everdigm tested the two programs at its ATT R&Dcenter, and then rolled them out to the product development team of each department. Thecompany also provided internal and external training according to the needs of each businessarea, covering areas such as the use of existing 2D drawings, and 3D modeling and assemblyprocesses. The upgrade to 3D took six months.

Reaping the benefitsUsing Solid Edge, Everdigm has increased efficiency by automating repetitive design tasks. Forexample, Solid Edge permits sequences of material numbers to be transmitted to the ERPsystem. It allows drawings to become templates, standardizes file properties and user-entereddata, automatically creates the BOM, and permits fast searches of product and BOM data.

With 3D design, Everdigm has been able to decrease the number of defects. The company hasalso been able to manage product-related data (including design, manufacturing, sales andmarketing information) using an integrated database to achieve its main business challenge ofworking more efficiently.

Since deploying Solid Edge and Femap to create a highly automated 3D design process, Everdigmhas achieved outstanding benefits. These include a greater than 15 percent reduction in designtime for a first prototype and a 30 to 50 percent reduction for design changes and for theproduction of a model for mass production. In addition, Solid Edge has helped the companydetermine areas that will be difficult for manufacturing. Having a 3D model and design databaseconnection, the company has achieved 100 percent data consistency between BOM data anddrawings, enhancing product and inventory management.

In addition to shrinking the designcycle, Everdigm has been able toenhance design quality and preventdowntime. Solid Edge 3D data isused to create images for use inexternal marketing, achieving theeffect of “killing two birds with onestone.” In the future, Everdigm plansto systemize its overall processesand implement PLM to furtherincrease its efficiency and

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productivity and significantly reduce time tomarket for its products.

As the level of product complexity increasedthe amount of CAD data being produced,Everdigm realized that it also needed a moreeffective data management system. For thisthe company started using the TeamcenterExpress solution, also from Siemens.Teamcenter Express allows Everdigm tointegrate and manage all of the data createdacross its product lifecycle. It also enables moreeffective collaboration further reducing designtimes. Everdigm expects Teamcenter Expressto increase work efficiency by 15 percent.

For more information, contact your local Velocity representative:

Solutions/Services

Solid Edgewww.siemens.com/solidedge

Femapwww.siemens.com/plm/femap

Teamcenter Expresswww.siemens.com/plm/teamcenterexpress

Client’s primary business

Everdigm produces constructionmachinery as well as equipmentused in fighting fires and other

natural disasters.www.everdigm.com

Client location

Chungcheongbuk-do,Jincheon-gun, Jincheon-eub

South Korea

“Using Solid Edge, we achievethe effect of having oneemployee do the work ofseveral people.”

Hwang Un KyooDesign Engineer, Attachment R&DConstruction Machinery BusinessEverdigm

ContactSiemens PLM SoftwareAmericas 800 807 2200Europe 44 (0) 1202 243455Asia-Pacific 852 2230 3308www.siemens.com/plm

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