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Industry

Industrial machinery

Business challenges

Increase protability

Reduce errors found on

shop oor

Respond faster to requests

for quotes

Speed time-to-market

Keys to success

Seamless integration between

CAD and CAM

Synchronous technology for

fast design changes

CAM functionality that

supports advanced manufac-

turing processes

Accurate postprocessor and

Siemens controller

Results

More accurate designs

Design cycle reduced by 30

percent

Reduced shop oor rejection

rate; less scrap and rework

Faster cost estimates

Better ability to meet

customers needs

Seamless CAD/CAM integration

of Solid Edge and CAM Expressallows manufacturer to keeppace with the fast-growingdemand for its products;company reduces design cycletime by 30 percent

Serving industry across India

Shivam Industries (Shivam), an ISO

9001:2000-certied company, was

established in 1994. From its beginning

as a machine shop, the company later

diversied into the production of alumi-num pressure die-castings. Its castings

are used in automobiles and consumer

products, instrumentation, and electrical

and pneumatic tools. The company also

has a rubber molding division. Shivam

products include bellows, gaskets,

oil seals and anti-vibration pads, to

name a few.

With a high volume of tools being devel-

oped each year, Shivam originally out-

sourced its design work. There were a

number of drawbacks to this, including a

lack of data security (caused by sharingproprietary information with third parties),

the inability to design a part and tooling

concurrently and design errors that

disrupted the manufacturing process.

In addition, the company had no way to

simulate manufacturing operations.

Mistakes were discovered on the shop

oor, resulting in scrap and rework.

Solid Edge CAM Express

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Shivam Industries

Improving design accuracy to boost productivity and profits

Seamlessly integrated CAD and CAMWith the goal of bringing design work back

in house, and ultimately improving design

accuracy and productivity, Shivam began

its evaluation of computer-aided design/

computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM)

solutions, honing its nal assessment to a

combination of 1) AutoCAD software and

Delcam software or 2) Solid Edge

software and CAM Express software

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(from Siemens PLM Softwares Velocity

Series portfolio).

The evaluation team found the functional-

ity of Solid Edge with CAM Express to be

superior in a number of ways. Only Solid

Edge has synchronous technology, which

allows designers to quickly edit existinggeometry, for faster design changes, says

K. D. Shardul, CEO at Shivam Industries.

In terms of CAM, the Siemens solution

supports advanced processes such as core

cavity extraction. In addition, Solid Edge

offers outstanding drafting capabilities, as

well as seamless interoperability between

CAD and CAM. With those advantages,

along with the availability of training and

ongoing technical support from Expert3D

Solutions Private Limited, Shivam was

condent in its choice of Solid Edge.

An additional factor in favor of the

Siemens solution was the availability of

a postprocessor for the companys TAL

vertical machining center, which uses a

Siemens SINUMERIK 802D sl controller.

The postprocessor performed perfectly

the rst time, says Shardul. That postpro-

cessor was not available from Delcam.

Faster designs with fewer errors

Since implementing Solid Edge, 3D design

is now the norm at Shivam Industries.

The ability to visualize our designs has

improved greatly, says Shardul. Product

drawings received from customers are

converted into 3D geometry in Solid Edge.

The Solid Edge models are used for pro-cess planning and cost estimation. In addi-

tion, Solid Edge component geometry is

used for tool design in CAM Express, thus

completing the design-to-manufacturing

cycle seamlessly, Shardul adds. This has

reduced tool manufacturing errors.

Product development turnaround has sig-

nicantly improved as well. Using Solid

Edge and CAM Express, we have reduced

our design cycle by 30 percent, notes

Shardul. With the greater accuracy pro-

vided by modeling in 3D, as well as thedirect use of the CAD geometry in the

CAM program, fewer errors are found on

the shop oor. Specically, due to the

accuracy of Solid Edge drawings, weve

reduced scrap and rework by 10 percent.

Overall, the Siemens solution has given

Shivam Industries the ability to respond

more quickly to its customers (with faster

estimates, for example) and a faster time-

to-market. According to Shardul, Solid

Edge is allowing us to readily meet rapidly

growing market demands.

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Solutions/Services

Solid Edge

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CAM Express

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camexpress

SINUMERIK 802D sl Controller

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Customers primary business

Shivam Industries designs

and manufactures aluminum

pressure die castings andmolded rubber products.

www.shivamindustries.com

Customer location

Aurangabad, Maharashtra

India

Partner

Expert3D Solutions

Pvt. Ltd.

www.expert3ds.com

Solid Edge is allowing

us to readily meet rapidly

growing market demands.

K. D. Shardul

CEO

Shivam Industries

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