PLMagazine 2012 eng

1 – PLMagazine 1/2012

PAGE 14-15

PLM Group Cool Design Contest 2012 Danes are heading for outer space with assistance from SolidWorks

PAGE 4 PAGE 24PAGE 20

Alarm wrist watch for elderly wins prestigious red dot design award

News!SolidWorks Plastics SolidWorks Electrical

#01 2012

Welcome to the SolidWorks 2013 Launch Event!

I

Phot

o: T

hom

as P

eder

sen

PLMagazine 1/2012 – 2

Publisher: PLM Group www.plmgroup.eu | Editor-in-chief: Silva Lill, PLM Group | Journalists: Klavs Andersen and Kenneth Brinkeby | Design: Newton Marketing, Estonia | Print: Grafisk Forum, Denmark

PLM Group company merge completed Dear reader,

From now and in the future our name is PLM Group. Since the merger in december 2009 of the largest SolidWorks resellers in the Nordic and Baltic countries - Solid Design House, MP Engineering and CadON - we have been working on creating a

single unified organization. This work is now completed and our common internal systems and processes are in place. That makes it a natural step for us to also share one common name in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Latvia.

PLM Group is by far the largest player in all the markets we operate in and we are a healthy and profitable business that our customers can safely choose to partner with. None of the other players in the marketplace come close to matching our skills and resources. We have the best support and service with the best response times and a comprehensive internal network of resources our clients can rely on. This makes us by far the most flexible partner in the PLM market.

For the second year in a row, PLM Group has been organizing the summer competition “Cool Design Contest”. The competition rewards some of the year’s most interesting design solutions crafted with SolidWorks. This year’s winner is the exciting Danish space project Copenhagen Suborbitals. The goal of the non-profit project is to launch a manned Danish spaceflight in a few years. SolidWorks and SolidWorks Simulation is used intensively in the development of both the rocket and the space shuttle.

The project is already well under way and demonstrates both unconventional and innovative ways to use our products and solutions. Congratulations to Copenhagen Suborbitals!

You can learn much more about their project inside this edition of PLMagazine.

We will soon launch this year’s most important networking arrangement for Nordic SolidWorks users, the SolidWorks 2013 News Seminar. As in previous years, we look forward to welcoming more than 1,000 customers at the event that will take place during October.

Besides demonstrating all the many exciting innovations of SolidWorks 2013, this year’s News Seminars offers the participants a chance to get acquainted with several new exciting products and solutions from PLM Group. You can register for the event by our website www.plmgroup.eu/sw2013

Last but not least: PLM Group will soon be launching a brand new PLM concept. For a very low monthly cost, PLM users can get access to an IT infrastructure that is comparable to the IT infrastructure found in the largest international companies.

It is HostPLM™ product that ties together all PLM Group’s SolidWorks solutions and is integrated with the solutions used by other PLM users in the enterprise. Learn more about the groundbreaking solution inside the magazine.

Enjoy reading!

Jess G. Frandsen, CEO, PLM Group.

CASE: Vivago Oy - Alarm wrist watch for elderly wins prestigious reddot design award

CASE: Mencke & Vagnby – Designer team takes SolidWorks around the globe

Product News: SolidWorks Electrical 3D and SolidWorks Plastics 2012

HostPLM™ Solution from PLM Group

Copenhagen Suborbitals – manned capsule into orbit around Earth

ES Equipment – Swedish rescue knife cuts clothes in emergency situations

Motoplast – rotational molding specialist moved closer to customer

Sting AB – bicycle and pedestrian bridge over a Swedish river

SolidWorks 2013 Launch Event

FINALISTS:

Pemamek Oy Ltd has created new opportunities with 3D technical documentation

CH DesKon designed a giant hinged dam gate like a complex puzzle

RUNI A/S has cut one-third of the development time for its waste compactors

Wihuri Oy Technical Trade developed an ergonomic workbench for maintainance of huge work vehicles

4

6

8

10

12

14-18

Publisher: PLM Group www.plmgroup.eu | Editor-in-chief: Silva Lill, PLM Group | Journalists: Klavs Andersen and Kenneth Brinkeby | Design: Newton Marketing, Estonia | Print: Grafisk Forum, Denmark

18.10 Lahti, Finland 22.10 Malmö, Sweden 23.10 Gothenburg, Sweden23.10 Turku, Finland 24.10 Jönköping, Sweden 24.10 Tampere, Finland24.10 Roskilde, Denmark 25.10 Horsens, Denmark

25.10 Västerås, Sweden26.10 Tallinn, Estonia30.10 Kokkola, Finland (in swedish) 30.10 Riga, Latvia (in russian)

We are looking forward to welcome you on SolidWorks 2013 Launch Event!

Reserve Your seat today www.plmgroup.eu/sw2013

PLM GROUP COOL DESIGN CONTEST

PLM Group company merge completed

Welcome to the SolidWorks 201 3 Launch Event!

I

II

III

20

22

24

27


Copenhagen Subor-bitals is a suborbital space endeavor, based

entirely on private donators, sponsors and part time specialists. Their mission is to launch human

beings into space on privately build rockets and spacecrafts. The project is both open source and non-profit in order to inspire as many people as possible, and to envolve relevant partners and their expertise.

Four years ago after a brief telephone conversation, the two Danes Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen met each other for the first time. During the meeting

they decided to realize a common audacious dream: to build a rocket and a space capsule that will travel into outer space. The two also share another common characteristic: They are only truly satisfied when they deal with challenges, which border on the impossible.

Peter Madsen is an inventor, artist and entrepreneur, who has primarily worked with technological development work.

Before forming Copenhagen Suborbitals, he has built three submarines: Freya (2002), Kraka (2005) and UC3 Nautilus (2008). Aside from this, he has for many years been developing rocket engines.

Kristian von Bengtson is a trained architect and since 2005 he has been working with the organization Space Architecture Technical Committee (SATC) under the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). From 2006 to 2008 he also worked for the U.S. national space agency NASA, developing moon landing modules under the Constellation program for manned spaceflight.

“We had both reached a point in our lives where something entirely new should happen. For us this project is not so much about the journey into space as if to find out how we solve a number of extreme technical challenges,” says Kristian von Bengtson adding: “This is not a business, nor is it an attempt to race against being the first doing private space travel in Europe. It is truly a project pushing the limits of a small group of individuals.”

Sponsors and private contributions fund the project. It is the largest non-profit attempt ever to do a manned space flight mission. One of the sponsors is the Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks, who contributed with a license in the most advanced version of the 3D CAD system, SolidWorks Premium plus support from PLM Group. The CAD system is used for design and simulation of production-ready 3D models for both rocket and capsule.

Close to the city centre of Copenhagen in a 300 square meter building at Refshaleøen that earlier was home of the Burmeister & Wain shipyard, the two founders of the project work in close cooperation with a crowd of about 30 volunteers. The volunteers are experts who are working either part time or full time on the project team to develop and build the rocket and capsule.After initial experiments with different types of rockets, a rocket has already been tested successfully at a launch from a floating launch pad in the Baltic Sea east of the Danish island of Bornholm and in May the latest rocket engine was tested at Refshaleøen.

The challenge for the team who is developing the rocket is to cross the gap between small amateur rockets to a rocket type, weighing several tons that can lift the capsule weighing 500 kg over the so-called Kármán line 100 kilometres above the surface of Earth. Meanwhile the group diligently works

Danes are heading for outer space with assistance from SolidWorks

The Danish space project Copenhagen Suborbitals will launch a manned capsule into orbit around Earth. SolidWorks and SolidWorks Simulation are crucial in the design and simulation of critical components.

I

Kris

tian

von

Beng

tson

(left

) and

Pet

er M

adse

n, fo

unde

rs o

f the

Co

penh

agen

Sub

orbi

tals

. Pho

to: B

o To

rnvi

g


to design and produce both the rocket and capsule in a way that they will have the least possible environmental impact.

The physical test of the second edition of the space shuttle is concurrently in full operation. The capsule Tycho Deep Space named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and nicknamed ”Beautiful Betty” was in June dropped into the water from the giant portal crane at the former Lindø shipyard on the Danish island of Funen to test the strength and buoyancy. Later this year, a flight with the capsule will be performed with help from a large rescue rocket to test the large parachutes used for the landing in the ocean.

Earlier, another 3D CAD system was donated to Copenhagen Suborbitals, but it never really came into practical use because working with it was too complicated, Kristian von Bengtson explains.In the 1990s he worked with SolidWorks on the school for architecture at the Art Academy in Copenhagen. He says:

”When I first tried SolidWorks in the late 1990s, it was something of a revelation to me. One of the strengths of the CAD system is that it is so easy, intuitive and fast to work with. Therefore, I am very happy with the donation we received a year ago following a deep and professional dialogue with SolidWorks.”

One of the key challenges in the project is to design and simulate a number of critical parts of the rocket and space shuttle. ”With SolidWorks, we have been able to design the exterior of our Apollo-like capsule. It is a cone-shaped sheet metal

assembly, where the accuracy is a crucial factor. We used the CAD system to construct the cone and fold it out, so it was ready for laser cutting, and we have also used the system to construct the flanges that runs down through the rocket engine,” says Kristian von Bengtson. ”The CAD system has made the basic design process of the rocket and capsule extremely fast because we work in 3D and get production-ready models from the design process. It is much faster than working with old-fashioned production drawings, and at the same time we know that what you construct is what you get - things fit just perfectly,” concludes Kristian von Bengtson.

However, 3D design is just one side of the coin, stresses Kristian von Bengtson. Copenhagen Suborbitals has used SolidWorks Simulation to model critical factors such as the strength of different structures and the airflows around the rocket during launch.The rocket team has simulated air pressure of the rocket’s nose and the pressure through the structure when the rocket is moving through the different atmospheric layers at four times the speed of sound. In addition, SolidWorks Simulation was used to simulate the strength of the launch pad that is exposed to extreme loads during the launch of the rocket.”The simulations have been very important for us both to confirm assumptions and remove doubts and we also have the possibility in the future to simulate several things such as heat transfer in the construction,” emphasizes Kristian von Bengtson.

A very important aspect of working with SolidWorks has been information sharing with others, making it possible to involve interested parties all over the world in the project via 3D models, drawings and photorealistic renderings.Kristian von Bengtson is writing a blog for the American magazine Wired and Peter

Madsen, is a blogger for the Danish weekly magazine The Engineer. They use their blogs to distribute 3D models and drawings from the CAD system. In this way, Copenhagen Suborbitals also becomes an Open Source project, where design via networks of engineers has become an important factor. ”We used this method for the design of the hatch of the space capsule. SolidWorks appeared to be a very powerful tool for the communication. When we present a task like this on Wired’s website, we typically receive more than 100 proposals from space enthusiasts and technicians worldwide,” says Kristian von Bengtson.

He also stresses that the CAD system used only in cases where it is really important:”We prefer to buy prefab components whenever possible and then use SolidWorks to fit them together. In the assembly context the CAD system becomes very important.”

Within the next year the final rocket will be ready for its maiden voyage. It has to fly a number of times before the next steps can be taken. Kristian von Bengtson estimates that it will take five years before Copenhagen Suborbitals will be ready to launch a manned spacecraft.

”In this type of project we are subject to a number of different basic conditions that can either help to either promote or delay the project. For example, we can not launch the spacecraft unless the weather is ok,” he stresses. ”In a project like this planning and logistics of the tests and launches are at least as challenging as building the actual rocket and space shuttle.”

www.copenhagensuborbitals.com

HEA

T1X

- Tyc

ho e

ngin

e st

art a

nd li

ftoff;

hot

gas

es a

nd w

ater

vap

or e

nvel

opin

g la

unch

pla

tform

Spu

tnik

. Pho

to: B

o To

rnvi

g


ES Equipment develops products for demand-ing customers in emer-

gency care and emergency services. Products of S-CUT series are used daily in activities where there

is a need to quickly and safely cut the fabric-like material in order to save lives. S-cuts unique design is patented in Europe and patented in the United States.

The small Swedish company ES Equipment has used SolidWorks to develop the S-CUT knife used by rescue workers to cut clothes or leather straps in emergency

and disaster situations as well as in acute hospital work. Due to its special design, the S-CUT has become popular with all kinds of rescue services and hospitals worldwide who are using the knife to replace the traditional scissors.

The knife recently gained notoriety when it was used on the set of the new hollywood remake of ”The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” based on the first part of Stieg Larsson’s world-famous Millennium thriller trilogy.

”We received an inquiry from the American film company asking whether the knife was used in Sweden. Then we heard nothing more, but when I saw the film, I discovered that they actually used the S-CUT,” says Martin Bergstrand, an engineer with responsibility for product development at ES Equipment.

The company was formed in 2005 by Martin Åhlén, Martin Bergstrand and Mimmi Olsson, who all have expertise in medical devices. The trio met during a development project and decided to form a company to develop the S-CUT knife. Today, ES Equipment designs, develops, markets and sells cutting tools based on the original S-CUT design.

Swedish rescue knife in action in Hollywood Millennium movie

Swedish company ES Equipment has developed a special patented knife for rescue work using SolidWorks. The knife has found its way into the new movie “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”.

II


www.esequipment.se

”We need to have a rapid process of development of new products, because we have a very short time-to-market. Customers want products delivered very quickly and the markets are changing very fast. That makes 3D CAD very useful.” Martin Bergstrand, Engineer with responsibility for product development

”We got the idea for the knife in 2004 when we met during a project on the development of medical devices through our previous jobs. A customer participating in the project wanted a tool to replace the scissors used by rescue workers who have to work fast while wearing protective suits when they have to remove clothes from victims of spills of hazardous liquids or release of dangerous gases,” explains Martin Bergstrand.

The answer was S-CUT, which is based on a unique and patented circular blade design. To date, ES Equipment has sold more than 6,000 knives to rescue services and hospitals in Europe, Asia and the US. The design of the

knives is basically the same as when it was developed six years ago, but today it exists in a number of variations.

S-CUT is made solely of machined aluminum which makes it easy and fast to produce and assemble. The knives are assembled, packaged and sent to customers by the company Montex, which also takes care of the manufacturing process through a subcontractor. ES Equipment is doing the design, development, marketing and sales of the products.

When ES Equipment started to develop the knife in 2005, the company had troubles

combining the design ideas with the technical requirements. Five prototypes were made before the final design of the knife was ready. During the development work both SolidWorks and SolidWorks Simulation Xpress became an invaluable help in simulating various properties of the blades.

”The first designs were too heavy, too expensive to manufacture and included too many parts. The knives also had a number of features that it turned out were not needed by our customers. It was a great help for us to work with 3D CAD, because we could easily alternate between different design

ideas and visualize them to the customers. SolidWorks also gave us direct access to information about weight and center of gravity, which are critical factors for the design,” says Martin Bergstrand.

The prototypes were also prepared as rapid prototyping plastic models, which were shown to the potential customers instead of using ordinary 2D drawings. 3D models from SolidWorks were used for the production of the prototypes done by a Rapid Prototyping service bureau.

Mar

tin B

ergs

tran

d, E

ngin

eer


Motoplast is a part of the Finnish industrial group Motoral. Motoplast has 30 years of experience in Rota-

tional Molding of plastic products for Nordic industry. Division was founded 1977. With rotomolding, plastic parts can be molded

economically in a variety of shapes and sizes, many of them difficult to produce by any other process. Rotational molding is a low-pres-sure process, and the strength required from the molds is minimal. This results in its ability to produce large or complex parts with low cost molds, which can be manufactured in few weeks.

SolidWorks brings the customer closerMotoplast a specialist in rotational molding, has moved closer to both new and existing customers by introducing in-house design with SolidWorks.

www.motoplast.fi/english

Motoplast, which is part of the Finnish industrial group Motoral, have adopted SolidWorks to achieve a closer relationship with

its customers among providers of utility vehicles such as tractors and harvesters for the agricultural sector.

The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Helsinki with 25 employees. At the time of its founding, Motoplast was one of the very few Nordic companies that performed rotational molding of plastic parts.

Rotational molding is a niche production method used in connection with production of especially large and complex objects. The advantage of the method is that there are hardly any constraints on the shape of the items, which means that they can very easily be fit into the products they are part of.

Motoplast’s first products were plastic fenders for trucks and waste containers, but

in the late ’90s the company made a strategic decision to move into production of more complex products. Until then, these complex products had usually been produced from expensive materials such as fiberglass or metal, which also placed many restrictions on the design of the products.

The products they produce are for example fuel tanks and other components for agricultural vehicles while 90 percent of customers are Nordic producers of these vehicles. In addition, Motoplast molds numerous other items ranging from small toolbox handles to large tanks for storing heating oil.

When Motoplast receives 3D models of products from customers, they are often not designed by specialists in rotational molding, and thus they do not fit particularly well with the production process nor gain the full benefits from the designing freedom the process offers. Earlier the company has cooperated with a couple of process knowledgeable design companies around the

III

fine-tuning of the models of complex molds in order to enhance the end product as much as possible.

However, last year Motoplast decided to move this part of the product development in-house by investing in SolidWorks and hiring a designer with extensive expertise in designing plastic products, explains development engineer Henri Ström. ”We wanted to streamline our entire process by being able to deliver turnkey solutions and build closer working relationships with customers. Furthermore, we wanted to be more competitive in the Finnish marketplace

for rotational molded products. We aim at always being at the forefront of the technological developments in our business area while delivering maximum value to our partners.”

By investing in SolidWorks and moving the development of molds in-house, the Motoplast company has achieved a number of advantages, not least when it comes to marketing and building customer relationships, stresses Henri Ström. ”It has become a lot easier for us to acquire new customers. By using SolidWorks we easily create contacts with companies that have

development projects, because we can make virtual prototypes and visualize what a solution might look like in a matter of hours. In this context SolidWorks is a very powerful tool. ” Ström also points out that collaboration with customers has become more simple, because there are fewer stakeholders involved in the process from development to production.

Until now, Motoplast was only using a single SolidWorks license for basic 3D design and visualization. The design work is typically based on 3D files received from customers. The files are either almost ready for the

production of molds with Motoplasts mold making subcontractors or require a greater degree of processing before they can be used.

Motoplast is very interested in expanding the use of SolidWorks to simulate and test the strength of the products. Henri Ström also points out that introducing SolidWorks Enterprise PDM could benefit the company’s business process. ”We want to use PDM to integrate our design work into the supply and manufacturing chain by integrating our ERP and design software with our partners’ ERP and MRP systems. This would fit very nicely with our role in the process.”


”It has become a lot easier for us to acquire new customers. By using SolidWorks we easily create contacts with companies that have development projects, because we can make virtual prototypes and visualize what a solution might look like in a matter of hours. In this context SolidWorks is a very powerful tool.” Henri Ström, Development Engineer


Svenska Teknikingenjörer AB has used SolidWorks Simulation for comprehensive and sophisticated simulations to dimension a bicycle and pedestrian bridge over a Swedish river.

Svenska Teknikingenjörer AB, STing AB, performs Electrical and Mechanical engineering as well as

engineering regarding hydraulical systems and programming of PLC and HMI.

Their clients consist of the public administration and other industry. For public administration projects are carried out relating to infrastructure such as bridges, tunnels, and locks.

SolidWorks performs complex simulations to develop a bridge

SolidWorks Simulation has been used to analyze an upcoming draw bridge that will allow pedestrians and cyclists to cross the River Fyrisån in Uppsala,

Sweden and ensure it will carry the weight of its users.

The company behind the simulations is Svenska Teknikingenjörer AB (Sting) located in the city of Trollhättan. Sting is an engineering firm with 14 employees that specializes in consulting and engineering in the fields of electricity, mechanics and hydraulics, and among the specialties are

engineering tasks associated with bridge building projects. The company’s customers are primarily coming from the public sector and industry.

The bridge in Uppsala is based on a concept called a Dutch drawbridge with an overhead counterweight that weighs 20 tons. The counterweight is used to ensure that the bridge can easily be opened by means of a hydraulic system. The moveable part of the bridge is 11.3 meters long, 5.5 meters wide and weighs 16 tons. The entire construction is made of steel. The bridge is being built at

the moment but will not be placed until after the boat season.

The biggest challenge in doing the simulations needed for an optimal construction of the bascule bridge was the physical size and sleek design of the bridge, says Albin Särndahl, who is an engineer with Sting. ”Because of the size, it was a big task to make up the complex grid (meshing), which forms the base. Strength calculations were carried out based on the Finite Element Method (FEM). The size of the grid made it necessary to perform very large calculations,

but SolidWorks Simulation solved the task without problems.”

The engineering firm has simulated various parts of the bridge’s construction in order to analyze the buckling, tensile strength, buckling and natural frequency, and after the simulations the design of the bridge fully meets the requirements of the Eurocode standard for this type of construction.

The 3D CAD model of the draw bridge was originally constructed in another 3D CAD system, but Sting preferred to make it ready

The Best of Simulation

Albi

n Sä

rnda

hl, E

ngin

eer


www.sting.nu

for construction with SolidWorks because the company believes SolidWorks Simulation is the best to resolve the simulation tasks. The company currently has two SolidWorks licenses. ”After the simulations we used SolidWorks to redesign the undersized portions of the bridge. We would have liked to have done the full design task in SolidWorks, but we had a model from another CAD system as the starting point,” says Albin Särndahl.

Albin Särndahl says that Sting are quite pleased to collaborate with PLM Group: ”We’ve had training with PLM Group, and we have regular contact with the support department. We are very pleased with the cooperation,” he stresses.

”Because of the size, it was a big task to make up the complex grid (meshing), which forms the base. Strength calculations were carried out based on the Finite Element Method (FEM). The size of the grid made it necessary to perform very large calculations, but SolidWorks Simulation solved the task without problems.” Albin Särndahl, Engineer


We have a pleasure to invite you to the SolidWorks 2013 Launch Event. We offer You an exciting networking event, where you will be presented to:

Welcome to the SolidWorks 201 3 Launch Event!

T IME TO MOVE INTO POWERFUL NEW SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE T RUE PERFORMANCE

What s new!SolidWorks 2013 product portfolio.

Improve productivity. Tips and tricks.

New solutions for product lifecycle management

Guest speaker. Sharing product development experience.Breakout sessions during lunch.i

The Events will be held at these locations:

18.10 Lahti, Finland 22.10 Malmö, Sweden 23.10 Gothenburg, Sweden23.10 Turku, Finland 24.10 Jönköping, Sweden 24.10 Tampere, Finland24.10 Roskilde, Denmark 25.10 Horsens, Denmark25.10 Västerås, Sweden26.10 Tallinn, Estonia30.10 Kokkola, Finland (in swedish)30.11 Riga, Latvia (in russian)

SAVE T IME WITH SOLIDWORKS 201 3!

Keep yourself updated with the latest knowledge in the product lifecycle management.It is also networking with colleagues from different industries and share experiences with other users and PLM Group employees.

We are looking forward to welcome you on the SolidWorks 2013 Launch Event!

Jess G. Frandsen, CEO, PLM Group

Reserve the date and register online today www.plmgroup.eu/sw2013


Pemamek Oy Ltd is specialist in designing and manufacturing welding mechanisation and

automation systems, and work-piece handling equipment. Pemamek uses and produces hi-tech: utilising the best

available robot and automation technology, every PEMA product and system is uncompromisingly designed to improve customer competitiveness and productivity. Established in 1970, Pemamek has constantly strived to supply the best welding automation solutions in the world.

www.pemamek.fi/eng

Better technical documentation leads to happier customers and partners3DVIA Composer has created new opportunities for the welding automation company Pemamek with visual and interactive 3D technical documentation.

Pemamek is the world’s leading supplier of PEMA high-tech solutions for mechanization and automation of welding as well as handling issues during the welding

process. The Finnish company has used 3DVIA Composer to open the doors to a brave new world when it comes to technical documentation.

The 140 employees at Pemamek develop and manufacture solutions for welding in areas such as heavy engineering industry, mobile machinery, infrastructure, industrial boilers, wind power industry, nuclear plants, process industries and ship building and offshore. The company manufactures a range of standard products, which are increasingly supplemented by project work in the development of comprehensive welding solutions.

Pemamek has close partnerships with the world’s two major players in welding technology and welding robotics; American Lincoln Electric Corporation and Yaskawa-Motoman from Japan. Ninty percent of

the products from the company with headquarters in Loimaa, 65 kilometers north of Turku are exported while more than half is sold in countries outside Europe.

Pemamek has previously relied on text-based technical documentation, which in recent years was supplemented with photos but gradually it became clear that the company needed to improve the quality of the documentation.

”To meet the requirements from our partners we need to do detailed visualizations of our products and solutions as well as the procedures for installation and maintenance of our equipment. We sell our standard products through partners and have no contact with the end users, which makes it very important to provide them

with optimal documentation.” Mika Liinanotko, Director of Hard Automation Products and Customer Support

”This applies not only to documentation, but also to verbal instructions via Internet or e-mail. We can now add images and videos that show customers how specific problems can be solved,” adds Liinanotko about their application to troubleshooting.

Mika Liinanotko explains that Pemamek chose 3DVIA Composer for various reasons. ”We have been using SolidWorks 3D CAD for 10 years and we have been very pleased with the support from PLM Group. We chose 3D VIA Composer partly because of support and partly because of the integration between the two products.”

IT Administrator Mikko Salonen adds: “We currently use one 3DVIA Composer license with 3D CAD files imported from SolidWorks as the basis for preparing the documentation. 3D files from 3DVIA

Composer are easy to work with for our service people because it requires no special knowledge of CAD to use them. It is easy to open large assembly designs and take the parts you need.”

Pemamek has rapidly achieved a number of advantages using 3DVIA Composer: “The better documentation means that the overall customer satisfaction with our products is higher because our services have been greatly improved. Moreover, the need for telecommunication is substantially reduced and we have had a much shorter response time to queries from customers about our services. Furthermore, life has become easier for our partners because they have access to much better and more effective documentation,” says Mika Liinanotko. ”We have just implemented the system, and we use only a small corner of it, so we do not know yet where the road will take us. The system has countless opportunities and we can obviously expand our use of it further.”

Mika Liinanotko Mikko Salonen

FINALIST

www.pemamek.fi/eng CH DesKon is a small one man company within the field of mechanical design. CH DesKon

has more than 28 years of experience of mechanical design

and has been using advanced 3D CAD for design and simulations for more than 13 years.

Massive water gate constructed like a puzzle in SolidWorksDesigned like a large puzzle of welded steel plates, a massive hinged has been designed with SolidWorks by the 3D CAD consultancy company CH DesKon.

www.chdeskon.com

SolidWorks has made it possible to construct a giant hinged dam gate like a complex puzzle of steel plates. The gate is produced from steel plates fitted together as one would construct pieces of a puzzle. The 3D CAD models made it possible to cut the plates in a way that they fit together precisely.

Not only is the design impressive but the consulting firm responsible, CH DesKon, is a one-man operation with offices in the village Sjöbo in the southern Skåne province of Sweden. For many years Christer Holmgren did consultancy work as a side job while he was working for different companies as a mechanic and later an engineer. However, in 1999 he decided to change consultancy into a full time job and started his own firm.

CH DesKon is doing complex 3D design work for other companies in particular the

design of heavy steel structures such as the dam gate for hydroelectric power plants. Since the founding of his company, Christer Holmgren has been used SolidWorks and today he uses SolidWorks Premium very intensively for both design, simulation and production of photorealistic renderings.The dam gate is called a segment port and is used to release large volumes of water from a water reservoir. It was originally designed using a 2D CAD program, but the production company wanted it delivered as an assembly designed in SolidWorks. This brought CH DesKon into the picture.

”Because SolidWorks is a 3D application that requires greater accuracy, I found a few errors in the original design, which I could easily correct. In principle, I have made a drawing of each of the many steel plates, making the manufacture of them relatively uncomplicated,” says Christer Holmgren.

The individual design files from SolidWorks was converted to DWG format and then fed into the cutting machine. The result was finished plates that fit together perfectly. After the cutting process, the plates were first stitched together before the final welding process took place.

”The benefits of using SolidWorks becomes very obvious when I try out various new methods of design, especially when I am working on revising older designs that contain construction errors. For the heavy structures, it is also very valuable to be able to determine the center of gravity, both in order to be able to

handle them in the production and in the subsequent assembly. Furthermore, the surfaces of the 3D-model shows me which areas need to be painted.” Christer Holmgren

He also points out that both PhotoView 360 and eDrawings are highly useful communication tools:“My office is not situated close to the majority of my clients and many of them are not able to read and understand 2D drawings. PhotoView 360 and eDrawings are perfect tools to communicate with the clients around the design tasks I perform for them.”


FINALIST

A gate in a sluice that can control the flow of water.

RUNI A/S is a Danish screw-compactor manufacturer, established on 1973. RUNI’s

machines are used to add value to a large number of

different materials, either by making them suitable for recycling and onward sale, or by reducing costs of transport, disposal or energy consumption.

RUNI A/S which is headquartered in the danish city of Tarm in Jutland, has gained great benefits from using SolidWorks and SolidWorks Enterprise PDM in both development and sales. The development department

has been able to significantly reduce the development time for new products.

RUNI was founded in 1973 and today has 16 employees engaged in the development, production and sale of the company’s efficient and energy saving screw compactors for compacting waste.

Additionally, the machines are used for compacting plastic bottles and metal containers such as cans and buckets. The compactors are also able to dewater the products by separating liquids and solids.

The company uses its three SolidWorks licenses for construction of the screw compactors and is also using PhotoView 360 to produce photorealistic images of the machines for its sales department. All technical information is controlled by SolidWorks Enterprise PDM, where RUNI is also using three licenses.

RUNI were previously using another 3D CAD system, but it was very complex in daily use. With SolidWorks, the development department has managed to cut development time for new products by up to 30 percent, estimates Niels Nielsen, a designer and technical support manager at RUNI:

”SolidWorks is very easy and fast to use, and it is easy to find technicians who are trained in using the system. At the same time we were about to update the document database for our existing CAD system and it was cheaper to move to SolidWorks

and SolidWorks Enterprise PDM than to do the upgrade.” Niels Nielsen, Designer and Technical Support Manager.He points out that the user friendliness in SolidWorks, combined with the fact that so many technical people today are trained in the use of the CAD system are very important parameters for RUNI: ”It is vital for us that we can find people who from day one can get started creating value with the CAD system.It would not have been possible with the previous system.”

Niels Nielsen describes SolidWorks Enterprise PDM as the lifeblood of RUNI: “We manage drawings and revisions with the PDM system and convey product information to our ERP system. We have complete track of the history around our 3D


SolidWorks simplifies recruitment of new employeesRUNI A/S has cut one-third of the development time for its waste compactors with SolidWorks. It is also very easy to find technical staff who are familiar with the CAD system.

www.runi.dk

FINALIST

SK370 screw compactors are large, versatile machines for compacting and dewatering a wide range of different materials like EPS, aluminum cans, PET bottles, cartons, etc. Several of the materials can be sold for recycling after compression.

www.runi.dkmodels and drawings, and we can quickly search and find them. We could not do this without the system today and although it requires an investment, I strongly recommend the system to every company who is using SolidWorks.”The next CAD challenge RUNI is facing is to automate the design work and drawing production using a product configuration tool, says Niels Nielsen. He estimates that RUNI could realize

considerable time savings in its product development work. At the same time, he expects that the product configuration will be an effective tool in the sales work, where the company’s sales people with 3D information from the CAD system at sales meetings will be able to configure customized machines: ”We are looking at using one of the tools that exist for SolidWorks, and I expect that we will be embarking on an automation

project for our design work during the coming year,” he says. RUNI also is considering to use 3DVIA Composer to produce technical documentation in the future, says Niels Nielsen. ”We will for example be able use the system to produce technical manuals and maintain them, and I am excited to learn more about the details of the system.”

”SolidWorks is very easy and fast to use, and it is easy to find technicians who are trained in using the system. At the same time we were about to update the document database for our existing CAD system and it was cheaper to move to SolidWorks and SolidWorks Enterprise PDM than to do the upgrade.” Niels Nielsen, Designer and Technical Support Manager

Runi’s silo system is designed to compress large amounts of material using a silo as a buffer against peak loads. This saves man-hours and minimizes the amount of wasted time, since the free-standing shredder has a significantly higher capacity than the compressor.


Wihuri Oy Technical Trade (WOTT) is a division of the Wihuri Group, a Finnish

and international industrial and trading conglomerate founded in 1901. The group currently employs around

4,900 staff and uses SolidWorks in several divisions. Wihuri Oy Technical Trade has used SolidWorks to develop an ergonomic workbench for maintainance of huge work vehicles.

Cleaver workbench design adds safety to dangerous work

The maintenance of hydraulic cylinders from huge construction vehicles is often both difficult and dangerous to perform. In addition, the work can damage the

cylinders, because the maintenance work typically is carried out without the use of proper tools.

Wihuri Oy Technical Trade (WOTT) in the Finnish town of Raahe has solved this problem using SolidWorks to design an ergonomic workbench that makes proper disassembly and assembly of the cylinders a simple and secure task.

WOTT is a division of the Wihuri Group, a Finnish and international industrial and trading conglomerate founded in 1901.

The group currently employs around 4,900 staff and uses SolidWorks in several divisions. WOTT is a trading company that sells machinery and equipment for production, logistics and construction vehicles. The company imports a vast array of construction machinery including: engines and aggregates from Caterpillar, warehouse trucks and lifts from Linde, Wille municipial machines, heating systems and air conditioners for vehicles from Eberspächer and Finn Climate, tools from Mazak plus a wide selection of tools and equipment for auto repair shops.

“By using a 3D CAD system in the development of the workbench, we succeeded in constructing a prototype of the workbench, which was almost ready for

production. However some minor changes to the basic design in regard to operation, ergonomics, safety and accessories were necessary,” explains Esa Savolainen, the development engineer at WOTT using Solidworks Premium. “But after a few corrections it has not been necessary to produce further prototypes, which has saved a lot of valuable time in development work,” he says.

The work table means that it becomes easy to fasten the piston nut of the big cylinder, so the very high torque is correct. As for ergonomics, the table ensures that the cylinder is located at the right work height, and there is space around the cylinder to perform maintenance work. The table can also be moved when there is a need for connection of power.

“We used the 3D model to analyze the working table function, ergonomics and safety. For safety reasons, the table structure is designed to be able to withstand high loads. SolidWorks has also made it easy to produce operational and safety instructions and diagrams as well as maintenance and spareparts booklets.” Esa Savolainen, Development Engineer

www.wihuri.fi

Wihuri Oy Technical Trade has used SolidWorks to develop an ergonomic workbench for maintainance of huge work vehicles. The clever table eliminates the difficult and dangerous tast of maintaining the hydraulic cylinders found on massive work vehicles.

FINALIST

www.plmgroup.eu/webshop

SpaceNavigatorTMSpaceMouseTMProSpacePilotTMPro


Single elderly people living in their own homes and their next of kin are often is haunted by fear of not being able to get quick help if they become ill or fall. A new alarm wrist watch from the Finnish company Vivago means that the elderly and their

families can throw this fear overboard.

The alarm wrist watch dubbed the “Vivago CARE 8000” automatically monitors the movements of the elderly. It learns the users habits and calls for help when needed.

Since the start in 1994, Vivago has built up a company with 20 employees specializing in the development of intelligent telecare products for preventive personal and institutional care. The products are alarm wrist watches that are used to remotely monitor the health of users and to automatically

give an alarm, if there is a need for help from family or health care professionals.

Since 2002, Vivago has been using SolidWorks and all the company’s products are designed with the 3D CAD system. The production has been outsourced to a number of Finnish subcontractors.

A number of external design firms were chosen to come up with initial design proposals for the new alarm wrist watch. The proposals were all rejected because they were too technically complicated and thus not simple and easy enough for older users with lack of technical skills. Instead Vivago decided to design the product in house in collaboration with a group of nurses, who today also participates in the company’s sales efforts.

www.vivago.comVivago is a forerunner in personal health technology whose know-how consists

of intelligent safety and wellbeing solutions. Vivago was established in 1994 to develop, sell and market

automatic personal safety solutions for the monitoring and analysis of activity levels. Based on their patented know-how, their solutions offer unique solutions for individual needs, including automatic alarms and continuous monitoring of the user’s wellbeing.

Vivago OY has won the prestigious reddot design award for an advanced alarm wrist watch for elderly people that automatically calls for help if they need it. The alarm wrist watch is designed using SolidWorks.

Alarm wrist watch for elderly wins prestigious reddot design award

From left Sami Oittinen, Anna Kaisa Kylmä and Tapio Grönros


Using SolidWorks, the development department together with the nurses were able to test various concepts, explains Tapio Grönros, who is a mechanical designer and is responsible for product design at Vivago.

”We designed metal parts, plastic parts and did the full electromechanical design in SolidWorks. We also made rapid prototyping models of different concepts. The 3D models in SolidWorks combined with the prototypes made it easy for nurses to understand the ideas in the design through the development process,” he explains.

Tapio Grönros adds that he used SolidWorks Simulation Xpress to simulate the strength of some of the critical components of the alarm wrist watch.

SolidWorks has also played a crucial role in the marketing of the Vivago 8000. Tapio Grönros used SolidWorks PhotoView 360 to produce a series of photorealistic renderings from the 3D models generated in the 3D CAD system. Marketing director Sami Oittinen explains, ”We’ve had really good feedback on these visualizations from our distributors. Some of them could barely understand that they were not real photos of the product, but with one single exception we have never done any photography sessions.” He adds: ”It’s also easy to import items such as logo text in the renderings, so all in all, SolidWorks

has proved to be a very effective marketing tool for us.”

The visualizations from PhotoView 360 have also been used to display different design concepts to end users during development and in the production of big posters for exhibitions. ”It’s been an almost overwhelmingly positive experience using SolidWorks in the development process. We have been able to test our ideas together with end users and adjust the product based on their feedback without having to spend time producing physical prototypes.” Sami Oittinen, Marketing Director

”The whole development process has been very flexible and fast, because we have always been able to get feedback on our ideas and implement the ideas very quickly,” adds R&D Director Anna Kaisa Kylmä. ”For an agile company like ours, it is a huge advantage to be able to work in this way,” says Sami Oittinen.

Phot

orea

listic

rend

erin

gs fr

om th

e 3D

mod

els d

one

with

Sol

idW

orks

Pho

toVi

ew 3

60

Designer team takes SolidWorks around the globeDanish industrial design firm Mencke & Vagnby is heading out on a world tour with SolidWorks to introduce potential new customers to their unique Danish industrial design.

Since the founding in 2004, Mencke & Vagnby have been a Copenhagen based, interna-

tionally-oriented design company. The two owners have worked to develop industrial products, furniture, transport solutions and architecture.

The office door is locked, the suitcases are packed and the whole business is gathered on a laptop with SolidWorks. First Karina Mencke and Marcus Vagnby will be

going for three months to the United States and afterwards they will spend three months criss crossing Europe. For the moment, that is the planning horizon for the design company.

Since the founding in 2004, Mencke & Vagnby have been a Copenhagen, based internationally-oriented design company. The two owners have worked to develop industrial products, furniture, transport solutions and architecture. ”We have now moved our entire office to a powerful laptop, and during our trip we will use SolidWorks for all our development of new products and solutions,” explains Marcus Vagnby.” Our previous office could almost be compared to a workshop for model building. Now our development work is going to to be fully digital.”

The two designers have several goals for their journey. They want to sell their lamp ”Snowflower” which they have designed and produced through their own company ShapingYourDay.com. In addition, they will be visiting potential customers and servicing existing ones. Last but not least, they want to get air under their creative wings and generate ideas for new design projects.

Until 2007 Mencke & Vagnby used exterior drawing capacity, but then they decided to buy a 3D CAD system to do all their development work and SolidWorks was the obvious choice, says Marcus Vagnby: ”The ability to do model complex items and precision of design were crucial. Furthermore, we design a lot of products where we need to edit the models. In this context the built-in history in SolidWorks models is a wonderful tool. Finally, it is very easy to disseminate information using the tools of the CAD system. We use both 3D models and

photorealistic visualizations of our products in the communications with our manufacturers and customers.”

The Snowflower lamp is 100 percent developed using SolidWorks. 3D CAD system has been an invaluable help while the lamp consists of many small parts that must fit together. In parallel with the design work Mencke & Vagnby made physical show models in cardboard and by using 3D printing to evaluate the design:

”SolidWorks is especially strong when you have to handle many complex parts which have to fit together in one assembly. We made a detailed and accurate design of the rather complex structure of the lamp, while we at the same time have been absolutely certain that it could be produced,” says Marcus Vagnby.

www.menckevagnby.com

The packaging of Snowflower has been fully integrated into the design phase. The two designers have gone to great lengths to to ensure that the lamp is packed as compact as possible in a relatively small box and throughout the design process they have been in close contact with the manufacturer of the packaging.” Things are packed to ensure that the customer can assemble of the lamp in the right steps, and the box also contains a cord winder, which ensures that the cord will be straight when unpacked,” says Marcus Vagnby.

Today Mencke & Vagnby demands from their producing partners, that they use 3D models from SolidWorks as the basis for production.

”There are many small details in our designs and even quite simple topics can be difficult to understand from 2D drawings. In the lamp project, we experienced that production went flawlessly because we had provided the producers with an accurate basis,” underlines Marcus Vagnby.

Mencke & Vagnby will spend one month ”on the road” in the U.S. and afterwards reside in an apartment in New York for two months. They will then head back to Europe with lots of inspiration and SolidWorks models in their luggage - the rest of the story has yet to be written!


”SolidWorks is especially strong when you have to handle many complex parts which have to fit together in one assembly. We made a detailed and accurate design of the rather complex structure of the lamp, while we at the same time have been absolutely certain that it could be produced.” Marcus Vagnby


Product News!SolidWorks Electrical 3DReal-time integration of 2D and 3D electrical system design

Increasingly products have embedded electrical content, including power systems, user controls, complex wiring, and harnesses. SolidWorks® Electrical simplifies electrical system design with its intelligent design tools, comprehensive parts database, and real-time integration of your 2D schematics and 3D models. The simple, intuitive design makes both electrical and mechanical engineers more productive, enabling increased collaboration

and integrated Bills of Materials (BOMs) and project data. The results are fewer mistakes and complications, for faster time-to-market. The SolidWorks Electrical product line includes

1. SOLIDWORKS ELECTRICAL -2D dynamic electrical schematic creation:

• Simplifies electrical design with a dynamic, context-sensitive user interface, providing the ability to quickly turn concepts into detailed designs.

• Multiple users can work together to generate complex single-line or multi-line schematics and automate wiring of PLCs and terminal strips. You can easily reuse portions of existing circuits in new designs to speed development and maintain consistency.

2. SOLIDWORKS ELECTRICAL 3D -Use your schematic data to model your electrical system in 3D (including cables and wires)

• An add-in to SolidWorks CAD application that connects SolidWorks Electrical 2D systems level schematics to 3D models designed with SolidWorks.

• Real-time, bi-directional updates between 2D and 3D to synchronize electro-mechanical designs so that consistency is maintained throughout development and unify your BOMs to reduce mistakes and delays.

3. SOLIDWORKS ELECTRICAL PROFESSIONAL SolidWorks Electrical and SolidWorks Electrical 3D combined for creating both electrical schematics and 3D models

Combine both 2D schematic creation and 3D electrical system modeling.• SolidWorks Electrical and SolidWorks Electrical 3D in one convenient package• Single installation and licensing step


ANALYZE AND OPTIMIZE A RANGE

OF GEOMETRIES INCLUDING THIN-

WALLED PLASTIC PARTS

SolidWorks Plastics 2012Optimize the design of plastic arts and injection molds

SolidWorks Plastics is offered in two packages:

FOR PLASTICS PART DESIGNERSSolidWorks Plastics Professional

The most cost-effective time to optimize plastic parts for manufacturability is during the initialstages of product design. Skipping this step often leads to an inefficient mold design with anextremely narrow “good parts” processing window, resulting in high reject rates and time-to market delays. Do you face these questions: Will my part fill? Where are the weld lines? Will there be air traps?SolidWorks Plastics Professional will help you address these issues allowing you to bring your products to market before your competition

FOR MOLD DESIGNERS AND MOLD MAKERSSolidWorks Plastics Premium

SolidWorks Plastics Premium allows you to quickly evaluate single cavity, multi-cavity and family mold layouts, including sprues, runners, and gates. You can even balance runner systems and estimate cycle time, clamp tonnage, and shot size, enabling you to optimize feed system design and avoid costly mold rework.

...OR THICK AND CHUNKY PARTS THAT ARE SOLID IN NATURE

SolidWorks® Plastics helps you to predict and avoid manufacturing defects during the earliest stages of Design, enabling you to eliminate costly rework, improve product quality and accelerate time to market

Fully integrated with SolidWorks, this helps part designers and mold makers to quickly optimize their part and mold designs for manufacturability without leaving their familiar 3D SolidWorks modeling environment. SolidWorks Plastics provides users with valuable knowledge so they can determine whether changes to the part geometry,

mold design, material selection or processing conditions will have a positive impact on the ability to easily manufacture their products.


Whether you’re an engineer designing intricate 3D models, designing complex mechanical assemblies, performing Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), calculating sophisticated

geometry or even rendering high resolution imagery, our bespoke range of workstations give industry professionals the power and performance required to not just meet but exceed the rigorous performance requirements of today’s leading 3D design and analysis .

PLM Group offers a wide range of high-quality workstations for SolidWorks engineers and designers. The workstations using the latest technology which is tested and accepted by Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation.

We focus on CAD designer´s needs and sell only hardware which operates reliably and efficiently, is quiet and easy to use, so that the work will be done as comfortable as possible.

www.plmgroup.eu/webshop

Give yourself an engineering edge!HP workstations- amazing performance and reliability for SolidWorks users.


PDM on demand with unparalleled flexibilityWith a new PLM solution from PLM Group it is both easy, inexpensive and flexible for companies to introduce PDM and adapt the solution as needs changes.

In the future it becomes possible for PLM Group’s customers to subscribe to a very sophisticated PDM solution that is comparable to the IT infrastructure of the biggest international companies. The solution for instance would be ideal for companies working with departments in geographically dispersed locations both nationally and internationally.

CEO Jess G. Frandsen, PLM Group explains:”We will offer a PDM solution based on a Private Hosting / Private Cloud concept, hosted by two of the largest IT operations centers in the Nordics. Data on the servers are redundant and mirrored and the servers are located in different geographical locations, so uptime will always be top notch. The system also ensures continous backup of all data.”

The solution can be described as “PDM-by-cable”, which makes it possible to ”tap” more or less advanced PDM services, depending on the individual wants and needs. You can add or remove users when needed via the role-based thin clients that are installed on the individual users’ machines.

”The performance of the system is comparable to having an in house PDM system, and it is flexible because our customers do not have to make massive investments in servers, backup and other IT equipment to get started. A company only will need a subscription which includes that the desired number of users can install the clients. Then the system will be up and running instantly,” says Jess G. Frandsen.

He points out that the solution also implies that the company will not have to involve their IT department in the PDM-area. It is not necessary for the IT function to have to consider new servers, backup or agreements with other IT vendors.

”Our partner is one of the largest and most professional data centers in the Nordics and we have a service provider who takes care of all operations on servers and backup. In the last few months

we have been running tests at our different geographical locations in Sweden Denmark and Finland and the performance of the solution is pretty impressive,” says Jess G. Frandsen.

It is possible for companies to subscribe to the PDM-services precisely tailored to their needs. A solution can range from less complex to the most sophisticated PDM services depending on the the characteristics of the CAD-models involved and the size of them.The solution is built around the PDM system, SolidWorks Enterprise PDM and is complemented by a range of advanced software products developed by PLM Group. In addition to this PLM Group offers a number of options that, depending on the use of the system, will ensure a smooth and continous maintenance of the clients connected to the system.

HostPLM™ solution will be ready this year and we expect great interest in the new system,” says Jess G. Frandsen.

• Get instant security of your project data• Collaborate with your design teams with superior performance • Invite your vendors and partners to your project portal • Access your data from anywhere


Tampere

Turku Espoo

Tallinn

Riga

Roskilde

Århus

Skelle�eå

Stockholm

NorrköpingGöteborg

Värnamo

Malmö

VästeråsKarlstad

PLM Group Sverige ABStenfalksvägen 2 - S-331 41 VärnamoTlf +46-(0)370-690 950 - Fax: +46-(0)370-69 09 51 [email protected] www.plmgroup.se

PLM Group Danmark A/SLangebjergvænget 4 - DK-4000 RoskildeTlf: +45 70 22 22 80 - Fax: +45 70 22 22 81 [email protected] www.plmgroup.dk

PLM Group Suomi OyPuutarhakatu 53 - FI-20100 TurkuPuh +358 207 809 560 - Fax +358 207 809 550 [email protected] www.plmgroup.fi

PLM Group Eesti OÜPeterburi tee 46/314, EE-11415 TallinnTlf/Fax +372 6 139 [email protected]

PLM Group Latvija SiASmilšu iela 8, LV-1050 Rīgatālr. +371 2680 [email protected]

Documents

PLMagazine 2012 eng