Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Tool Building with PTC: GPlast
G.D.Naidu is the most interesting person you never heard of. Called the Edison of India, Naidu manufactured the first electric car in that country. He developed super-thin shaving blades, a fruit juice extractor, and voting machines. He experimented with new varieties of cotton and papaya. He started an engineering college. And he founded GPlast, a tooling shop based in his hometown, Coimbatore.
A technological pioneer and legend, Naidu died in 1974. Gplast, on the other hand, still thrives.
GPlast is a one-stop shop with more than 40 years of expertise in tooling, plastic injection molding, and pressure die casting. Its customers come from automotive, aerospace, electronics, home appliance, and medical industries.
GPlast expertise spans tooling, plastic injection molding, and pressure die casting
Its engineering software? That’s PTC Creo.
GPlast has been a long-time user of PTC engineering software and recently upgraded to PTC Creo. The engineering team also uses PTC Creo Tool Design Extension (TDX).
PTC Creo TDX is for professional designers who need to rapidly create higher quality mold inserts, casting cavities, and patterns. It features a variety of 3D CAD tools specifically engineered to accelerate the design of molds and castings.
3D models created in PTC Creo automatically reference the mold and casting designs in PTC Creo Tool Design Extension, so any changes to the geometry are instantly reflected in the associated tooling and patterns. Together with Moldex3D software, the company can quickly analyze and address any warpage issues.
Warpage results of optimzied designs–real injected part and simulation result
With this powerful arsenal of engineering software, the GPlast says it’s seeing significant results. Lead times are down 30% and design reviews with the internal team and customers now include better visualization.
Plus, GPlast now generates design drawings using PTC Creo and uses them for die manufacturing. That eliminates 2D CAD work, which results in a time savings of 20%.
“We are impressed with the PTC solution and how it is helping us to meet our targets and satisfy customer needs with improved design quality, says Vipin. P. S, Design Head.
You can find out more about how PTC Creo helps companies go from design to fabrication in record time with this PTC Creo Tool Design Extension information sheet (pdf). And keep coming back to this blog for more stories about companies like GPlast in our series Tooling with PTC Creo.
- See more at: http://creo.ptc.com/2014/07/03/tool-building-with-ptc-gplast/#sthash.V1OHV0tE.dpuf
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
PTC Introduces PTC Creo 3.0
PTC Introduces PTC Creo 3.0 with Unite Technology, Delivering Unparalleled Multi-CAD Data Handling Capabilities
Enabling customers to work with and consolidate data from any CAD source; providing new tools to foster innovation in concept development; and making everyday design tasks easierNEEDHAM, MA - June 16, 2014 - PTC (Nasdaq: PTC) today announced the latest release of its PTC Creo® revolutionary 3D product design software. With PTC Creo 3.0, PTC introduces new UniteTM technology which significantly enhances the ability to use CAD files from a variety of systems directly in PTC Creo. PTC Creo 3.0 also empowers innovation through more powerful, seamlessly integrated concept design tools ensuring efforts undertaken in concept design can be fully reused in the detailed design process. Key productivity enhancements within the release further add to customers' ability to focus on higher levels of innovation and product quality.
"With PTC Creo 3.0, we continue to deliver on the PTC strategy. Our ground breaking Unite technology addresses the data and process-related challenges of CAD consolidation. By enabling designers to convert data ‘as needed, when needed', and only converting the data that requires modification, organizations can save a tremendous amount of effort and cost," said Michael Campbell, Executive Vice President CAD Segment, PTC. "In situations where development teams need to collaborate across CAD formats, Unite technology enables designers to create and protect design intent between PTC Creo and other CAD data. This both significantly reduces the efforts needed to maintain design integrity and enables collaboration to take place earlier and more often in the design process."
"With Unite technology, richer and truly integrated concept design tools, and a continued emphasis on day-day productivity gains, this new release empowers our customers to bring greater efficiency to their product development process," continued Campbell.
Unite Technology
Unite technology in PTC Creo 3.0 enables CAD data of varying formats to be used directly in the PTC Creo ParametricTM, Creo DirectTM, Creo SimulateTM, and Creo Options ModelerTM apps. As a result, this release enables significant efficiencies to be achieved when consolidating multiple CAD systems onto PTC Creo, as well as when collaborating with others using different CAD tools. These efficiencies enable improvements in on-time delivery, product quality and desirability by allowing design teams to spend more time innovating and less time on non-value add tasks such as recreating design intent and redundant file management.
How Unite Technology supports more effective CAD Consolidation:
- Easily reuse existing CAD data as is, in its current format, with no need for a costly upfront migration
- Convert existing legacy data to PTC Creo easily, on demand, and only when modifications are actually needed
- No need to convert entire assemblies to modify individual parts, simply convert parts as changes are required
How Unite Technology supports more effective CAD Collaboration:
- Open SolidWorks®, CATIA® and NXTM files directly in PTC Creo without the need for additional software
- Import SolidWorks, CATIA, NX, Solid Edge® and Autodesk® Inventor® files into PTC Creo without the need for additional software
- Enable higher levels of concurrent engineering between the product development teams and suppliers/partners/customers by allowing designers to quickly and easily incorporate CAD data created in other systems earlier in the process, create design intent across CAD formats and, as new versions of the non-PTC Creo data are updated in the assembly, ensure that any design intent build between the original part and the PTC Creo parts are protected when the part is updated.
- Support on-time delivery by ensuring that consistency and integrity are maintained between in-house and outsourced design data over the course of product development
- Promote the reuse and sharing of data
- Eliminate the need to manage many secondary formats, and significantly reduce the need to export data in neutral formats. Data can be shared in customer/supplier's native format
PTC Creo 3.0 delivers new and enhanced concept design tools that give product development teams the flexibility and control they need to develop higher quality, better designed products. PTC Creo also continues to ensure that efforts undertaken at the concept design stage are fully reusable in later stages of the product development process.
Specific benefits for concept design from the PTC Creo 3.0 suite include:
- AlignTM FreestyleTM design functionality (part of PTC Creo Parametric) enables designers to create and drive freeform designs parametrically, combining organic geometry creation and modification with associative parametric design intent.
- Greater scalability and richer tools in PTC Creo Layout to support 2D concept engineering activities with seamless re-use in the 3D parametric environment
- A more powerful and easier to use 3D direct modeling app (PTC Creo Direct) for quickly creating concept designs that are fully reusable in PTC Creo Parametric
- PTC Creo Design Exploration Extension provides a dedicated environment in PTC Creo Parametric for developing design alternatives, investigating modeling approaches and safely understanding the consequences of design changes. It significantly reduces the current level of manual effort and overhead required to undertake these activities.
PTC Creo 3.0 introduces new and enhanced capabilities and workflows to make everyday design tasks easier. This enables productivity increases and enables individuals and design teams to focus on driving the development of more innovative and higher quality products, while supporting on-time delivery.
Some of the most significant improvements in the core aspects of the PTC Creo suite include:
- New graphical realism support
- Extensive hardware libraries and automated fastener assembly workflows
- New and improved help system with dedicated tools for new users
- New flexible modeling capabilities
- New and enhanced analysis tools
- Core modeling enhancements
- Sheet metal modeling enhancements
Additional Resources:
About PTCPTC (Nasdaq: PTC) enables manufacturers to achieve sustained product and service advantage. PTC's technology solutions help customers transform the way they create, operate and service products for a smart, connected, world. Founded in 1985, PTC employs approximately 6,000 professionals serving more than 28,000 businesses in rapidly-evolving, globally distributed manufacturing industries worldwide. Get more information at PTC.com.
Friday, June 13, 2014
Massive Machines: Maquiaridos Delivers for the Mining Industry
Companies that focus on products for mining and construction can produce anything from crane systems that can reach 100m up in the sky to hydraulic roof supports that keep open mines deep in the ground.
No matter their solution, they all share many of the same challenges. For example, how do you design a product that’s too big to physically prototype and yet also too expensive for do overs if you get it wrong?
Over the next few weeks, we’ll try to answer questions like these as we explore companies from all over the world that use PTC products for building equipment that’s massive.
Let’s start in Spain, with a company whose conveyor systems are found all over the world.
Maquiaridos specializes in manufacturing conveyor belts for the mining industry, transporting tons of heavy materials from the mine to crusher to stockpile.
Like many companies in big machinery, Maquiaridos has to create products flexible enough to meet diverse customer needs. Clearly, every mine setup is unique, so no one solution fits every job, or even more than one job.
Not wishing to design each product from scratch, Maquiaridos developed a modular system for its conveyor belts so that its solutions are “totally versatile and functional and allows [Maquiaridos] to equip customers with a whole range of accessories.”
Head and tail sections of a conveyor designed in PTC Creo
Using modular design enables design re-use, lowest cost, and helps drives competitive pricing
Your custom conveyor system can come with walkways, top covers, side protection, and more. And, amazingly, everything can be assembled using just nuts and bolts, so there’s no need for welding out in the field.
All that takes a bit of engineering, as you might guess. From the company website:
Our Engineering department calculates everything from motor power to belt width, as well as parameters such as speed, slope, belt type, etc., to make our conveyor belts more operational, safe, and useful inside any material treating and processing system.
To ensure all that engineering doesn’t delay projects unnecessarily, the company decided to select the best CAD tool for its needs. Maquiaridos evaluated various 3D design software tools. The result? The company selected PTC Creo because of the ease with which engineers can work with large assemblies using the software.
The decision paid off. By using PTC Creo, engineers found that they were producing fewer errors and designing more efficiently. In fact, they say they can produce new designs 50% faster than before.
Flexible hinges enable full customization of conveyor systems
And as the software simplifies engineering designs, the team says they can create more sophisticated solutions.
“We have streamlined the process of designing parts and assemblies,” says Álvaro Pozo. “This allows us to increase design complexity while reducing errors in manufacturing.”
And according to Mark Edward, one of Maquiaridos’ clients in Australia: “They’ve put a lot of smart engineering into the design of their equipment. They come in modules and flat pack into containers. Typical systems are designed and assembled using modules from 1m to 12m in length, so they all fit in a 40 foot container. They get pre-assembled, pre-commissioned and then flat packed and sent to site. They use European quality components: SEW gear boxes and motors, Sandvik rollers and belt cleaners, Schneider Electric switching, belts are Dunlop and Continental – so they don’t cut any corners.”
Here’s an example of an animated conveyor belt in PTC Creo
In coming weeks we’ll introduce more companies that are building big with PTC Creo, including a company that makes equipment for brickyards and another that says it provided much of the muscle that helped give rise to China’s spectacular economic development.
- See more at: http://creo.ptc.com/2014/06/12/building-big-maquiaridos-delivers-for-the-mining-industry/#sthash.lF28LHqs.dpuf
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Campbell to discuss PTC Creo 3.0 at PTC Live Global
Campbell to discuss PTC Creo 3.0 at PTC Live Global
Attendees of next month’s PTC Live Global in Boston will get see how PTC technologies like the soon-to-be-released PTC Creo 3.0 will help companies design great products.
PTC Live Global, one of the biggest CAD industry events of the year, is being held Sunday–Wednesday, June 15-18. On Tuesday June 17th, Michael Campbell, the Executive Vice President of the CAD segment at PTC, will take to the stage with Brian Shepherd, Executive Vice President of Enterprise Segments at PTC, to explain how PTC Creo 3.0 will help companies continually evolve their product development efforts in an increasingly interconnected world.
Campbell and Shepherd will be joined by representatives of from industry leading PTC customers like Raytheon, Daktronics, and Toyota. Here’s a preview of what to expect when Campbell and Shepherd take the stage:
While PTC can’t reveal too many details about the anxiously awaited PTC Creo 3.0, attendees of last year’s PTC Live Global heard how the upcoming release will focus heavily on helping users be successful in multi-CAD computing environments.
“As you’ve seen, a lot of multi-CAD capabilities already exist today,” Campbell told the audience at last year’s PTC Live Global. “But [PTC Creo 3.0] will fully deliver on this promise of any data adoption. Right out of the box with [PTC Creo 3.0], at no additional charge, you’ll be able to use native files from all of the different major CAD systems.”
Just imagine the time that will save. To hear the rest of Campbell’s comments from last year’s PTC Live global, be sure to watch this video:
Visit our PTC Live Global event page for more information about Campbell’s keynote address and other sessions. And be sure to read this list of “Ten Things to Look Forward to at PTC Live Global.”
- See more at: http://creo.ptc.com/2014/05/28/campbell-to-discuss-ptc-creo-3-0-at-ptc-live-global/#sthash.xYzk119Z.dpuf
Friday, April 25, 2014
R&D Results “More Reliable” with PTC Creo and PTC Windchill
You may already know that China consumes more petroleum than it extracts from within its own borders. In fact, in fall 2013, the country became the world’s largest importer of crude, surpassing US numbers for the first time ever.
What might surprise you is that the country is a significant producer of oil too. Until the 1990s, China was a global exporter of the fossil fuel. And today, it remains one of the top 5 producers in the world, generating more than 4 million barrels a day.
With all that extraction activity comes demand for specialized oil well products—liner hangers, stage collars, cementing heads, expandable profiled pipe, etc. Each in a variety of sizes, lengths, pressure ratings, and weights.
Click on the Image to see a Line Hanger Animation
For the past 30 years Shelfoil Petroleum Equipment & Services has engineered and manufactured those downhole tools from its facilities in Dezhou, in the eastern province of Shandong. Today, the company is the industry leader and supplies most Chinese onshore and offshore oilfields. Plus, it exports its products to 30 countries worldwide—including the US, Canada, and Russia.
Shelfoil Products
How does it keep track of all those products and variants? Since 2008, Shelfoil has enlisted PTC solutions. The company uses PTC Windchill PDMLink and PTC Creo for its product development environment, including design, data management, and collaboration.
PTC Windchill PDMLink is a web-based product data management repository, so it can easily track product models and drawings, their variants, and old revisions. Moreover, team members anywhere can access the information easily. Best of all, it prevents expensive design errors by controlling and automating the typically chaotic product development processes—for example, by adding change management.
The data management software works seamlessly with PTC Creo Parametric, as well as PTC Creo Direct and PTC Creo View MCAD. As such, designs can be quickly retrieved, edited, reviewed, vaulted, and revisioned all from within the CAD tools.
The result?
The company reports that production costs have gone down and product data is more effectively managed. With the solution, it’s easier to solve modeling problems and check for interferences, even for non-CAD experts.
“PTC integrated solutions provide a reliable guarantee for our R&D,” says Jiang Xiangdong, general manager.
Ed – by deploying both CAD and PDM, PTC customers are gaining significant advantage in product development – want to know more? Explore and share our growing collection of customer stories.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Making the Machines That Make the Machines at DMG MORI with PTC Creo
When you talk to Michael Trenkle, mechanical engineer, about his automatic tool changer design, it’s easy to lose yourself in the details. He’ll tell you about speed and accuracy down to the micron, and about how he ensures his subassembly interfaces with others in this 5000-part 3D model. He’ll describe the challenges of laying out piping and cabling for the oil, coolants, and the pneumatic air that runs through the system. All of it is fascinating from a design and engineering perspective.
But while Trenkle sweats the small stuff, in another country, someone is waiting for the finished machine. That someone has contracts with robotics, automotive, and agricultural machinery companies, and a reputation for precision to uphold. That someone supports employees, a busy shop floor, and even apprentices from the local community.
Our customer documentary videos want illustrate how the careful design pays off in the bigger picture. Because, nobody in product development is an island. We’re all part of a larger supply chain, whether we’re the customer, the software vendor, the OEM, or the subcontractor’s subcontractor.
In our latest customer video, we take you to the company where Trenkle works, DMG MORI, a global manufacturer of machine tools, turning centers, lathes, ultrasonic and laser machines.
The video also takes you across borders, from Germany to Austria where Metalltechnik Vils, a family company, machines precision parts for brand names like Bosch, Georg Fischer, Trumpf, Swarowksi, and others—using equipment from DMG MORI.
Where does PTC Creo fit in? We’re the software DMG MORI uses to build the machines…that build the machines… that build the machines. They say they’re faster and create better products using the software.
“By using PTC Creo, skeleton models, layouts, parametric family of parts, simulation and cabling features, we quickly create detailed models from concepts and ensure we minimize any need for physical prototyping,” says Trenkle. “We are more flexible in what ideas we explore.”
For example, with PTC Creo Simulate, engineers optimized DMG MORI’s latest duoBLOCK® design for dynamic and static masses.
“We reduced the dynamic mass (mass of moving parts) by 50% and increased the static mass. This results in higher stability, long-term precision and lower overall energy usage,” says design team lead Roland Köchl.
And with PTC Creo View MCAD, the engineering team no longer needs to create 2D technical drawings. “There’s no need for them,” says Reinhard Musch, head of manufacturing for DECKEL MAHO. “The 3D model is significantly easier for teams to understand, is precise, and can be directly used for manufacturing – it’s very efficient.”
But now we’re getting into the details again, aren’t we?
See inside both companies, and see PTC Creo at work, in the new video:
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Constructing Solutions for Structural Design
structures
serve their purpose without much fanfare. In addition to the basic
building materials, there is so much more that goes into the design and
analysis. For civil and structural engineers, PTC Mathcad
offers a number of solutions and time-saving capabilities. Whether you
are designing bridges, dams, columns, trusses…etc, calculations and
analysis are crucial to the process. PTC now offers many pre-built worksheets to help with computations for different structural designs!These worksheets solve typical problems encountered in the structural design of buildings. Each application includes a description of the problem, a description of the application, one or more sketches, an input section, a list of computed variables, and a section for calculations. Most of the applications have a summary section which list all input and computed variables.
Beams are the main support for most structures. When working with the analysis of beams, there are some in-depth worksheets that offer templates. Specifically, the Beams with Uniform Load and End Moments worksheet that helps you calculate the maximum positive bending moment, the maximum deflection, and the points of inflection for a beam with a uniformly distributed load and applied end moments.
There are other worksheets that calculate the beam size in order to satisfy regulatory
requirements. Here is one example for concrete beams. This
application determines the sizes of rectangular beams to satisfy the
flexural requirements, shear requirements and minimum thickness limits
of ACI 318-89. Being able to plug in calculations that assist with the
design while satisfying requirements is a huge time-saver.Structural engineering also has to take wind, natural disasters, and other elements into account when coming up with designs. PTC has worksheets that assist in calculating the wind and seismic conditions on buildings. Wind Loads Using ASCE Standard 7-93 computes the wind pressures on the windward wall, leeward wall, side walls and roof, and the net wind pressures and loads at specified height intervals, for a square or rectangular building
with a flat roof.These are just a few examples of worksheets available in the “Building Structural Design” library. Next time you are passing over a bridge or walking into a high-rise, stop for a minute and admire the calculations that went into creating that structure, and remember that PTC Mathcad is at the heart of buildings and structures around the world.
Usually when driving across a bridge or walking into a building, you don’t stop to think about the engineering ingenuity that went into creating that structure. The Golden Gate Bridge gets a lot of publicity and La Sagrada Familia is a stunning piece of art, but most structures serve their purpose without much fanfare. In addition to the basic building materials, there is so much more that goes into the design and analysis. For civil and structural engineers, PTC Mathcadoffers a number of solutions and time-saving capabilities. Whether you are designing bridges, dams, columns, trusses…etc, calculations and analysis are crucial to the process. PTC now offers many pre-built worksheets to help with computations for different structural designs!
These worksheets solve typical problems encountered in the structural design of buildings. Each application includes a description of the problem, a description of the application, one or more sketches, an input section, a list of computed variables, and a section for calculations. Most of the applications have a summary section which list all input and computed variables.
Beams are the main support for most structures. When working with the analysis of beams, there are some in-depth worksheets that offer templates. Specifically, the Beams with Uniform Load and End Moments worksheet that helps you calculate the maximum positive bending moment, the maximum deflection, and the points of inflection for a beam with a uniformly distributed load and applied end moments.
There are other worksheets that calculate the beam size in order to satisfy regulatory requirements. Here is one example for concrete beams. This application determines the sizes of rectangular beams to satisfy the flexural requirements, shear requirements and minimum thickness limits of ACI 318-89. Being able to plug in calculations that assist with the design while satisfying requirements is a huge time-saver.Structural engineering also has to take wind, natural disasters, and other elements into account when coming up with designs. PTC has worksheets that assist in calculating the wind and seismic conditions on buildings. Wind Loads Using ASCE Standard 7-93 computes the wind pressures on the windward wall, leeward wall, side walls and roof, and the net wind pressures and loads at specified height intervals, for a square or rectangular building with a flat roof.
These are just a few examples of worksheets available in the “Building Structural Design” library. Next time you are passing over a bridge or walking into a high-rise, stop for a minute and admire the calculations that went into creating that structure, and remember that PTC Mathcad is at the heart of buildings and structures around the world.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
New Survey: Review Processes and Design Validation
Design review and validation cycles are key to making successful products. That’s why PTC wants to know more about how well this design phase works for you—whether you have a formal review process or not.
In this 15-minute survey, we ask questions about who participates on your review team, how you communicate with them, and how smoothly they communicate with you.
Share your thoughts with us: Start the survey now!
While PTC benefits by uncovering the latest trends in industry, you can benefit by participating in this survey too:
- Five randomly drawn participants win a Microsoft Surface tablet.*
- All participants receive a copy of the summarized overall results—so you also find out how current attitudes and trends shape design review and validation.**
*Complete the survey by February 23, 2014 to be included in the drawing. The drawing will be held on February 26, 2014, and winners will be notified by email. (Here’s the the official sweepstake rules)
**Individual data is never disclosed. We only publish collated responses.
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Continuous Innovation for Global Markets- Ingersoll Rand
Customer Story: Ingersoll Rand
Hear how Ingersoll Rand accelerates product innovation for world markets by connecting globally distributed product development teams.
About Ingersoll Rand
Ingersoll Rand is a diversified industrial manufacturer with market-leading brands serving customers in global commercial, industrial, and residential markets. As a company that values innovation and enables their people to achieve great success, Ingersoll Rand helps improve quality of life and the health of the environment around the world.
Ingersoll Rand: Growth through Innovation
Ingersoll Rand executives talk about the company’s strategic initiatives to accelerate product innovation to create and deliver value to customers.
Ingersoll Rand: A World Class Product Development System
Learn more about how Ingersoll Rand’s common approach to PLM supports their commitment to engineering excellence.
Ingersoll Rand: Creating Customer Value through Software
Discover the critical role of software in Ingersoll Rand products and how it is used to create sustainable solutions for their customers.
Ingersoll Rand: An Integrated Solution for Requirements Capture
Ingersoll Rand’s VP of Controls Engineering discusses how managing requirements, with traceability, throughout the product development process is the key to ensuring high product quality and meeting customer needs.
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