Showing posts with label ptc. Show all posts
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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, 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:
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.
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