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Precast concrete Pits Configurator

Project Overview

Date

05-01-2023

Customer Profile

Precast concrete Pits manufacturer

Location

Australia

Industry

Precast Concrete

Categories

Product Configurator

Input

Existing SolidEdge Model, Drawing, Calculations etc.

Output

DriveWorks Configurator With 2D image Preview, Manufacturing Drawing, Email.

Software

DriveWorks, SolidWorks

Software we Used

Client

The Australia’s leading precast concrete pit manufacturer develops and delivers high performing, durable precast concrete pits that suit a range of civil applications.They are committed to providing highly durable concrete stormwater pits that are readily available and suitable for many different applications. It also manufactures custom-sized pits with knockouts and penetrations inserted where required. Their standard concrete pits are available in various sizes to suit most applications, with lifting points cast in to allow quick, safe on-site installation.

Client’s Needs

• Develop and set up efficient product configurator for precast concrete pits.
• Standardize the project.
• Reduction of lead time in generating sales drawing files.
• Visualization of the precast concrete pits.

Challenges

  • 3D visualization of the precast concrete pits.

  • Corner voids on pits are on angle at each corner and both side of faces.

  • Control and drive 200+ dimensions on the drawings.

  • Difficult to maintain the master model for all the repetitive orders with different configuration and changing process.

  • On time delivery of the product.

Solution

  • Initially when clients contact the Design and Automation services Team, our experts examine the process flow of manufacturing & generation procedure they were using and understand their future ideas about what they want.

  • Based on in-depth knowledge of design cycle automation by elimination of repetitive tasks and extensive industry experience, we suggest implementing DriveWorks Pro which diminished the client’s response time.

  • Design and Automation Services develops an efficient configurator which includes tasks from precast concrete pit modelling to generation of sales drawings which results in an increase in the company’s productivity.

  • Initial assessment of Automation engineers examines the existing modelling of the precast concrete pits and all features on each face.

  • Master models and drawings were developed according to design knowledge of automation.

  • Later, all design features were captured to automate, and logical rules were used to customize the models and drawings using configurator inputs.

  • Based on configurator inputs, custom models and drawings are generated with accuracy which leads to an increase in productivity.

  • A separate UI for corner voids was provided so the user can easily be able to give dimensions and angles of the pipe.

  • 2D visualization with Images in the form of 3D visualization, due to which user can see the feature and exact dimensions.

  • Users can detect the clash on the preview which helps to modify the dimensions and features.

  • Benefits of Using Configurator

  • Implementation of DriveWorks configurator ensured significant reduction of repetitive tasks.

  • Complex models and drawings generated with enhanced quality eliminating human errors.

  • Dependency on the design engineers is reduced.

  • Clash detection of the features.

  • A major benefit of the configurator was the delivery time of the products within the 1 to 2 minutes from 3 to 4 hours.

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