Using Autodesk® Inventor® Professional software, DEW creates 3D designs and ties them to product life-cycle support deliverables, including training materials, user manuals, and other publications. As a result of adopting Autodesk Inventor, DEW has been able to speed up its design cycle, reduce errors, and enhance control over its design process. The company has also achieved significant benefits by deploying Autodesk® Vault software. With Vault, DEW’s engineers, designers, and illustrators can now collaborate on design work without risking version problems and other errors that can result from ineffective design work-in-progress management. To produce electrical schematics, DEW uses AutoCAD® Electrical software. Thanks to its Autodesk manufacturing solution, DEW has been able to:

• Reduce prototype development time by 50 percent
• Cut data management time by nearly 85 percent
• Produce all product life-cycle deliverables from a single model
• Secure one of the first ISO 9001:2000 certifications for the development and publishing of electronic technical publications.

At the core of Valiant’s innovative designs are Autodesk® Inventor® Professional software and Autodesk® Algor® Simulation software, which enable Valiant to more quickly assess whether a new idea is a dead end or a promising beginning. With help from Autodesk Inventor software and Autodesk Algor Simulation software, Valiant has been able to:

• Develop a groundbreaking portable cargo loader for Boeing
• Communicate novel ideas with animated 3D models, impressing customers
• Reduce errors and design time by conducting mechanical simulations in-house

• Improved communication of design ideas.
• Expedited revisions on completed models.
• High end visualization of finished design.
• Traceable interferences for early resolution of problems.
• User Friendly; Simplified design management, easier to make changes at any stage.
• Drawing sheets and tags are easily coordinated.

Since moving from 2D to 3D, Bosch Rexroth Canada won a lucrative 5-year contract, and is now completing projects in half the time, with greater detail.

Using Autodesk Inventor, Rexroth is designing hydraulic systems for the canal in 3D, and as a result, the company is seeing dramatic reductions in design times and drawing errors. The company has been able to pass these savings on to the Seaway in the form of improved on-time deliveries and timely responses to design changes. To streamline reviews, Rexroth’s customers leverage the free Autodesk® Design Review to view, review and mark up designs. Changes are tracked and can be easily transferred into the original design by the designer.

Samco’s electrical engineers are now fully able to forge benchmarks for line speeds, productivity outputs and Rapid Change Automation. “The feedback from our engineers is amazing. They are now 30% faster in their work, and the reporting capabilities and ease of use have translated into huge cost-savings to our department,” said Theoulis. “In fact, since the implementation, I have had to reconfigure time estimates. The team now turnaround projects far more quickly.”

 Wheelabrator Group uses an Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping to design airblast and peening equipment.

Wheelabrator Group excels at this type of collaboration. Its technology center in Ontario, Canada, uses Autodesk® Inventor® Professional, AutoCAD® Mechanical, AutoCAD® Electrical, and Autodesk® Vault Manufacturing software to deliver innovative new products to its customers. At its parts center in Georgia, this Autodesk solution helps manage a library of more than 150,000 designs.
The benefits are many:

• Digital Prototyping and design reuse shortens development time by 20 percent.
• Extensive libraries of 2D data are easily integrated into 3D designs.
• Customers receive real-time support on replacement parts.
• Repetitive tasks are automated, supporting overall innovation.

• Inventor is a superior Design Visualization Tool – enabling users to observe complex geometry & how parts are designed to be assembled right from your screen.
• Ability to detect interference and design moving components.
• With Inventor, Engineering was able to provide the shop with fully rendered 3D model drawings to help illustrate the assembly process – simplifying & improving communications to the shop floor, while reducing manufacturing errors.
• Allowed them to provide to their customers with 3D DWF files of 3-dimensional work-in-progress for collaboration & feedback

• Compatibility and Interoperability of design data between AutoCAD & Inventor.
• Significant reduction the overall time spent on design, documentation, manuals, weight calculations and bill of materials.
• Ability to produce high-quality renderings in minutes using Inventor.
• Communication improvements & increased quality of designs & documentation. 
• Reduction in errors throughout entire design process.

In the food processing manufacturing industry where creating quality equipment that is user friendly and cost effective is critical to operations, ABI is now able to fully utilize the latest design tools and production technology to deliver its innovative products.

• Much better information can be provided to the client and the increase in quality of information can be provided very cost effectively.
• Improved communication with the design team.
• Produce accurate, well detailed construction documents.
• Identify potential interferences between disciplines prior to the construction phase.
• Ability to provide high quality digital presentations from static images to rendered video.
• Direct output to 3D model making equipment allows for direct digital conversion to physical 3D models.