Dixon Valve & Coupling Optimizes Manufacturing with SOLIDWORKS and Xometry

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Are you constantly looking for ways to improve your productivity and processes?  SOLIDWORKS and its partners strive to provide you with the tools you need to do your job as efficiently as possible.

Let’s take a look at Dixon Valve & Coupling and see how they utilize SOLIDWORKS and the Xometry add-in to help its automation team realize its cost efficiency goals.

For over 100 years, Dixon Valve & Coupling has manufactured and supplied hose couplings, valves, dry-disconnects, swivels, and other fluid-transfer and control products.  The worldwide company, with a broad reach of industries including transportation and construction, created a strategic objective of developing solutions that make its products safer, leak-free, longer lasting, and always available.  In order to continually focus on that objective, Dixon formed an in-house automation team to automate production where justified.

The Dixon automation team relies on the SOLIDWORKS® ecosystem, which the company has used for 20 years. Recently, Dixon added the free Xometry add-in to SOLIDWORKS software to support quoting, feedback, and ordering of manufacturing services from directly within the SOLIDWORKS CAD environment.

With the Xometry add-in, Dixon’s automation team is able to answer those tough questions like “What is the optimal manufacturing solution?” or “What will this change cost?”  With this add-in, it has 24/7 access to production pricing and ordering information inside SOLIDWORKS, and a way to obtain feedback about determining the best way to manufacture a part.

According to Industrial Engineer J.R. Everett, “We were able to get a quote, place the order, and receive the part in a couple days—all without leaving SOLIDWORKS.”

To learn more about how Dixon Valve & Coupling is creating better design and cutting costs with SOLIDWORKS Solutions in conjunction with the Xometry add-in functions, Click Here.

Josie Morales

Josie Morales

Josie connects with SOLIDWORKS users every day to help them share their cool and ground breaking design stories. When not speaking to users, she's binge watching everything.