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<\/a>Although many of The Outdoor Group\u2019s products were originally developed using hand drawings, design engineer Dan Kelly has found that 3D design, engineering and manufacturing solutions have allowed the company to seamlessly achieve its goals as a top-of-the-line archery brand. \u201cOur challenge was not only to take great products and make them better, but also to streamline design and manufacturing to introduce innovative, high-quality products efficiently and cost-effectively,\u201d Lead Engineer Mike Derus stresses. \u201cWe believe that SOLIDWORKS provides the best set of integrated tools for overcoming that challenge.\u201d<\/p>\nBy implementing SOLIDWORKS, The Outdoor Group has cut waste to reduce design cycles by as much as 50 percent while simultaneously introducing Elite bow models that have raised the bar for bow quality. The reduction in design cycles combined with a superior product and inspiring marketing efforts has raised their annual revenue by over 30 percent. The Outdoor Group has raised the bar for straight-shooters everywhere. The company truly lives and breathes Elite Archery\u2019s motto, \u201cspeed without compromise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Check out the full case study here <\/a><\/strong>to find out more about how The Outdoor Group utilized SOLIDWORKS to create higher quality products while cutting down production time.<\/p>\n Click the banner to learn\u00a0how designing in SOLIDWORKS is easy, builds intelligence into your projects, and allows you to collaborate and communicate with your customers.<\/p>\n Last month I blogged about fresh fruit season. Continuing on that trend, July is time for summer camp where many kids try their hands at new sports, like archery. It\u2019s open season for The Outdoor Group LLC, and with help<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":22381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14,18],"tags":[40,41,453,19],"class_list":["post-22378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-stories","category-design","category-solidworks","tag-3d-cad","tag-3d-design","tag-customers","tag-solidworks-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"