{"id":255,"date":"2012-06-04T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/solidworks-helps-jugs-sports-reduce-development-time-by-50"},"modified":"2013-07-22T16:09:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T16:09:24","slug":"solidworks-helps-jugs-sports-reduce-development-time-by-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2012\/06\/solidworks-helps-jugs-sports-reduce-development-time-by-50.html","title":{"rendered":"JUGS Sports reduces development time by 50% using SolidWorks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20163061ceabe970d.jpg\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JUGS Close Up\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20163061ceabe970d\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20163061ceabe970d-120wi.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"JUGS Close Up\" \/><\/a>You may recall that last year, Jeremy Luchini designed a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/btd\/web-series\/lets-go-design-multisport-cage.htm?scid=sm_bl_JUGS\" target=\"_self\"> prototype for a multi-sport practice cage<\/a> as one of his Let&#39;s Go Design projects. An item that featured prominently in that project was a football launcher, made by SolidWorks customer <a href=\"https:\/\/jugssports.com\/\" target=\"_self\">JUGS Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>JUGS Sports is the world\u2019s leading producer of baseball-pitching  machines, softball-pitching machines, batting cages, radar guns, and  other sports-related practice equipment. The company has expanded into  the development of ball-throwing systems for football, soccer, tennis,  field hockey, and cricket. To respond to increasing competition, they needed a 3D design system that would enable it to  efficiently expand its product line and introduce innovative concepts.<\/p>\n<p>The company chose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/products\/10155_ENU_HTML.htm?scid=sm_bl_JUGS\" target=\"_self\">SolidWorks\u00ae Professional<\/a> software to jumpstart new  product development because it&#39;s easy to use and helps the company  visualize and interrogate new design concepts. By selecting SolidWorks  solutions, JUGS Sports reduced its development time by 50 percent, cut  the time from design to prototype in half, expanded its product line to  capture the youth market, and increased product innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The folks at JUGS were nice enough to work with us on a case study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/successes\/customer-story.htm?record=JUGS-Sports-Inc&amp;id=4614&amp;scid=sm_bl_JUGS\" target=\"_self\">which you can find on our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"www.solidworks.com\/sw\/successes\/customer-story.htm?record=JUGS-Sports-Inc&amp;id=4614&amp;scid=sm_bl_JUGS\" style=\"display: inline;\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JUGS Launcher\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20163061ce8cb970d image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20163061ce8cb970d-800wi.jpg\" title=\"JUGS Launcher\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall that last year, Jeremy Luchini designed a prototype for a multi-sport practice cage as one of his Let&#39;s Go Design projects. An item that featured prominently in that project was a football launcher, made by SolidWorks customer<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2012\/06\/solidworks-helps-jugs-sports-reduce-development-time-by-50.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-stories","category-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}