{"id":35936,"date":"2017-11-08T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=35936"},"modified":"2017-11-08T09:09:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:09:15","slug":"dixon-valve-coupling-optimizes-manufacturing-solidworks-xometry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2017\/11\/dixon-valve-coupling-optimizes-manufacturing-solidworks-xometry.html","title":{"rendered":"Dixon Valve & Coupling Optimizes Manufacturing with SOLIDWORKS and Xometry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Are you constantly looking for ways to improve your productivity and processes?\u00a0 SOLIDWORKS and its partners strive to provide you with the tools you need to do your job as efficiently as possible.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a look at Dixon Valve & Coupling<\/a><\/strong> and see how they utilize SOLIDWORKS and the Xometry<\/a><\/strong> add-in to help its automation team realize its cost efficiency goals.<\/p>\n

For over 100 years, Dixon Valve & Coupling<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has manufactured and supplied hose couplings, valves, dry-disconnects, swivels, and other fluid-transfer and control products.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 In order to continually focus on that objective, Dixon formed an in-house automation team to automate production where justified.<\/p>\n

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The Dixon automation team relies on the SOLIDWORKS\u00ae ecosystem<\/a><\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n

With the Xometry<\/a><\/strong> add-in, Dixon\u2019s automation team is able to answer those tough questions like \u201cWhat is the optimal manufacturing solution?\u201d or \u201cWhat will this change cost?\u201d\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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According to Industrial Engineer J.R. Everett, \u201cWe were able to get a quote, place the order, and receive the part in a couple days\u2014all without leaving SOLIDWORKS.\u201d<\/p>\n

To learn more about how Dixon Valve & Coupling<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is creating better design and cutting costs with SOLIDWORKS Solutions<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in conjunction with the Xometry<\/a><\/strong> add-in functions,\u00a0Click Here<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Find out how SOLIDWORKS and Xometry allowed Dixon Valve & Coupling to reduce production cost and shortened production time from weeks to days.<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":35935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,159,18],"tags":[1456,2681,19,2682],"class_list":["post-35936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-stories","category-partners","category-solidworks","tag-case-study","tag-dixon-valve-coupling","tag-solidworks-2","tag-xometry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35936","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\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}