{"id":43581,"date":"2020-02-28T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=43581"},"modified":"2020-02-25T11:09:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T16:09:07","slug":"faster-product-development-cycle-times-with-solidworks-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2020\/02\/faster-product-development-cycle-times-with-solidworks-solutions.html","title":{"rendered":"Faster Product Development Cycle Times with SOLIDWORKS Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/martin20brown20-20auger20aerial202-scaled.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since 1977 CP Manufacturing has established itself as the world leader in manufacturing advanced systems and equipment for the recycling and waste industries, including the design, building, and installation of hundreds of waste recycling facilities and related material separation machinery and equipment worldwide, including the design of the first aluminum-can flatteners and densifiers.<\/p>\n<p>As a leading innovator, CP Manufacturing is known for its superior engineering and technology. As demand for CP\u2019s custom-engineered plants and equipment continues to grow, the need to streamline processes, increase throughput, and expand product development has become critically important for supporting rapid, ongoing growth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supporting Rapid Growth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CP Manufacturing\u2019s initial migration from 2D to SOLIDWORKS 3D design resulted in 200 percent faster development cycles. CP\u2019s implementation of SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional and automation achieved via SOLIDWORKS\u2019 Application Programming Interface (API) produced 400 percent faster development cycles, helping support and sustain dramatic growth by the recycling systems manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>According to Engineering Manager Jason Kerns, \u201cWe\u2019ve had to move into a new facility that\u2019s three times as large, we doubled the size of our engineering department, and we dramatically increased product development throughput. With SOLIDWORKS integrated solutions, we\u2019ve been able to support rapid, sustainable growth without missing a beat, primarily because of our ability to automate sales, marketing, design, and production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/front20image-scaled.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Automating Processes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SOLIDWORKS PDM API has enabled CP Manufacturing to automate many of its product development and manufacturing workflows and tasks. CP has also integrated SOLIDWORKS PDM with its Epicor\u00ae enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, for example, to automatically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Create SOLIDWORKS models, associated visuals, and equipment lists from data in a sales layout<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Generate DXF\u00ae files to drive CP\u2019s laser cutters, press brakes, and water-jet cutters<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Notify electrical engineering whenever BOM changes require motor horsepower modifications<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Upload BOM information directly into CP\u2019s ERP system to drive preproduction planning without manual intervention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kerns notes, \u201cThe flexibility that we enjoy automating processes with the SOLIDWORKS API saves us a ton of time and money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kapost-files-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/kapost\/5bfdf710e787ce000400aa42\/studio\/content\/5d93a31bc320ed00040000f0\/html_bodies\/1582063331-a8c6f18f-70a6-4abd-98d4-fa51f12d8a1d\/Scott%20County5.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gaining a Competitive Edge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Using both SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional and SOLIDWORKS Composer\u2122 with the Demo3DVR virtual reality (VR) plug-in for SOLIDWORKS enables CP to create compelling photo-realistic visuals and immersive VR-based representations of the company\u2019s recycling facilities for customers and prospects.<\/p>\n<p>This gives CP a clear competitive edge: \u201cThe combination of all of our SOLIDWORKS visualization solutions really helps to set us apart,\u201d Kerns notes.<\/p>\n<p>To read more details about using SOLIDWORKS to support rapid, sustained growth, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/story\/cp-manufacturing-inc\">https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/story\/cp-manufacturing-inc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CP Manufacturing\u2019s initial migration from 2D to SOLIDWORKS 3D design resulted in 200 percent faster development cycles.<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2020\/02\/faster-product-development-cycle-times-with-solidworks-solutions.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":43576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14,2783,18,15,45,2411,89,2120],"tags":[441,19,2382,2316],"class_list":["post-43581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-stories","category-design","category-product-designers-and-mechanical-engineers","category-solidworks","category-solidworks-composer","category-solidworks-enterprise-pdm","category-solidworks-pdm","category-solidworks-premium","category-solidworks-visualize","tag-composer","tag-solidworks-2","tag-solidworks-pdm","tag-visualize"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43581","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}