{"id":50039,"date":"2022-06-24T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=50039"},"modified":"2022-06-20T16:00:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T20:00:03","slug":"mp-agro-reduces-development-costs-50-percent-with-3dexperience-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2022\/06\/mp-agro-reduces-development-costs-50-percent-with-3dexperience-works.html","title":{"rendered":"MP Agro Reduces Development Costs 50 Percent with 3DEXPERIENCE Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

Founded in 2012, MP Agro M\u00e1quinas Agr\u00edcolas makes agricultural equipment more efficient, productive, and reliable in the field. In just 10 years, the company has become the leading manufacturer of fertilizer dispensers and spreaders in the Brazilian market.<\/p>\n

Although MP Agro was successful, it needed to make its development cycles more efficient, cost-effective, and accurate to support a more aggressive R&D effort. \u201cWe had a lot of problems related to revision control with our previous product data management (PDM) system,\u201d Engineering Supervisor Willian Sartori explains. \u201cWe were spending a lot of time and money on reworking designs due to people working with the wrong revision or overwriting someone else\u2019s work.\u201d<\/p>\n

MP Agro also struggled with manually managing product data because its PDM system was not integrated with SOLIDWORKS\u00ae<\/a>. The tide turned when the company implemented automated management of SOLIDWORKS design data using cloud-based 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE\u00ae Works<\/a> solutions.<\/p>\n

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Cultivating Research and Development<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since implementing 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE Works solutions, MP Agro has cut its development cycles in half and decreased development costs by 50 percent because 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE Works solutions have enabled the company to tighten revision controls and eliminate revision errors, which had occurred frequently. \u201cOur problems \u2026 had more to do with having five people working on the same project and either using the wrong revision or overwriting the right revision,\u201d Sartori recounts.<\/p>\n

Because data management solutions on the 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE platform make MP Agro more efficient and productive, the company is more able to focus on R&D. For example, increased collaboration and innovation facilitated by the 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE platform led to the development of Bunker, a new insecticide sprayer filling system that reduces the time required to reload a sprayer from an hour to a few minutes.<\/p>\n

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Fortifying Simulation<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAs our R&D effort continues to grow and intensify, and our products become more sophisticated, we\u2019ll be adding [SIMULIA\u2019s] Structural Performance Engineer to expand the types of analyses that we can conduct,\u201d Sartori says. \u201cOur quality has always been good, but with access to SIMULIA\u2019s analysis capabilities, we anticipate further reductions in the amount of product prototyping required, helping us to reduce development costs even more.\u201d Structural Performance Engineer enables the ability to run advanced simulations on the cloud, freeing up local computing resources to maximize productivity.<\/p>\n

You can read the entire MP Agro case study here<\/strong><\/a>. If you have further questions about how 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE Works and SOLIDWORKS can cut your product development cycles and costs, please contact your local reseller<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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MP Agro eliminates revision errors, increases collaboration and innovation, and reduces development costs with 3DEXPERIENCE Works product development solutions and SOLIDWORKS software.<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":50038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2933,3285,563,50,26,826,14,2955,18],"tags":[3041,3125,66,276,153,1525,19],"class_list":["post-50039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3dexperience","category-3dexperienceworks","category-cloud-computing","category-collaboration","category-customer-stories","category-dassault-systmes","category-design","category-simuliaworks","category-solidworks","tag-3dexperience-works","tag-cloud-computing","tag-fea","tag-pdm","tag-simulation","tag-simulia","tag-solidworks-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50039","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=50039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50041,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50039\/revisions\/50041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}