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News Release from: Trionics | Subject: Autodesk Invento
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 31 October 2006
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Extec Screens and Crushers has purchased 13 seats of Autodesk Inventor Professional from Autodesk Value-Added Reseller, Trionics, as it looks to cut design times in an increasingly competitive market.
Leading global developer and manufacturer of mobile screening and crushing technology, Extec Screens and Crushers (Extec), has purchased 13 seats of Autodesk Inventor Professional from Autodesk Value-Added Reseller, Trionics, as it looks to cut design times in an increasingly competitive market Extec, which won the Queen's Award for Export in 2005, supplies a wide range of mobile crushers, screens and shredders to the quarry, mineral extraction and increasingly important recycling industries
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 17 Feb 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"These are typically highly complex designs of up to 10,000 parts," says senior design engineer, Matthew Cox.
"As a result, we needed a flexible, sophisticated 3D modeling solution which would enable us to improve customer responsiveness".
The company already had positive experience of working with Trionics and AutoCAD and the move to specialist 3D solid modeling with Inventor was, says Cox, a natural progression.
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"We looked at what the market had to offer and selected Inventor, as it offered both relevant functionality and an easy transition from our existing design software," he confirms.
One of the key benefits of Inventor has been its ability to integrate with other parts of Extec's IT infrastructure, extending the benefits of design automation to other parts of the business.
By linking through third party software to the company's existing accounting package, for example, Inventor enables the rapid creation of a detailed bill of materials from the design drawings, benefiting the manufacturing, purchasing and finance departments.
Again utilising third party software, the production team also gains from Inventor's ability to provide data to the plasma machines, in order to accurately cut steel shapes as part of the manufacturing process.
"With Inventor, Extec's designers can create a representative model very early on in the process and make design changes quickly and easily," says Trionics' joint managing director, John Pickering.
"This means that, from the outset of each project, members of the production team who may not have specialist design expertise can play an effective role in product development".
Extec has been delighted with the high quality technical training and consultancy support provided by Trionics which, say Cox, "has been both responsive and proactive, creating the foundation for a strong working relationship".
"At the same time, Inventor enables us to get highly complex designs right first time and so reduce time to market - essential to maintaining competitive edge in an aggressively competitive industry".
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