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3DQUICKPRESS + SOLIDWORKS IN TOOLING INDUSTRIESBerkshire Manufactured Products, IncHIGH VALUE PRECISION STAMPING EMPOWERED BY ACCURATE DIE DESIGNBerkshire Manufactured Products, Inc. is aprecision metal stamping, machining and fabricationcompany serving aircraft engine, aerospace,communications, medical and other markets inNewburyport, MA. Berkshire today has 2 buildings and140 employees with exports to Asia, Australia,Europe, and Canada. Emphasizing “Capable,Integrated, Precise,” the company has been a primarysupplier to domestic & international aerospace and jetengine industries since 1958. In 2004, Berkshire wasnamed as one of the 24 companies in five NewEngland states to supply components to theAmerican-built US101 medium-lift helicopter, which isbetter know as “Marine One”. Applying leadingmanufacturing philosophies and being certified byAS9000, Berkshire delivers customers withcompetitive price and superb quality. Powerful CADtechnologies have been well practiced and have keptevolving; the company and the tool design teamcontinue to apply the latest CAD technologies toachieve competitive edge over competition.CHANGE IN TECHNOLOGIESBerkshire’s senior tool designer, Peter Meymarisjoined the tooling industry 30 years ago. Together withBerkshire, he went through the rapid change of tooldesign technologies from 1980. “I learnedmini-computer based CAD/CAM in 1981. My firstprogressive die design job was modeled all in minicomputer. It took me 6 weeks. The system clawed butluckily I finished the project. PTC later gave arevolution to this design industry by offering parametricapproach. After a decade, SolidWorks tuned up thisapproach to suit our need by offering a quick learningcurve and 3D power,” said Meymaris, “I also used todesign in Cadkey.The change from Cadkey toSolidWorks was a big one but this gave me a betterfoundation too. SolidWorks applies the latesttechnologies like parametric, configuration, andpowerful assembly utilities.Visualization and view management is very useful forme to debug in cases like a cam in a station.SolidWorks helps our company to take different jobsfrom companies using different CAD systems. Thequality of the built-in translators of SolidWorks is good.This is important to contract manufacturers like us.Most of our works come from aerospace with complexshape. For nearly 20% to 30% of our works we need touse 3DQuickForm,a companion product of3DQuickPress, to unfold. I can find the blank contourand the thinning within 5 minutes. More complex partscan take a few hours to unfold. I can directly apply theblank contour for the detail strip design. Theintegration of 3DQuickForm with 3DQuickPress makesit a pleasure to conduct the formability test right atevery complex forming station. Before weimplemented SolidWorks / 3DQuickPress designsystems, we had a lot of guess work plus our bags oftricks. It was slow and incurred uncertainties. WithSolidWorks / 3DQuickPress technologies, we canvisualize the design, and the problems. Our time isused to figure out the best layout strategy rather thanwasting it on the laborious work in modeling anddrafting. 3DQuickPress uses the best-in-class stripdesign approach. Two years ago, the companyintroduced deep draw calculator. This added theempirical approach to conventional finite elementmethod. Deep draw calculator is very practical formodeling symmetric parts. By combining bothanempirical method and finite element modeling,I have all the freedom to finish my job in time withaccuracy.”CONTRIBUTION OF TECHNICAL SUPPORTSuccessful implementation of SolidWorks /3DQuickPress involved much professional supportfrom Computer Aided Product and STS. “STS givesfast and reliable support in 3DQuickPress. Everyone inSTS has a very good attitude and they are greatpeople to work with,” said Meymaris. In order toappreciate the powerful SolidWorks / 3DQuickPresssoftware, Berkshire used a number of high endworkstations from DELL Computer. All of them areequipped with lot of memory, a fast graphicaccelerator, multi-core to achieve a good balance ofgraphics, CPU, memory and I/O. Meymaris shared hisrecord in achieving 290 designs in 230days as a resultof experienced die design, good hardware, plusproductive software like SolidWorks / 3DQuickPress.With more die makers implementing SolidWorks and3DQuickPress in Massachusetts, Meymaris can nowshare and exchange experience with other3DQuickPress users. Because of this Berkshire relieson authorized SolidWorks reseller Computer AidedProduct, Inc and Strategic Technology Solutions (STS)for ongoing software training, implementation, andsupport. For more than 45 years, Berkshire has built asuperior reputation for the manufacture of complexprecision stamping and machined components.Working with conventional metals, high temp alloys,titanium, kovar, plastics and other materials, Berkshiremanufactures production and prototype parts fordomestic and international markets in aircraft,aerospace, high tech, communications, medical andnumerous other industries.Die design of Berkshire Manufactured Products, Inc.With more die makers implementing SolidWorks and3DQuickPress in Massachusetts, Meymaris can nowshare and exchange experience with other3DQuickPress users. Because of this Berkshire relieson authorized SolidWorks reseller Computer AidedProduct, Inc and Strategic Technology Solutions (STS)for ongoing software training, implementation, andsupport. For more than 45 years, Berkshire has built asuperior reputation for the manufacture of complexprecision stamping and machined components.Working with conventional metals, high temp alloys,titanium, kovar, plastics and other materials, Berkshiremanufactures production and prototype parts fordomestic and international markets in aircraft,aerospace, high tech, communications, medical andnumerous other industries.10
3DQUICKPRESS + SOLIDWORKS IN TOOLING INDUSTRIESNara Mold & Die Co. Ltd.HIGH QUALITY, LOW COST AND ON TIME DELIVERY“ Auto parts industries demand very highprecision tooling and metal parts. Weintroduce 3DQuickPress in order to meet thisrequirement. ”Kim Jin-il,Research Engineer, Nara Mold & Die Co. Ltd.“Our production quality and time compression is improved much after weimplemented 3DQuickPress. In particular, we optimize the tool design inthe pre-production phase. Many try-outs and design errors are eliminated.We completed our full deployment of SolidWorks and 3DQuickPress thisyear. Our tool design in 3D can be evaluated to avoid manufacturingproblems in a virtual 3D environment. It simply speeds up our productionand reduces our costs,” said Mr. Kim Bo-whan. “Nara started to applyCAD/CAM technologies in 1984. Our company built up lots of experiencein selecting the right CAD/CAM systems, as well as applying them in ourunique production environment. Introducing 3DQuickPress to solve ourtool design problem is proven now. Using the right tools to improve ourproduction quality is the most straight forward approach,” emphasized byMr. Kim Bo-whan.introduce 3DQuickPress in order to meet this requirement. Nara hascustomers all over the world. They are inclined to 3D design than 2Dapproaches,” said Mr. Kim Bo-whan to elaborate the background of using3DQuickPress.Korean starts to apply 3Dtechnologies to facilitate themanufacture of metal toolingrecently. This trend isaccelerating to react for theincrease in projects comingin 3D formats nearly in allindustries ranging from autoparts, electronics, etc. It is anatural request from productmanufacturers to demandPress die of Nara.their tooling suppliers to usea compatible 3D system to communicate effectively that results a moreresponsive overall production process. 2D has been a standard for tooldesign in the past. It is a proven technology but inheriting thecharacteristics of tedious, complicated, and induced errors. To use 2Ddesign and drafting tools to describe a complex metal part is difficult. In thecontrary, 3D design tools yield 2D drawing output swiftly and naturally.Design errors in the die assemblies can be spotted out instantaneously.Users can do interference checking quickly in the virtual space.Customer visit to Nara in 2007.3D IS THE COMMON LANGUAGE“In tool design process, we are competing with time in seconds,” said Mr.Kim Jin-il. Before 3DQuickPress era, we rectified design errors only afterwe had finished our first try-out. It might require us to redo the tool designor die cutting in the worst cases. 3DQuickPress helps us to spot out errorsthree-dimensionally. The ultimate benefits bring us higher production rateat better quality,” said Mr. Kim Jin-il, senior die designer. “Auto partsindustries demand very high precision tooling and metal parts. WeNara began to use the first seat of 3DQuickPress in February 2007. Itsextensive usage yields a very high productivity in auto part production.Within 18 months of implementation, Nara was satisfied with the progressand expanded its usage to more tool designers. With the successfulimplementation of 3DQuickPress, other tool & die companies are payingattention to the benefits of 3D design processes.These benefits are not limited to auto partsindustries, other industries likeelectronics, and electricalappliances also yieldthe same degree ofbenefits.Die set design of Nara.11
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