 | Haigh chose SolidWorks and SmarTeam to meet their engineering design challenges. Also used is ME10 and E3 Series electrical software for routing the wiring in the products.
Martin Price, Chief Design Engineer, explains the evaluation process, “we looked at all the leading systems available at the time, some were just too complicated, some had poor sheet metal capabilities or we would need to buy extra packages. We wanted one package to do everything. What really convinced us to choose Cadtek Systems over other vendors, was that Cadtek were able to show us SolidWorks working in our own environment. We witnessed it doing exactly what we wanted, whereas other vendors would simply talk about how their solutions could work.
We are very pleased with SolidWorks, and we have found that SolidWorks are always adding
new functionality that we as engineers require. This has proven that our decision was the right one. We were up and running very quickly, obviously we still relied on our old system for a while because we had work in progress, but as new work came in we moved it on to the new system.” Martin states.
The migration into SmarTeam was also seamless. All the legacy data was imported into the
database during one evening, so now Haigh have full access to every component that they have ever created in one data vault. This vault will continue to grow as new designs are brought through the manufacturing process. |
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