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	Actronika Designs Touch-Sensitive Haptic Technology Systems for Interactive Consumer Products

Actronika Designs Touch-Sensitive Haptic Technology Systems for Interactive Consumer Products

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries	Automotive Consumer Goods
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Digital Twin Predictive Maintenance Remote Collaboration
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	Haptic technology pioneer Actronika integrates its touch-sensitive screen processors into other companies’ hardware, including automobiles, phones, video games, and other consumer products. Working with multiple partners using multiple CAD systems, the Actronika engineering team was spending a considerable amount of time importing, exporting, and managing CAD files. The company was seeking a cloud-native product development platform that would eliminate the hassles of data management and speed up communication with manufacturing partners. Read More
About Customer	Based in Paris, France, Actronika is an R&D company that develops patented haptic processing units (HPUs) that connect to actuators and tiny vibrotactile motors inside other companies’ products to create 'endless possibilities of high definition sensations.' Actronika was launched in 2016, based on the research of Vincent Hayward, Professor of Tactile Perception and Technologies at Sorbonne University. The company focuses on enriching the relationship between humans and machines by adding the sense of touch. Actronika’s three main focuses are the automotive, mobile, and gaming industries. They are a partner of Novares, a global plastic component supplier to OEMs and Tier-1 companies in the automotive industry. Read More
Solution	To streamline communication between their design team and their external partners, Actronika chose PTC’s Onshape, the only SaaS product development platform that combines CAD, data management, real-time collaboration tools, and business analytics. Onshape’s Sharing feature allows Actronika to instantly share CAD models with manufacturing partners to review in real time. The platform’s built-in version control eliminates the risk of engineers working on the wrong version of a design. Onshape’s portability allows easier access for the company’s Linux-using software team to participate in design reviews. Additionally, Onshape’s real-time data management ensures that whenever an engineer makes a change or edit to their 3D CAD model, everyone on the design team instantly sees it. A comprehensive Edit History also records who made what changes and when, allowing the team to return to any prior state of the design at any time. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Automotive

Consumer Goods

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Digital Twin

Predictive Maintenance

Remote Collaboration

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

Haptic technology pioneer Actronika integrates its touch-sensitive screen processors into other companies’ hardware, including automobiles, phones, video games, and other consumer products. Working with multiple partners using multiple CAD systems, the Actronika engineering team was spending a considerable amount of time importing, exporting, and managing CAD files. The company was seeking a cloud-native product development platform that would eliminate the hassles of data management and speed up communication with manufacturing partners.

About Customer

Based in Paris, France, Actronika is an R&D company that develops patented haptic processing units (HPUs) that connect to actuators and tiny vibrotactile motors inside other companies’ products to create 'endless possibilities of high definition sensations.' Actronika was launched in 2016, based on the research of Vincent Hayward, Professor of Tactile Perception and Technologies at Sorbonne University. The company focuses on enriching the relationship between humans and machines by adding the sense of touch. Actronika’s three main focuses are the automotive, mobile, and gaming industries. They are a partner of Novares, a global plastic component supplier to OEMs and Tier-1 companies in the automotive industry.

Solution

To streamline communication between their design team and their external partners, Actronika chose PTC’s Onshape, the only SaaS product development platform that combines CAD, data management, real-time collaboration tools, and business analytics. Onshape’s Sharing feature allows Actronika to instantly share CAD models with manufacturing partners to review in real time. The platform’s built-in version control eliminates the risk of engineers working on the wrong version of a design. Onshape’s portability allows easier access for the company’s Linux-using software team to participate in design reviews. Additionally, Onshape’s real-time data management ensures that whenever an engineer makes a change or edit to their 3D CAD model, everyone on the design team instantly sees it. A comprehensive Edit History also records who made what changes and when, allowing the team to return to any prior state of the design at any time.

Impact #1	Built-in version control eliminates the risk of engineers working on the wrong version of a design.
Impact #2	Onshape’s Sharing feature allows Actronika to instantly share CAD models with manufacturing partners to review in real time.
Impact #3	Onshape’s CAD portability allows easier access for the company’s Linux-using software team to participate in design reviews.

Impact #1

Built-in version control eliminates the risk of engineers working on the wrong version of a design.

Impact #2

Onshape’s Sharing feature allows Actronika to instantly share CAD models with manufacturing partners to review in real time.

Impact #3

Onshape’s CAD portability allows easier access for the company’s Linux-using software team to participate in design reviews.

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Actronika Designs Touch-Sensitive Haptic Technology Systems for Interactive Consumer Products

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