Case Studies POLYRACK TECH-GROUP: Speeding Time-to-Market for Electronics Packaging Systems with SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Design
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POLYRACK TECH-GROUP: Speeding Time-to-Market for Electronics Packaging Systems with SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Design

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POLYRACK TECH-GROUP needed to streamline the development of initial concept designs to shorten the sales cycle, compress development time, and accelerate time-to-market. The company identified the need for a new design solution for quickly modeling design concepts to support faster proposal development and improve collaboration with global customers. Traditional CAD methods were time-consuming, taking a couple of weeks to create early 3D concepts that required some early validation of motion and stresses. This inefficiency was a bottleneck in their development process, leading to delays in securing customer approvals and decisions on prototypes.
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POLYRACK TECH-GROUP is a leading German manufacturer of packaging solutions for electronic equipment. The company produces both standard and customized electronic packaging systems, including subracks, cases, industrial PC applications, and plug-in-modules. POLYRACK's products are used in various industries such as communications, broadcast, security, defense, transportation, utilities, and medical sectors, as well as in test and measurement environments. The company has been utilizing SOLIDWORKS design and electronics cooling simulation tools for several years to enhance its development processes. Recently, POLYRACK sought a new design solution to quickly model design concepts, support faster proposal development, and improve collaboration with global customers.
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POLYRACK implemented SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Design software to address its challenges. The company participated in the SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Design Lighthouse Program, which allowed them to use the software in production as part of prerelease testing. This early usage confirmed that the software would help streamline the development of early design concepts, shorten the sales cycle, compress development time, and accelerate time-to-market. SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Design enabled POLYRACK to create early 3D concepts more efficiently, simulate movements and relationships of parts, and validate structural performance. The software's Direct Editing capabilities facilitated faster and easier design changes, even for customer models received as STEP files. Additionally, the social collaboration features of SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Design improved and accelerated collaboration with international customers by providing a running, blog-like tally of a design concept's progression within a specific online community.
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POLYRACK realized significant time savings during initial conceptual design and throughout product development, leading to a 10 to 20 percent reduction in time-to-market.
The company was able to cut initial design development time from two weeks to two days, allowing for faster production and delivery of products to market.
The software's Direct Editing capabilities enabled quick modifications to customer models, optimizing performance during initial conceptual design.
Reduced time-to-market by 10 to 20 percent.
Cut initial design development time from two weeks to two days.
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