Industry Solutions

Boosting the Profitability of Oil and Gas Drilling and Production

Maintaining profitability in today’s oil and gas industry has steadily become more challenging. The combination of falling fuel prices and rising costs—associated with offshore drilling and hydraulic fracturing—have squeezed profit margins, making increased design and manufacturing efficiencies vital to your success. Download this white paper to learn how the integrated SOLIDWORKS® 3D development platform— including design, simulation, product data management, model-based definition (MBD), inspection, communication, documentation, and visualization solutions—can help you overcome trying market conditions and succeed.

How SOLIDWORKS Software Speeds Consumer Product Design

In this white paper, you will learn how SOLIDWORKS solutions bridges the gap between industrial design and engineering by providing powerful conceptual sketching tools, robust and easy-to-use surfacing capabilities, the ability to easily transition design from concept to detail, and the industry’s top mechanical engineering environment—all rolled into one environment.

Navigating the Hurdles of Hardware Startups: Perspectives From Successful Hardware Entrepreneurs

This white paper offers helpful guidance to early-stage hardware entrepreneurs that can lead them down the path of success and shares nuggets of wisdom from successful entrepreneurs who have gone through some growing pains and are continuing to lead their companies as successful, young enterprises.

Recharge Electronics and High-Tech Product Development with SOLIDWORKS Software

The increasingly rapid pace of technology development—with an abundance of electronic products and new technologies hitting the global market at an unprecedented rate—creates many challenges for manufacturers. To succeed in this competitive environment, developing innovative products more quickly, cost-effectively, and at higher levels of quality has become more important than ever. With integrated SOLIDWORKS  software solutions, you can refine, consolidate, and improve your development processes—and deliver new technology applications and innovative electronic products faster than the competition.  Learn more in this informative whitepaper.

Streamline Process and Plant Design with 3D
Building plants and processing systems—or even an entire factory—in a
global economy has become more challenging than ever. Competition is
stiff and capital is tight, so the need to control costs, ensure quality, and
speed delivery is critical to your success.

Analysis Guide for Electronics/Electrical Product Designers

This guide describes the key design performance issues facing electronics and electrical product manufacturers and identifies the benefits of using SOLIDWORKS Simulation software for electronics and electrical product design.

Analysis Guide for Machine Designers

This guide describes the key design performance issues facing machine designers and manufacturers and identifies the benefits of using SOLIDWORKS Simulation software in their product development cycle.

Analysis Guide for Medical Product Designers

Today's medical industry is highly volatile and competitive, and changes almost on a daily basis. Designers have to develop new products quickly, at lower cost, while making sure of consistently high quality and performance.

Bringing Innovative Medical Products to Market Faster

Leadership in the medical equipment market is defined by innovation and rapid new product introduction.

Designing Molds Quickly, Accurately, and Cost-Effectively with SOLIDWORKS

The mold industry has seen rising costs and longer cycle times. This trend is accelerated by the challenge to produce more complex molds that generate higher-quality parts.

Efficient Design for the Oil and Gas Industry

Meeting the product development, equipment design, and systems engineering needs of manufacturers serving the oil and gas industry presents distinct challenges in today’s ever-evolving and increasingly multifaceted global energy marketplace.

How SOLIDWORKS Speeds Consumer Product Design

Consumer product design is one of the most challenging environments which professionals must create and collaborate in to create products that are both functional and desirable.

Incorporating Mechatronics Into Your Design Process

Designers of mechatronics products must create highly complex mechatronics systems that successfully integrate electrical, mechanical, and information-processing components.

Streamlining the Design of Packaging Machinery

Packing equipment customer expectations grow increasingly demanding. The expected time to react and respond continues to shrink. At each phase of your design cycle your challenges and deliverables are different.

Streamlining the Design of Industrial Machinery and Heavy Equipment

Makers of industrial machinery and heavy equipment face many challenges, as well as a competitive manufacturing landscape that requires the streamlining of product development processes.

Executing Effectively from Design to Manufacturing

Over the years SOLIDWORKS has developed significant support for transitioning products from design to manufacturing. Today, many new capabilities have been built into SOLIDWORKS to support the creation of information that is necessary when establishing efficient manufacturing processes and assuring that products can be produced profitably. While SOLIDWORKS continues to provide geometric check functionality for plastic parts, cast parts, and sheet metal parts—it now features a new costing tool that provides automated cost estimation capabilities and SOLIDWORKS DFMXpress, a tool that checks designs for manufacturability. In addition, many SOLIDWORKS Gold Partners have embedded their own CAM products directly inside SOLIDWORKS’ 3D CAD environment and SOLIDWORKS’ new SOLIDWORKS Plastics product provides plastic part designers and mold makers with detailed insight into the manufacturability of their plastic designs via plastic injection molding simulations.