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News Release from: Hepworth Building Products | Subject: Plumbing systems futures
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 28 June 2005
Hepworth help predict plumbing systems
futures
The latest investment at Hepworth Plumbing Products is designed to help the company predict the performance of new products at the earliest stage of development.
The latest investment at Hepworth Plumbing Products is designed to help the company predict the performance of new products at the earliest stage of development, enabling it further to streamline research work and reduce the timescale from the point at which a new concept is conceived to the time that it can be turned into a product offered to the market The company has upgraded all its development software systems to enable it to study both the way potential new products will behave during manufacture and when installed, long before the first physical prototype is made
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 5 Sep 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Explains Steve Currid, technical director: "Not so long ago computer software enabled us merely to look at the shape of products and examine them in 3D.
Now we can go much further using mould flow and finite element analysis to understand how product designs and shapes will perform".
"This speeds development whilst at the same time further enhancing design quality and avoiding time being spent on concepts which are likely to fall by the wayside".
Continuing investment in software and hardware technology is complemented by the use of rapid prototyping tools to reduce the time needed to reflect market developments.
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