Totalgaz deploys SolidWorks 3D design software

Edited by the Buildingtalk editorial team Nov 2, 2005

Leading gas equipment manufacturer Totalgaz deploys SolidWorks 3D design software to speed products to market.

Leading gas equipment manufacturer Totalgaz deploys SolidWorks 3D design software to speed products to market.

3D mechanical design solutions promise to cut design time, minimize prototyping costs, and support product line expansion.

One of Romania's largest privately owned makers of gas regulators and control stations is implementing 32 licenses of SolidWorks Office Professional and SolidWorks Office Premium software to accelerate product development from design through prototyping, marketing, and delivery.

Totalgaz S.A.is also using SolidWorks PDMWorks product data management software and PDMWorks Advanced Server to manage Totalgaz's design documents.

These solutions keep the company's revisions straight and link design with other enterprise departments, such as marketing and manufacturing.

They also trigger the execution of specific tasks, such as publishing recently approved documents as PDF files.

In 11 years of business, Totalgaz has become a leader in its market by quickly designing and delivering standard and customized gas regulators and control stations in Romania and neighboring countries.

Gas regulators are standard equipment in every customer's home or business, while control stations let gas providers centrally manage flow from their premises.

Totalgaz originally chose SolidWorks 3D mechanical design software to replace Autodesk Mechanical Desktop software because SolidWorks is faster, more stable, and better capable of handling large assemblies and drawings.

Totalgaz now completes complex product designs twice as fast and will implement the remaining 20 seats of SolidWorks Office Professional and SolidWorks Office Premium by November.

Maximizing the power of 3D.

SolidWorks software's ease of use and automation tools let the Totalgaz engineering team easily customize designs to customer specifications without increasing delivery time.

"Our gas control stations contain many pipes, fittings, gas regulators, and other standard parts that are difficult to design without a proper 3D system, and the SolidWorks Routing product included in SolidWorks Office Premium is the best tool to design complicated pipe routes," said Gabriel Valcescu, technical director at Totalgaz S.A.

"SolidWorks helps us easily verify interferences and collisions within control stations and eliminate design errors".

"Using PhotoWorks' rendering software, we have generated all the images needed for marketing materials and product presentations, and with SolidWorks eDrawings' collaboration software we can e-mail 3D content to our customers even before the product is released to manufacturing".

The Totalgaz team is also using COSMOSWorks Designer to test assemblies at various pressures and quickly apply changes by leveraging the associativity between SolidWorks 3D models and COSMOSWorks design analysis software.

"Totalgaz is a company that has fully harnessed the power of software to automate design and analysis at every possible turn," said Michel Gros, SolidWorks Corporation's executive vice president of Europe.

"SolidWorks software's ease of use and COSMOS integration promises to reap dividends in time, cost, and productivity for decades to come".

Totalgaz relies on SolidWorks reseller CAD Works for ongoing software training, implementation, and support.