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Industry Machinery Business initiatives New product development Business challenges Much larger competitors Price pressure from Chinese companies Shorter lead times Keys to success NX software for designing complex shapes; Solid Edge software for assembled parts Close collaboration with cus- tomer (often at the customer site) Consistent high quality Results Molds ready in only 8 weeks; 3 weeks faster than the competition Staff of 9 designs approxi- mately 90 molds/year First-shot success rate of 97 percent 300 percent revenue increase in 8 years With help from NX and Solid Edge, this mold maker increases revenues and expands across the EU while others in the industry struggle Tough business climate Injecdesign, established in 2000, special- izes in injection-molded plastic parts, offering services for both product and mold design. The company also partners with mold fabricators so that it can offer a full range of services – f rom concept NX • Solid Edge www.siemens.com/plm Injecdesign Thriving in lean times development through to production. Injecdesign’s customers are located across the European Union (EU) in Spain, France, Holland, Germany, Sweden and Austria as well as in the United States. They span a range of industries including electronic, electric, aerospace, automotive, industrial machinery and medical equipment. Injecdesign employs nine people. The company has quite a few competitors in Portugal, and many more across the EU. Nearly all of the competitors are larger companies with at least ve times as many
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Industry
Machinery
Business initiatives
New product development
Business challenges
Much larger competitors
Price pressure from Chinesecompanies
Shorter lead times
Keys to success
NX software for designingcomplex shapes; Solid Edgesoftware for assembled parts
Close collaboration with cus-tomer (often at the customersite)
Consistent high quality
Results
Molds ready in only 8 weeks;3 weeks faster than thecompetition
Staff of 9 designs approxi-mately 90 molds/year
First-shot success rate of97 percent
300 percent revenue increasein 8 years
With help from NX and SolidEdge, this mold maker increasesrevenues and expands across theEU while others in the industrystruggle
Tough business climateInjecdesign, established in 2000, special-izes in injection-molded plastic parts,offering services for both product andmold design. The company also partnerswith mold fabricators so that it can offer afull range of services – f rom concept
NX • Solid Edge
www.siemens.com/plm
InjecdesignThriving in lean times
development through to production.Injecdesign’s customers are located acrossthe European Union (EU) in Spain, France,Holland, Germany, Sweden and Austria aswell as in the United States. They span arange of industries including electronic,electric, aerospace, automotive, industrialmachinery and medical equipment.
Injecdesign employs nine people. Thecompany has quite a few competitors inPortugal, and many more across the EU.Nearly all of the competitors are largercompanies with at least ve times as many
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employees. This puts pressure on
Injecdesign’s staff to prepare quotationsand complete mold designs as quickly asthe larger companies do. But local compe-tition is only part of what has become avery challenging business climate for moldmakers in Europe. Chinese companies arealso competing in the EU for mold work,with prices that are extraordinarily low.They have driven mold prices down to apoint where many of Injecdesign’s compet-itors have either gone out of business,been purchased by larger companies or arestruggling to stay a oat.
Increasing revenuesIn contrast, Injecdesign is thriving. Thecompany’s revenues have increased 300percent since 2000, even as mold priceshave dropped dramatically and raw mate-rial costs have increased over that time. Itsstaff has grown from two people to thecurrent nine. And its customer base con-tinues to spread into new countries.
Sérgio Pinho, Injecdesign’s general man-ager, credits much of his company’ssuccess to the added value Injecdesign can
offer, particularly to small and medium-size manufacturing companies. And forthis, he credits his company’s designsoftware, the NX™ digital product develop-ment system and the Solid Edge® CADprogram from Siemens PLM Software. “Ourdesign software allows us to work fast andnot make mistakes, which means we canmatch or beat anyone else’s quality anddelivery time,” he says. “It also lets us
collaborate with customers in a way that
they value – to the point that even thoughwe sometimes quote higher costs, we stillwin business.”
Injecdesign purchased NX and Solid Edgefrom Cad ow, a Siemens PLM Softwarereseller located in Marinha Grande,Portugal. “Cad ow delivers the combina -tion of high-quality software and goodservice,” says Pinho. “They have been veryhelpful to us in supporting our vision.”
Injecdesign nds NX and Solid Edge to becomplementary programs, according toPinho. He originally purchased NX to getthe high-end modeling functionality heneeded to design parts (and the corre-sponding molds) with complex shapes.Then he equipped his technical depart-ment with NX Mold Design to streamlinethe design process for molds. Recently headded one seat of Solid Edge, which isused for parts and part assemblies.
Better service, faster deliveryOne of the services that sets Injecdesignapart is how closely it works with its cus-
tomers. Pinho often takes his laptop andNX to the customer’s facility where heworks with the company’s engineers inter-actively to design a product. “Often they
just have some sketches or even just anidea of what they want,” Pinho explains. “Imodel the product in 3D and we look atevery potential problem. Then I go backand design the molds.”
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