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21 March 2007
Implementation Investments
TactonWorks Boosts Customer Response Capability for Berg Propulsion
Tacton Systems announced that Berg Propulsion AB has implemented TactonWorks in its SolidWorks 3D applications to support its sales force and speed the process of providing customized marine propeller solutions.
Berg Propulsion is one of the world's leading designers and producers of Controllable Pitch Propellers (CPP) and Tunnel Thrusters for use in merchant shipping. Since almost all ship designs are unique, a lot of work goes into designing the shaft and propeller arrangement for the combination of hull, engine, and propeller.
Berg Propulsion has previously used AutoCAD to produce the individual 2D drawings for customer approval and manufacturing, a manual process that could take a week. It has now automated this process by using TactonWorks in SolidWorks instead, allowing the interactive engineering-to-order of complete 3D designs simply by defining the customer's requirements, and reviewing how the design changes for each selection.
The company has been working with 2D ACAD together with its own basic version of a configurator. In 2001 they started with 3D design using SolidWorks. The added complexity of upgrading to 3D design, plus the increasing number of choices in product elements and customer constraints, meant that the company had been looking for a means of streamlining and boosting the flexibility of the design phase of its propulsion systems.
"With such an infinitely variable range of options to cope with, the TactonWorks/SolidWorks solution provides us with the ideal way to generate drawings automatically. It gains a lot of time, and ensures a specification system that is virtually error-free," says Anders Thoresson, Technical Manager, Berg Propulsion AB.
For more information, contact:
Tacton Systems
Klas Orsvärn, Executive Vice President, R&D
Telephone: +46 (0)8 690 07 50
Cell: +46 (0)70 657 58 70
E-mail: klas.orsvarn@tacton.com
Berg Propulsion
Anders Thoresson, Technical Manager
Telephone: +46 (0) 31 976 524
Email: anders.thoresson@bergpropulsion.com
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