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Sicca Dania: One CAD Platform Connecting Engineering Units Around the Globe

Sicca Dania: One CAD Platform Connecting Engineering Units Around the Globe

Customer challenge

Founded in 2014, SiccaDania designs, engineers, installs, commissions, and services a variety of equipment used in the dairy, starch and food industries. SiccaDania plants and processes are based on customised standard solutions, which allows for a unique, yet standardised control philosophy for the overall automation. SiccaDania had problems with insufficient workflows for engineers collaborating from different business sites. Maintaining multiple CAD platforms together with lot of manually entered data into different systems led to a lot of time spent on non-value-added work.

Project goals

The following project goals were prioritized: 1) Save time 2) Enable one unified CAD platform 3) Enhance collaboration and workflows 4) Improve work pleasure

Solution

SiccaDania and Symetri started their collaboration with a workshop looking into the business processes and challenges. A pilot study followed aiming at testing the performance characteristics and capabilities required. Symetri then implemented a solution with Autodesk Vault Professional and Inventor along with customisations. The solution has helped SiccaDania to achieve their goals requiring remote collaboration and coordination. The lifecycle workflow implemented in Vault has increased the overall data quality and has saved a lot of time.

Business outcome

Using Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection with Autodesk Vault Professional encourages all engineers to work in the same way improving collaboration and minimizing delivery time. With one unified CAD platform, there has been several workflow improvements for the engineering teams within and between the different business units. Vault is used as a central source of all project data and engineers from different sites can access and work with the same data. All main business entities within Sicca Dania use Inventor as the main tool in the sales and project execution phase. In Inventor, engineers use the built-in tools to collaborate with engineers at other sites and they can follow the entire product development lifecycle. Engineers can now focus on their design work, creating and collaborating more efficiently which has significantly reduced the delivery time for customer projects.

Conclusion

Together with SiccaDania, Symetri replaced a scattered CAD environment with a modern long-term solution combining Autodesk products with customized ad-ins developed by Symetri. Engineers at SiccaDania now work with much more satisfaction and less concerns. They are now using the same CAD software on all different business units and sites. The whole engineering process from concept to manufactured product has been streamlined and now uses the same data, parameters and names - all mapped in Vault Professional.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 300
  • 2021-03-31

    Autodesk solutions

  • Inventor
  • AutoCAD
  • AutoCAD Mechanical
  • Vault Professional

    Services provided

  • System Implementation
  • Configuration & Deployment

    Customer industry

  • Design & Manufacturing
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