Jergens accelerates customers' product delivery and boosts sales with SolidWorks 3D PartStream.NET
CONCORD, Mass.--Aug. 5, 2002--Jergens Inc. is using SolidWorks 3D PartStream.NET(R) to enhance customer productivity while increasing sales of its tooling and fixture components used in aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding, and industrial products, SolidWorks announced today. Powered by 3D PartStream.NET, the Jergens online catalog allows design engineers to view interactive 3D models of Jergens' components and download the exact product configurations into their designs, reducing their overall manufacturing costs and increasing product quality, while ensuring customers incorporate Jergens' products into their designs.
3D PartStream.NET enables customers to download 3D CAD models of Jergens' products in a few minutes instead of taking hours to draw components from scratch based on information found in paper catalogs. Jergens' tooling and fixture components allow customers to accurately locate and hold work pieces to machine tools, such as vertical and horizontal machine centers, as well as other shop floor machinery. With tight production schedules, Jergens customers need innovative ways to tool their equipment quickly and accurately for every manufacturing job. Proper fixture alignment is essential during this changeover process, and any small miscalculation could cause significant problems downstream in manufacturing.
"Our customers rely on us to deliver products that perform at extremely small tolerances," said Greg Arnold, marketing manager at Jergens Inc. "Using 3D PartStream.NET, our online catalog gives customers real-time access to accurate 2D and 3D representations of our components in the CAD format of their choice. This convenience and reliability gives us a distinct advantage over our competitors."
Jergens chose 3D PartStream.NET because it supports a variety of CAD formats and was easy to integrate with the company's existing online catalog. Jergens employees built the catalog from scratch and easily added 3D PartStream.NET configuration, viewing, and download capabilities to the site in just three weeks using the XML-based application programming interface.
Previously, Jergens maintained a large database of static 2D and 3D CAD files to support its online catalog. As business grew, it needed to more efficiently manage CAD data. Products such as Jergens' Kwik-Lock line have thousands of possible stand and custom configurations, making it nearly impossible to manage thousands of CAD models. With 3D PartStream.NET, Jergens manages just five CAD models for the entire Kwik-Lock line, translating into huge time savings for its engineers while providing customers with reliable access to the CAD format and version they need.
"Engineers work in fast-paced environments and constantly need new ways to increase output and lower production costs," said Bob Noftle, general manager of content solutions at SolidWorks Corporation. "From the initial equipment designs to the shop floor, Jergens is supporting their customers with innovative products and Web-based solutions for increasing customer productivity. 3D PartStream.NET is helping Jergens deliver on that vision, while ensuring that their customers `design in' and subsequently purchase Jergens tooling and fixture components."
About Jergens Inc.
Since 1942, Jergens Inc. has manufactured the "Standard Components with the Highest Standards." Jergens offers off-the-shelf products that include workholding and locating components used on jigs and fixtures for a wide range of applications in the manufacturing industry. Other products include Jergens own brand of quick release pins (Kwik-Lok Pins), toggle clamps, power clamping systems, center-pull and side-pull style hoist rings, as well as innovative products like the BallLock(TM) Mounting System, ElectraLock Clamps, and Staylock(R) Clamps that help to reduce fixture changeover time. The Jergens online catalog is located at http://www.jergensinc.com/.
About SolidWorks Corporation
SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. company, develops and markets mechanical design software solutions. Founded in 1993, SolidWorks' mission is to unleash the power of 3D for everyone in product development. In six years of shipping product, SolidWorks has shipped more than 188,000 total seats of software worldwide. SolidWorks has offices around the globe and sells, distributes, and supports its products through a worldwide network of resellers. For the latest news, information, or a live online demonstration, visit the company's Web site (www.solidworks.com) or call 1-800-693-9000 (outside of North America, call +1-978-371-5000).
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