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News Release from: CoCreate Software | Subject: CoCreate OneSpace Suite
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 01 October 2007
Software eases product development
The CoCreate OneSpace Suite helped a German company shorten development cycles dramatically and expanded its product portfolio for new markets.
Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik has adopted the CoCreate OneSpace Suite to systematically digitise product development The company has shortened development cycles dramatically and expanded its product portfolio
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 13 Feb 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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CoCreate's OneSpace Suite helps companies to quickly react to unexpected changes, resolving fundamental problems in a way that would be difficult with a history-based system.
CoCreate sales partner, Ascad, implemented the software and also takes care of user support for Grimme.
Products such as Grimme's large harvesters are highly customer-specific and frequently configured with a wide range of models and options.
Developers and design engineers at Damme regularly face the challenge of adapting machinery because of the complex interplay between climate, soil and weather conditions in different regions.
"As a global player, we have to build a piece of equipment that will work everywhere and under all conditions", says Klemens Kalverkamp, Grimme's Managing Director and Head of Technology.
To react faster and more flexibly to the needs of new customers in new regions, the company implemented CoCreate OneSpace Modeling and its dynamic modelling based approach to product design.
With the CoCreate software, designers work free of design history.
That means anybody can use and modify designs without worrying about previous modelling steps.
Plus, the OneSpace Suite includes key modules that streamline all of Grimme's work.
With Sheet Metal for OneSpace Modeling, the company's CAD software communicates seamlessly with Trumpf laser cutting machines and sheet metal folders.
Grimme develops all its agricultural machinery in 3D CAD, including hydraulic lines and wire harnesses.
The company also uses the model data for finite element calculations, production and assembly and automatic generation of technical documentation.
CoCreate's 3G PLM solution, which comprises OneSpace Modeling, OneSpace Model Manager and a range of additional modules, has played a large part in Grimme's success in halving development cycles over the past five years.
The quality of the equipment, too, has improved considerably.
Virtually all the components Grimme produces for its machines fit together perfectly, with no adjustments required.
"Without a 3D system like CoCreate's OneSpace Modeling, we couldn't even begin to harness the complex functionalities of our equipment", says Kalverkamp.
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