Enclosure maker slashes the design cycle

A PTC - Parametric Technology (UK) product story

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Dec 18, 2007

LFE needed a solution that could create a common working environment and methodologies to improve engineering efficiency.

Loyalty Founder Enterprise (LFE), a global leader in the metal and plastic electronics enclosure industry, has standardised on PTC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0 and PTC Pro/Intralink 8.0 to transform its product development process and cut design cycle time by 40%.

Pro/Engineer, PTC's integrated 3D CAD/CAM/CAE software, helps companies develop detailed, intuitive and realistic 3D product representations, rapidly transferring innovative ideas into successful products.

LFE complemented its new standardised design system with Pro/Intralink 8.0 to manage and eliminate data inconsistencies.

Founded in Taiwan, LFE is a proven leader in the metal stamping and plastic injection moulding industries with over 25 years of engineering and manufacturing experience.

Today's increasingly complex product development environment requires LFE to shorten time to market by compressing development cycles without compromising results.

Prior to choosing PTC, LFE's nonstandardised design process did not allow LFE's engineers to effectively analyse key mould design elements.

As a result, design errors were often not identified until the physical mould prototype was created, causing rework and development delays.

With geographically dispersed clients and teams, communication with clients, or even between concurrent designing teams and departments was also problematic.

LFE needed a solution that could create a common working environment and methodologies to improve engineering efficiency.

After deploying PTC solutions, LFE was able reduce its mould design cycle time by 40% and elevate overall design efficiency among its engineering teams by 20%.

Pro/Engineer also enabled LFE to decrease mould design change and BOM list development time.

Designs were also quickly reusable, saving critical time that would have previously been spent on re-design efforts.

This is extremely important when a project is under a compressed time frame because it speeds delivery time to customers.

Pro/Intralink enabled centralised vaulting and revision control of Pro/Engineer models, relationships and functionality for improved information security and accuracy.

LFE was also able to configure the level of access control of its employees for any project and then communicate any changes broadly.

"At LFE, we can support almost any kind of metal stamping and plastic injection design-for-manufacturing (DFM) needs".

"To fulfil such a promise of product quality to our customers, we have to ensure that for every project, we are able reduce project costs, minimise human error and improve collaboration among different departments to increase operating efficiency", says Po Hu, General Manager, LFE.

"PTC's industry-proven design solutions have enabled us to do just that".

"By utilising the fully integrated Pro/Engineer solutions, our engineers can now develop all kinds of mould designs to fulfil our customers' requirements within one application".

"They can also now manage data more easily with Pro/Intralink, allowing them to concentrate on innovative product design".

"We are pleased that LFE has chosen to adopt Pro/Engineer and Pro/Intralink software for their outstanding software architecture and capabilities, reliable performance, security and technical support", says Brian Shepherd, Divisional Vice President Product Management, PTC.

"LFE's outstanding post-deployment benefits are clear evidence to the rest of the industry that Pro/Engineer and Pro/Intralink are truly effective productivity tools that promote best practices in design while ensuring compliance with any industry or company standards".

"We are confident that as LFE's business continues to grow, PTC will continue to support their expanding engineering and design requirements".