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News Release from: PTC - Parametric Technology (UK) | Subject: PTC Pro/Engineer
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 29 January 2008
3D design tool chosen for broadcasting
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Sony's Professional Services Division is using PTC Pro/Engineer to cut the development time for its outside broadcast vehicles.
Sony's Professional Services Division is using PTC Pro/Engineer as its standard 3D design tool to produce tailor-made Outside Broadcast (OB) vehicles Deploying Pro/Engineer, PTC's integrated 3D CAD/CAM/CAE software, supports Sony's strategic initiative to significantly reduce the development time of its outside broadcast (OB) vehicles through design automation
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 13 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Sony creates OB vehicles for a wide variety of customers in the broadcast industry based on custom-built trailer chassis or truck chassis provided by various OEMs.
These special purpose vehicles are customised to each customer's requirements.
By enabling the design team to transfer the basic spreadsheet of customer requirements into Pro/Engineer, which automatically creates a complete and accurate 3D model of the rack-mounted units, Sony's Professional Services team has succeeded in significantly reducing the development time of each build.
By showing the customer what their vehicle is going to look like very early on in the development process, the team of engineers not only benefits from faster decision-making but also has more time to focus on delivering other parts of the build.
"We integrate 19in rack-mounted products in every OB vehicle we build, but the traditional process to install each piece of equipment into the 3D model of each rack was taking a considerable amount of time", said Adrian Plant, Project Design Manager at Sony.
"Thanks to PTC's process that automates the population of our rack mounts within Pro/Engineer, we have been able to remove the bottleneck and the team is now expecting about a man year's worth of work in time saving".
"The accelerated production time experienced by Sony's Professional Services team is evidence of the power and flexibility of Pro/Engineer for highly complex tasks", said Chad Hawkinson, Vice President, Product Strategy, Electronics, PTC.
"By automating design activities and rapidly developing digital prototypes, we aim to provide the extra edge for high-end technology companies which strive to deliver great service to their customers".
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