EDVAN delivers value and Achieves KPI'S with Cadbim using PD&M Collection and Vault PDM

ED-VAN VENTILATOR INDUSTRY AND TRADE LTD. ŞTİ, provides service in solving all kinds of dust removal and industrial ventilation problems with its expert technical staff. The company has been established on an area of 20.000 m2 since 1975 and continues its activities in an indoor area of 8.000 m2. The company's management, marketing and design office is located in Izmir. The factory is located in Edremit District of Balıkesir Province.

ED-VAN products, applicable in all areas of the industry, are produced in compliance with national and international standards and norms, adopting customer protection as a principle. Since its establishment, more than its 100,000 products have been used at home and abroad, combining two important features which are high quality and cost-effectiveness. These features form a basis for their references.

In addition, their competent technical team provides: Faster, reliable, high-quality solutions to optimally meet the technical and cost expectations of all customers.

ED-VAN continues to serve its customers by addressing all emerging technical problems in the shortest time and in the most economical way possible. ED-VAN is specialized in designing and manufacturing the highly demanded equipment such as: Centrifugal, Axial, and Mixed-Flow fans, Dedusting Systems (Jet Pulse Filters, Cyclones and central-system sweeper, Wet Scrubbers, Oil Mist Collectors, and Auxiliary Equipment) and Pneumatic transport systems, in many industrial facilities.

Ed-van was using only Autodesk AutoCAD software in their design and production processes. However, producing CAD data in a 2D environment was not sufficient for gaining new customers and collaboration. There were rework at tendering processes for each different customer whom the sale and marketing teams get in touch with. In addition, in every new project, time and data were lost in the communication between the sales-marketing and R&D teams.

In this project as Cadbim;  we aimed to make Edvan win more bids by increasing the communication between sales and R&D teams for faster and more accurate quotation. Also they can now  provide 3D product visuals and factory design layouts to present the finished product to the customer.

We offered the customer the Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection , which includes solutions such as Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Inventor Nastran, Autodesk Inventor Nesting, Autodesk Vault Professional software and our training and consultancy services as part of our solutions to this project. 

Designs were created in 3D with Autodesk Inventor software. In order to submit the quotation quickly; the 3d model of product was created for desired requirements. All the BOM lists were obtained automatically and cost study became easy to calculate. In addition, 3D visuals and layout pictures of the product to be submitted to the customer were created, and supporting data was transferred to the sales-marketing team.

With Autodesk Inventor software, designs were created in a 3D modeling environment. In order for the companies contacted by the sales-marketing team to be quickly submitted, a 3D model of the product was created according to the desired requirements, and the necessary settings were made to automatically obtain the product list for pricing. All the material list related to the product was obtained automatically and cost study became possible to be done quickly. In addition, 3D visuals and layout pictures of the product to be submitted to the customer were created, and supporting data was transferred to the sales-marketing team.

Relevant settings have been defined to create technical drawings required for manufacturing over 3D CAD data and share them with production. A company template was created with Autodesk Vault Professional to store, share all design files and documents. Thanks to the storage of data with Microsoft SQL Server defined on the physical server of the company, the history of all files can be reported by following the version and revision. From now on multiple staff can work on the same project. In addition, since the sales-marketing and design team alongside with the production team were in different locations, the “Replication” feature on the Autodesk Vault professional software was used. Thus, even if the communication between the servers in two different locations is broken, as soon as the communication is established, all the operations on the Vault software can be synchronized simultaneously so data loss is prevented.

With the help of Autodesk Inventor Professional software, the company has moved the entire design process to the 3D modeling environment. The usage of of 3D modeling processes in quotation stages reduced their response time to customers by approximately 40%. In addition, the accuracy of the data transferred to production was ensured at a rate of 100%, preventing possible cost losses and delivery time delays. A data management template of the company was created with the help of Autodesk Vault solution. Regardless of the circumstances, the entire team was able to access each other's files within their authority. Data security was ensured by creating a history of the files along with the version and revision tracking.