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Leading the Way | Continuous Improvement for Indusvent

Leading the Way | Continuous Improvement for Indusvent

Customer challenge

Indusvent has a history of over 50 years in the dust extraction business and has been drawing in 2D AutoCAD® for around 25 of those years. While delighted with the ease of use and reliability of the AutoCAD software, Indusvent wanted to move away from drawing pieces of ducting and equipment line by line, as well as having to complete multiple iterations of elevations. Indusvent wanted a software solution that was 3D-based and would deliver a rapid return on investment (RoI).

Project goals

Before implementing Inventor, Indusvent would have only had the plan and an elevation to work from. They would have to go through every single joint, listing out what was needed, and then try to do the work from several elevations, without doing it twice and without missing anything. In addition to Inventor, Indusvent was keen to implement Autodesk Vault to automate the management of their CAD data and associated document files, to drive further workflow improvements.

Solution

The Quadra team suggested coming onsite to discover how Indusvent operated, better understand the business objectives and make recommendations to move forward. Using Indusvent’s dataset, Quadra demonstrated proof of concept in achieving those objectives and advised investing in Autodesk Inventor®, which provides professional-grade 3D mechanical design, documentation and product simulation tools. The use of Autodesk Vault was also identified as a solution to help Indusvent better manage its design data. Vault has brought significant benefits to Indusvent, especially with many employees still working from home. Implementing Autodesk Vault has helped set a trend towards better file management and enforce better design file management good-practice.

Business outcome

By using Inventor the process is simplified mainly because there is a library of parts and once the design is completed there is a ‘bill of materials'. This process provides the correct information in order to produce that piece. For a small dust extraction system, which is quite a common job, completion can be achieved in two or three hours compared to the 2-3 days it would have previously taken. Another driver is capacity. Previously drawing a system line by line may have taken Indusvent three or four days, now that the company has Inventor this can be done in under a day.

Conclusion

Autodesk software has helped advance Indusvent’s design processes, but there are still many plans in the pipeline. Moving forwards, Indusvent will continue to enhance how they design systems. Together with Quadra and with the help of Autodesk software, Indusvent is confident they can continue to innovate and improve how they operate in the future.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 60
  • 2021-04-08

    Autodesk solutions

  • Inventor
  • Vault Professional

    Services provided

  • Business Transformation Services

    Customer industry

  • Design & Manufacturing
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