Success Story
Hostma Machinebouw is a young, ambitious and dynamic company. They deal with complex machines and mechatronic products. In their company, there is a pleasant working atmosphere with a lot of freedom. Their employees are driven professionals with a good work ethic. They think in terms of solutions and do everything they can to deliver a fine example of high-tech mechanics for you every time.
Not long after moving to Westerhoven, Stan Maas ran into fellow villager Marco Takx, CAD/CAM specialist at Cadac. “He saw that we were working with rather traditional CAD/CAM software and came up with an enthusiastic story about Autodesk Fusion 360. I had never heard of it. Must be pricey and complicated, I thought, but after a short demonstration I wanted to give it a try. Especially when Marco mentioned the price: 415 EUR for a one-year license. We followed a basic course together with our engineer and we were immediately convinced.'
Since then, Hostma Machinebouw's employees have been working exclusively with Autodesk Fusion 360. 'A fantastic program', says Marco Takx, one of the Cadac experts in the field of Autodesk. Especially for smaller companies. It is a platform on which the complete process from design and engineering to production takes place digitally. Suitable for the design of small parts and components up to and including complete machines.
Obviously a program that runs in the cloud so that everyone involved in the process always sees the current and the same version. Autodesk Fusion 360 has a large number of tools and can be widely used in the production process. With the complete design process with many options, with simulations such as the integration of electronics and the construction of housings and of course prototyping.'
Autodesk Fusion 360 ensures a smoother workflow, adds Frank Smets, account manager at Cadac. “Figures show that lead times can be halved, because design takes much less time and communication is faster. Internally, but also with the customer and possibly suppliers. Autodesk Fusion 360 is user-friendly, but a bit of training is needed.
Most people at Hostma have already taken one or more courses. Stan Maas: 'Autodesk Fusion 360 is fully established here. We haven't used all the options yet, but we will. For us, the program is a precondition for further growth. I don't rule out hiring one or two more people this year."
In principle, anyone with the right rights can watch the process. Adjustments can be made anywhere. Bottom line, this shortens production time and time-to-market.”
Hostma now has five licenses for the use of Autodesk Fusion 360. “Because you need one license per computer,” explains Marco Takx. “Even then, Hostma does not lose more than 2,200 EUR per year. A pittance compared to other programs that cost ten times that. And is this program less? On the contrary. A development team is constantly working on new tools and improvements. There is an update every five weeks.
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GMB Chooses Autodesk Construction Cloud
GMB is a versatile company, active in the world of water. GMB realizes dykes and port sites, renovates and builds sewers and pumping stations and designs and realizes purification installations and sludge processing installations. Digitization is high on the strategic agenda of the family business with its head office in Opheusden, Gelderland. Reason enough to work closely with Cadac to take steps in the coming years, especially in the field of Building Information Modeling (BIM). The first step is to install Autodesk Construction Cloud.
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