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Standardizing the Design Process: Solid Comfort

Standardizing the Design Process: Solid Comfort

Customer challenge

SolidComfort is a specified casegoods supplier for world-class brands including Marriott (Fairfield Inn & Suites and TownePlace Suites), Hilton (Home2 Suites and Hilton Garden Inn), Best Western, and My Place. They were struggling to meet design deadlines and realized their processes varied significantly between members of the engineering team. They were lacking in version control and document management, and their team was using different versions of engineering software. The customer was also in the process of implementing a new ERP system but didn’t know how best to connect all the different applications throughout the Engineering and Manufacturing process.

Project goals

The goal of this project was to improve SolidComfort’s processes and quality control by unifying which software versions their team used and updating their data management techniques. In addition to unifying the team's tools, they also wanted to make better use of the software they had available to them.

Solution

Our team spent a couple of days with the customer’s team interviewing key people to map out current workflows and identify bottlenecks, challenges, and other issues. We talked to key people throughout the organization, including Design, Manufacturing, Sourcing, and Management. After a thorough analysis of their needs, Applied uncovered many areas that could be improved and provided a full report documenting the customer’s next steps. This report included workflow modifications, cost estimates, training, identifying key performance indicators for their business, and more.

Business outcome

Through this process of working with Applied Engineering, SolidComfort has seen a faster and more consistent design process. Due to standardizing on design processes, moving to the latest versions and training from Applied they have seen a 20-30% efficiency gain on design and saved days on getting drawings to production. This has also created higher quality renderings and drawings which has helped with production and sales.

Conclusion

The customer was already using several powerful design and data management tools, but just not in a consistent, efficient way. They were also using older versions and were not consistent throughout the Design and Manufacturing team. Applied’s knowledge of the capabilities in Autodesk AutoCAD, Inventor, and Vault Professional helped identify areas and functions that could be improved with the tools they already had. It also helped to have a diverse background in Design workflows to recognize tasks that could be automated and and/or improved. Additionally, Applied’s level of organization and communication made the process much easier for the customer to follow along with.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 384
  • 2022-01-20

    Autodesk solutions

  • AutoCAD
  • Inventor
  • Vault Professional

    Services provided

  • System Implementation
  • Configuration & Deployment
  • Workflow Documentation

    Customer industry

  • Design & Manufacturing
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Poly-Tex, a manufacturer and retailer of greenhouses and display systems, already used Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD, but they struggled with data organization. This created a lack of efficiency in their design processes. They recognized the need to organize and categorize their design components and to secure important data. After a software demonstration of Vault Professional, a product data management system, the decision was made to purchase Vault Professional from our technology team. In order to implement the new system efficiently and get the most out of it, Poly-Tex asked Applied’s Vault expert to come onsite and facilitate the installation, configuration, data migration, and training for Vault administrators and users. Due to recent departures and transfers, they did not have the staff to be able to tackle this transition on their own while keeping up with their day to day projects. Because of the workload, Poly-Tex also wanted to automate common design projects.

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