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General Machinery Industry Solutions

Manufacturers of machinery operate in a mature market where increasing global competition keeps forcing the costs of production down. As a result, the leading companies in this industry have been among the most extensive and innovative users of virtual product development. They're applying the technology to the design and development of everything from lawn and garden tools to heavy construction and earth-moving equipment.

The process of design, build, and test with physical prototypes is the engineering approach that has been used for years. It is proven and reliable for designing machinery to meet specialised demands in farming, forestry, construction, and a host of other environments. But the process takes too long and requires too many prototypes to "get it right".

The new approach for all of engineering is to create virtual prototypes that can be tested in the computer, duplicating the conditions the entire machine will experience. In this virtual environment, the design can be changed, new prototypes can be built, and virtual tests can be run in minutes instead of months. This new approach has been proven in demanding aerospace applications, and shown reliable in time-critical automotive applications. Why not use these same techniques on all of your engineering designs?

Title		Customer

	Virtual Layout of Hydraulic Hose Routing Saves Time & Reduces Delays John Deere engineers loaded hydraulic hose models into Adams for dynamic analysis. Adams is being used for modelling such machine dynamics as folding, articulating, dumping, and length extension due to pressure, as if the vehicle were going through its normal operations.	John Deere

	Solving a Pressing Problem Invernizzi Presse employed Marc and Patran to improve existing designs and to develop new custom presses while illustrating the functional performance of the designs to their customers.	Invernizzi Presse

	Durability Analysis Helps Cut Rotary Cutter Development Time in Half John Deere used Adams and Fatigue to complete the design and testing of their new rotary cutter system within two weeks instead of several months.	John Deere Welland Works

	MSC.Software Helps Perform Complex Kinematic Simulation in the Textile Industry Fimtextile used Adams and MSC Nastran to analyse new machines and to optimise the dynamics of existing ones. They simulated the performance and function of the shedding motions before building a prototype and reduced the number of physical prototypes required to verify the design.	FimTextile

	Robust Design and Virtual Prototyping to Reduce Design Cycle Time Whirlpool used Adams to introduce the Calypso washer on time and received the top awards in the December 2000 and August 2001 Consumer Reports washer appliance evaluation.	Whirlpool Corporation

	Assuring Clearance in Logging Equipment When collisions occurred in tests of a new log grapple design, engineers turned to Adams for insight. After quickly finding and fixing the problem, they got the grapple to market on time.	John Deere

	Cutting Time to Market for Saw Chains In a program to shorten the development cycle to less than a year, OCS is using Adams to predict the performance of saw chain designs in varying conditions on the computer.	Oregon Cutting Systems

	Reality Check Engineers at Bayer Diagnostics Near Patient Testing facility used Adams to help simulate and test the full-motion behaviour of medical equipment and other complex mechanical systems.	Bayer Group

	Simulation Helps Otto Fuchs Forge Competitive Advantage SuperForge enabled engineers to model products, tools and processes and test multiple design iterations for performance before tooling was made.	OTTO FUCHS Metallwerke

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