Leading Gas Equipment Manufacturer TOTALGAZ Deploys
SolidWorks 3D Design Software to Speed Products to Market; 3D Mechanical Design
Solutions Promise to Cut Design Time, Minimize Prototyping Costs, and Support
Product Line Expansion
31 October 2005, 08:00am ET
CONCORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2005--One of
Romania's largest privately owned makers of gas regulators and control stations
is implementing 32 licenses of SolidWorks(R) Office Professional and SolidWorks
Office Premium software to accelerate product development from design through
prototyping, marketing, and delivery.
TOTALGAZ S.A. is also using SolidWorks PDMWorks(R) product
data management software and PDMWorks Advanced Server to manage TOTALGAZ's
design documents. These solutions keep the company's revisions straight and
link design with other enterprise departments, such as marketing and
manufacturing. They also trigger the execution of specific tasks, such as
publishing recently approved documents as PDF files.
In 11 years of business, TOTALGAZ has become a leader in its
market by quickly designing and delivering standard and customized gas
regulators and control stations in Romania and neighboring countries. Gas
regulators are standard equipment in every customer's home or business, while
control stations let gas providers centrally manage flow from their premises.
TOTALGAZ originally chose SolidWorks 3D mechanical design
software to replace Autodesk(R) Mechanical Desktop(R) software because
SolidWorks is faster, more stable, and better capable of handling large
assemblies and drawings. TOTALGAZ now completes complex product designs twice
as fast and will implement the remaining 20 seats of SolidWorks Office
Professional and SolidWorks Office Premium by November.
Maximizing the power of 3D
SolidWorks software's ease of use and automation tools let
the TOTALGAZ engineering team easily customize designs to customer
specifications without increasing delivery time. "Our gas control stations
contain many pipes, fittings, gas regulators, and other standard parts that are
difficult to design without a proper 3D system, and the SolidWorks Routing
product included in SolidWorks Office Premium is the best tool to design
complicated pipe routes," said Gabriel Valcescu, technical director at TOTALGAZ
S.A. "SolidWorks helps us easily verify interferences and collisions
within control stations and eliminate design errors. Using PhotoWorks(TM)
rendering software, we have generated all the images needed for marketing
materials and product presentations, and with SolidWorks eDrawings(TM)
collaboration software we can e-mail 3D content to our customers even before
the product is released to manufacturing."
The TOTALGAZ team is also using COSMOSWorks(R) Designer to
test assemblies at various pressures and quickly apply changes by leveraging
the associativity between SolidWorks 3D models and COSMOSWorks design analysis
software.
"TOTALGAZ is a company that has fully harnessed the
power of software to automate design and analysis at every possible turn,"
said Michel Gros, SolidWorks Corporation's executive vice president of Europe.
"SolidWorks software's ease of use and COSMOS(R) integration promises to
reap dividends in time, cost, and productivity for decades to come."
TOTALGAZ relies on SolidWorks reseller CAD Works for ongoing
software training, implementation, and support.
About TOTALGAZ S.A.
TOTALGAZ is a market leader in the design, development, and
production of the complete range of gas regulators and control stations.
Headquartered in Iasi, Romania, TOTALGAZ is a dynamic company that enjoys a
solid reputation for providing large and small gas control products. Its
success continues outside Romania with TOTALGAZ installing its control stations
in the neighboring countries in Eastern Europe. For further information about
TOTALGAZ, visit www.TOTALGAZ.ro .
About CAD Works
CAD Works, with offices in four locations across Romania,
represents and supports SolidWorks and complementary FEA, CAM, and PDM
solutions provided by SolidWorks Gold Partners and Solution Partners. Since
1996, CAD Works has acted as a SolidWorks reseller and has provided
organizations with a total solution, including support, training, consulting
services, and API programming. For the latest news and information visit the
company's Web site at www.cadworks.ro .
About SolidWorks Corporation
SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. (Nasdaq:
DASTY, Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) company, develops and markets software
for mechanical design, analysis, and product data management. It is the #1
supplier of 3D mechanical design software for the mainstream market. SolidWorks
leads the market in number of users in production, customer satisfaction, and
revenue. For the latest news, information, or a live online demonstration,
visit the company's Web site ( www.solidworks.com ) or call 1-800-693-9000
(outside of North America, call +1-978-371-5000).
SolidWorks and PDMWorks are registered trademarks, and
eDrawings and PhotoWorks are trademarks of SolidWorks Corporation. COSMOS and
COSMOSWorks are registered trademarks of Structural Research and Analysis
Corporation. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective
owners. Copyright (c) 2005 SolidWorks Corporation
CONTACT: SolidWorks Corporation
Laura Kozikowski, 978-371-5077
laurak@solidworks.com
or
Beaupre & Co. Public Relations, Inc.
Darby Johnson, 603-559-5809
djohnson@beaupre.com
SOURCE: SolidWorks Corporation
