Designs, calculations and validation on one platform

at Mecaplex

Develop and produce even better products with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

New technologies such as the 3DEXPERIENCE applications have been a decisive success factor for Mecaplex. The competition is usually bigger and often less expensive than the Swiss family business, established in 1948. Therefore, Mecaplex simply has to overstep the competition offer.

About the customer

About the customer

Mecaplex

Mecaplex is part of the Glas Trösch Group and is based in Grenchen, in the Swiss Canton of Solothurn. Core Mecaplex competencies include impact-resistant and heated cockpit glazing as well as sun-shielded and shatterproof indshields made of acrylic glass or polycarbonate.

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Business challenge

Business challenge

Market position

The competition is usually bigger and often less expensive than the Swiss family business.

Customer centricity

"We’re always looking for creative ways to fulfill the wishes of our customers."

Customer goals

Customer goals

Optimize design processes

  • make product know-how for current and future uses available throughout the enterprise.
  • freely and flexibly develop any shape, no matter how complex or extreme the drafts are
  • Designs, calculations and validation on one platform   

 

Documentation

  • Error-free, documented processes
  • Product-related information for audits

The 3DExperience platform allows us to make all product data and other intellectual property available to all staff members, which facilitates our work.

Daniel Reutimann
Head of Digital Design and Development

Mecaplex

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Approach

Approach

To remain a step ahead of the competition, Mecaplex had to optimize its design processes and make product know-how for current and future uses available throughout the enterprise.

Mecaplex opted in favor of the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform to drive its design, analysis and data management.

The engineers can design aircraft glazing in any range of shapes and complexity, and analyze their resistance to external influences such as strong winds, turbulences and extreme temperature fluctuations. Additionally, the entire product lifecycle intellectual property is saved.

All product-related information is available at the click of a button”, says Daniel Reutimann. For him it’s a decisive improvement: “Safety plays a crucial role in the aircraft industry, so we are audited frequently. Error-free, documented processes are a key factor. With the Dassault Systèmes applications, I no longer have to have to pull everything together from individual files – I have all the product information at my fingertips, projectoriented and up-to-date.”

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In a nutshell:

  • Entire product lifecycle intellectual property is saved
  • In implementing the 3DEXPERIENCE applications and in staff training Mecaplex relies on CENIT’s support.
  • CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA
  • DELMIA Machining for CNC programming and 3D simulation
  • The platform is used to validate all proposals including any required perforations, screw joints and adhesive connections, as well as the entire installation procedure and the necessary tools and NC programs.
3DEXPERIENCE Platform Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides manufacturing companies with a state-of-the-art web-based platform for innovation management, engineering, cross-company collaboration and business processes. Read more about
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Results and conclusion

Results and conclusion

Optimization

"The 3DS solutions help us develop and manufacture even better products.”

Future-oriented

"There’s so much potential in 3D. You don’t just display a product anymore: Your customers can experience the product as if it was right in front of them."

Innovation

"We’re just at the beginning – the great leap in development is still ahead.”

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