Stuart Manufacturing, Australia

Stuart Manufacturing is Australia’s leading commercial ice making machine supplier Stuart’s competitive advantage comes through designing machines to perform in Australia’s unique conditions.

Challenges:

• Visualise component fitment to reduce assembly time
• Eliminate misalignment of mounting holes in sheetmetal panels
• Eliminate variance between suppliers of sheetmetal components, due to variance in bend allowances

SolidWorks Benefits:

• Virtual prototypes created to simplify fitment and assembly processes
• New design variations created in a fraction of the time taken previously
• Misalignment of holes eliminated
• Variance in sheetmetal panels eliminated

“Since we started using SolidWorks we have achieved a 15% reduction in machine assembly time.”

Chris Warncken
Director