Burder Industries, Australia

Burder Industries designs and manufactures materials handling equipment including front-end loaders, forklifts and trenchers. The company has over 5,000 unique designs and customises machinery for each client specification.

Challenges:

• 2D design environment required highly skilled designers to produce documents and drawings
• Shortcuts in previous 2D software resulted in design errors
• Keeping track of revisions to designs
• Skills shortages affecting number of skilled designers available

Benefits:

• SolidWorks 3D interface is very intuitive
• Errors caused by shortcuts and poor drawings in the 2D environment reduced by 80 per cent
• PDMWorks data management tracks design iterations and controls access to the vault
• Less skilled operators can be trained up to a high level of proficiency in a short space of time

“SolidWorks allows us to maintain the quality of our products no matter how transient our workforce becomes.”

Adam Fendyk
General Manager
Burder Industries
www.burder.com.au