Company
Our company was quickly outgrowing our SolidWorks licensing and stand alone seats simply didn’t make sense for us anymore. However, I was very skeptical about networked licensing. The Hawk Ridge team allowed me to come to their office, test drive the network license, and really get comfortable with what we were signing up for. The team is knowledgeable, flexible, and extremely responsive. You don’t always get to choose your software reseller, but if given a choice I would choose Hawk Ridge every time.
Industries
SolidWorks 3D Design Solutions are created to meet the specific needs of your industry - whether you are designing space lunar landing modules for NASA for perfecting sheet metal processes for your business. SolidWorks has the modularity and functionality to meet your needs. Find your industry, read about how SolidWorks is helping our engineers and management design better products. Ask any of our Certified SolidWorks Professioanals how we can help you in your business.
Aerospace
Depending on their job functions and industry roles, designers, engineers, managers, and manufacturers will cite differing factors as to what makes a better product. The answers, in short, are rooted in people’s perceptions—which, in turn, are influenced by their life experiences and unique sets of criteria. Read more about what SolidWorks can do for designers in the Aerospace Industry. Read more...
Automotive
Weldon Technologies, Inc., manufactures lighting and electrical control systems for specialty vehicles such as ambulances, fire trucks, and school buses. The company’s primary business has evolved over the last 30 years. Initially a school bus lighting manufacturer, Weldon’s warning lamps became the basis for standardized ambulance warning lamp systems, and the company has grown since then to become an innovative electronics supplier.
Faced with increasing competition and industry consolidation, Weldon needed to streamline its design process and deliver breakthrough products more rapidly without sacrificing quality or reliability, explains Weldon Vice President of Sales and Marketing Scott Weishaar. “It’s a tradition-bound industry. We need to be able to demonstrate that our new products are substantially better than what the customer already has,” Weishaar says. Read more...
Consumer Products
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (“Fender”) is a leading manufacturer of stringed instruments, including electric, acoustic, and bass guitars, as well as guitar amplifiers. Since the founding of its predecessor company in 1946 by “Leo” Fender, Fender has built a reputation for producing some of the world’s best-sounding and best-playing electric guitars. Fender’s Stratocaster® and Telecaster® guitar models have become rock-and-roll icons as the instruments of choice for such legendary guitarists as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and David Gilmour. Read more...
Energy, Plan and Process
The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) designs and builds sophisticated instrumentation—cameras, imagers, spectrographs, and optics packages—to support its observatories and to provide the best ground-based telescopes for astronomical research. The NOAO Instrument Projects Group is responsible for the development of all astronomical instrumentation and ancillary systems. The group’s most recent assignment involved the design of the Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph (GNIRS) in conjunction with the International Gemini Project, an initiative to explore the vast infrared-light-emitting reaches of space. GNIRS is needed to support one of two eight-meter telescopes—one in the northern hemisphere (Hawaii) and a second in the southern hemisphere (Chile)—that scan the heavens searching for objects emitting light in the infrared region. GNIRS is in service at Cerro Pachón, Chile. Read more...
Engineering Services
The days when mechanical systems and products were strictly mechanical are rapidly coming to a close as products continue to become more capable and more complex. To some degree, these increasingly sophisticated products are virtually guaranteed to employ “mechatronics.” Depending on the product industry, mechatronics can be defined in several different ways. Generally, mechatronics is the integration of electrical and electronic components into mechanical enclosures and/or mechanical subassemblies. Read more in the whitepaper...
High Tech/Electronics
Truly safeguarding your data, whether it contains business information, personal finances, or photos of your children, demands more than a simple backup to a standard external hard drive. What happens when scorching fire, damaging floodwaters, or earthquake tremors hit your home or business? Today, some of your most precious effects reside on a computer hard drive—files that can never be replaced—unless you back them up and store them elsewhere. ioSafe, Inc. set out to provide simple protection for the growing volume of valuable personal and business data by creating disaster-proof data storage devices for computers ranging from notebooks to enterprise data centers. Read more about how ioSafe is using SolidWorks to make a difference...
Industrial Design
Building plants and processing systems—or even an entire factory—in a global economy has become more challenging than ever. Competition is stiff and capital is tight, so the need to control costs, ensure quality, and speed delivery is critical to your success. Whether you develop individual components, equipment, processing systems, or complete plants, integrated 3D solutions can help you develop, coordinate, and deliver on-time and within budget. Read more about Industrial Design and SolidWorks....
Manufacturing
Product design does not occur in a vacuum—it has a significant impact on manufacturing. In fact, 3D design carries even greater potential for streamlining production processes, especially when you take advantage of Design for Manufacturability tools and applications. With these technologies, you can avoid the manufacturing delays, cost overruns, and shop-floor retrofits that work against your company’s success and competitive position. Read more about SolidWorks and Manufacturing in this 14 page Whitepaper...
Medical
To succeed in today’s medical device manufacturing industry, product designers must not only create innovative medical products but also navigate an increasingly challenging regulatory environment. SolidWorks® Premium software can help you meet this challenge. Powerful part definition and industrial design tools foster product innovation while integrated software prototyping and comprehensive design management capabilities support regulatory compliance. With SolidWorks software, you can quickly develop and analyze medical devices and components—and bring them to market faster. Read about the fast growing Medical Device field in the whitepaper, as well as learn what Bausch & Lomb are doing with SolidWorks to improve the design for their world class contact lenses.
Mold Design
How does a U.S.-based fabricator of foam cushioning products for the footwear industry succeed amid an onslaught of low-cost global competition? Remington Products Company overcame the challenges related to the flight of manufacturing to overseas suppliers by becoming more efficient, and expanding beyond its traditional OEM business as a supplier of footwear products.
The course the company ran to greater productivity and business expansion required a new product development solution. Remington Products needed to be faster, more innovative, and more responsive to develop successful lines of OEM and after-market products—in markets as new and varied as medical, sporting goods, military, industrial, apparel, packaging, automotive, electronic, and consumer products. Learn how Remington's engineering group sought out a 3D product development platform and found it with SolidWorks. Read more...
Oil & Gas
SolidWorks® CAD software provides a complete 3D product development solution for meeting the demands of today’s rapidly evolving oil and gas industry. With SolidWorks, engineers can more efficiently use 3D design data at every stage of the development process, realizing productivity gains and reduced costs across the board. From conceptual design and component selection through design validation and production, SolidWorks software provides the integrated tools that oil and gas engineers need to accelerate time-to-market, control development costs, improve product quality and innovation, and compete successfully. Read more...
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