SolidWorks Case Study | Fugro Seacore

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About Fugro Seacore

Established in 1976, Fugro Seacore is at the very top of an industry where skill and experience count for everything. It is a specialist marine drilling contractor, registered in the UK, working on projects all over the world.

Challenge

Previously using Inventor, Fugro Seacore embarked on rigorous testing to find a system that would reduce cost as well as streamline and speed up their design process. Their existing process, which relies heavily on analysis to ensure equipment is fail-safe, involved 6 different types of software. Key design challenges include building complex equipment that is ‘right first time,’ under tight deadlines, without prototypes.

Solution

Solid Solutions provided Fugro Seacore with a one-stop solution including SolidWorks, SolidWorks Simulation, SolidWorks Composer all securely controlled in SolidWorks Enterprise Product Data Management.

Weldment design and multibody features in particular were critical to cut design time by 25%. By using SolidWorks Simulation, the integrated analysis tool, within SolidWorks, Seacore can validate their designs instantly without the need to modify and convert the original model. SolidWorks Enterprise PDM allowed Seacore’s design team to better manage product data, share design information and automate workflow, all within one integrated system.

Results

Weldment design and multibody features in particular were critical to cut design time by 25%.
By using SolidWorks Simulation, the integrated analysis tool within SolidWorks, Seacore can validate their designs instantly without the need to modify and convert the original model.
SolidWorks Enterprise PDM allowed Seacore’s design team to better manage product data, share design information and automate workflow, all within one integrated system.

Company:
Fugro Seacore

URL
www.seacore.com/

Industry
Oil & Gas

Location
Falmouth, Cornwall

Products Used
Simulation (FEA/CFD), Enterprise PDM, SolidWorks Composer, SolidWorks CAD

Previous CAD
AutoDesk, Inventor