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Autodesk Case Study
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RND Automation & Engineering
LLC Concept to Reality Customer Success Story Autodesk® Inventor® RND Automation & Engineering delivers top quality on time. Before Autodesk Inventor, the engineers would need to make assumptions and simplifications to the design or do lengthy hand calculations. Now they simply query properties such as the mass moment Image courtesy of RND Automation & Engineering LLC of inertia, and within minutes, they have the Project Summary When there isn’t an off-the-shelf solution for a man- The Solution “With Inventor we could simulate the motion of the figures they need. ufacturing process, RND Automation & Engineering robot and place the surrounding equipment such LLC steps in. Its experience with custom automa- that singularities could be avoided and the paths —Sean Dotson tion machinery encompasses over 15 years of work- optimized,” Dotson continues. “We were also able President ing with such leading manufacturers as Johnson & to reuse a pallet lifting design in several of the sta- RND Johnson, Coca-Cola, Proctor & Gamble, and Pepsi. tions. Some stations had to be slightly different, but Other fields in which RND succeeds include assem- being able to reuse a lion’s share of the parts saved bly, inspection, pharmaceutical processing, robotics, a lot of time.” and material-handling. Projects range in size from over $1 million automated work cells to semi-auto- Since adopting Autodesk Inventor, rework and matic operator-assisted devices small enough for a design mistakes have dropped drastically. Dotson table-top. says that now when the parts hit the manufacturing floor, a majority of the time they bolt together with RND’s motto is “Concept to Reality,” offering best- few issues. in-class quality and on-time custom machinery to clients. An excellent example of this is the custom- “We are also able to take much of the on-floor ized automated valve assembly machine it recently prototyping that used to be done and create digital completed. It was too complex a project for 2D soft- prototypes,” he adds. “With the tools Inventor gives ware, so armed with Autodesk® Inventor® software us, we can easily see when a linkage might bind or and Digital Prototyping, RND was able to: see if a plate will deflect too much.” • Design, engineer, test, and manufacture the Before Autodesk Inventor, Dotson says the machine in less than one year engineers would need to make assumptions and • Cut material waste by animating the machine’s simplifications to the design or do lengthy hand cal- robots in operation culations. Now they simply query properties such as the mass moment of inertia, and within minutes, • Minimize production downtime on the factory they have the figures they need. floor to only four days The Result The Challenge “Trying to make sense of it in 2D would have been “A major challenge involved simulating and very difficult,” says Dotson. The machine was optimizing the movement of the robots,” says Sean ready in less than a year, well ahead of estimations. Dotson, president of RND. “Also, the nature of Working in 2D it would have taken almost twice as this project was very time-consuming. We had to long to complete. The company also cut material find ways of reusing data to work as efficiently as waste and minimized production downtime signifi- possible.” cantly. “Plus, of course, it’s just more fun to design in Inventor,” concludes Dotson. For more information on Autodesk Inventor, visit www.autodesk.com/inventor. For more information on RND Automation, visit www.rndautomation.com. Autodesk, Autocad, Autodesk Inventor, and Inventor are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter product offerings and specifications at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear in this document. © 2009 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved.
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