1. ANL Plastics uses PTC Creo Parametric to automate and integrate their design, engineering, and manufacturing processes for thermoformed packaging. 2. A-Z Formen-und Maschinenbau GmbH is a leading supplier of equipment to the global tire industry. They use PTC Creo to design molds and tools, and its associativity helps shorten programming times. 3. Team Penske was able to quickly design, manufacture, and deliver a new part for a NASCAR race thanks to PTC Creo and its NC and tooling solutions, meeting their midnight deadline.

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PTC Creo Parametric allows us to automate and integrate design, engineering and manufacturing.”
- Roderich Lemmens, Coördinator Product & Tool Design, ANL Plastics
Industry: Thermoforming
Region: Belgium
Products: PTC Creo Parametric, PTC Creo Advanced Assembly
Extension, PTC Creo Manufacturing Extensions
Company Description: Founded in 1938, ANL Plastics
develops and produces standard and custom thermoformed
packaging. ANL Plastics uses its technological experience, creativity,
and fully integrated production process to create environmentally
conscious solutions for new and existing market needs.
Company Showcase − ANL Plastics

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For over 75 years A-Z has been a leading supplier of high quality merchandise and service to
the global tire industry. In its German 15,000 m² production facility A-Z designs,
manufactures and produces tire molds and containers as per customer specification.
Furthermore A-Z produces self-developed hot blade cutters for plastics and rubber
processing, as well as special titanium equipment for the aerospace industry.
“PTC Creo can accomplish the most complex
design tasks and its associativity up to
manufacturing shortens programming times.”
“The clearly arranged and intuitive user interface
allows rapid integration of new employees. It also
enables casual users to operate the system
efficiently.”
Thomas Stangl, Director Research & Development
A-Z Formen- und Maschinenbau GmbH
A-Z cuts time in tool and mold construction using PTC Creo
and associative integrated NC solutions

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S o l u t i o n
• Update Pro/ENGINEER licenses to
PTC Creo with extension of seats to fully
benefit from improved user experience
and developments
• Gain productivity by automatically
creating and optimizing toolpaths using
standard and form tools from expansion
of NC tools
• Key-user update training; update
installation and user training by key-user
• Extended design capabilities using PTC
Creo Interactive Surface Design
Extension
I n i t i a t i v e s
• Optimize workflows and utilization of
latest software technology to flexibly
respond to future requirements
• Optimizing the adoption and processing
of complex geometry from customers
within their own CAD system
• Accelerating and improving further
processing of customer data for
manufacturing
• Ensuring compatibility with various
customer CAD systems (e.g.
SolidWorks, CATIA, Siemens NX)
R e s u l t s
• 10% time savings when using customer
data from other CAD systems
• Faster translation of CAD data to PTC
Creo and accelerated creation of NC
programs and tools using consistent
integrated CAM solutions. Time efforts
for data translation for tool design and
rework at design changes incurred with
conventional approaches could be
eliminated.
• Almost 50% less mouse clicks via the
new user interface in PTC Creo
A-Z cuts time in tool and mold construction using PTC Creo
and associative integrated NC solutions
For over 75 years A-Z has been a leading supplier of high quality
merchandise and service to the global tire industry. In its German 15,000 m²
production facility A-Z designs, manufactures and produces tire molds and
containers as per customer specification. Furthermore A-Z produces self-
developed hot blade cutters for plastics and rubber processing, as well as
special titanium equipment for the aerospace industry.

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Festo cuts delivery time up to 80% with PTC
Festo is a leading world-wide supplier of automation technology and the performance
leader in industrial training and education programs.
The company’s pneumatic and electric drive technology for factory and process
automation is used by over 300,000 customers in 176 countries.
“PTC products are the basis for us to automate the
process to design and produce customer specific
products. We introduced this new process in 2012
and have been able to cut overall delivery time by
80% and improve the service levels to these
customers.”
Dr.-Ing. Sören Wanke,
Head of production SF-RFA
“We can design, simulate, optimize, and prepare for
manufacture products in 3D in PTC Creo. This has
shortened our engineering processes enormously,
reduced our time-to-market, and strengthened our
competiveness.”
Dipl.-Ing. Marco Merche,
Key User, Digital Factory

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Festo cuts delivery time up to 80% with PTC
S o l u t i o n
• Standardized on PTC software across
all engineering and manufacturing sites
• Establish the 3D model as the basis for
all engineering processes. 2D drawings
became just a by-product
• Introduce an automated process for
customer specific products, from initial
product configuration to final
manufacturing
• Standardized on PTC Creo for design,
simulation, tools and fixture design, NC
simulation preparation, and NC
machining
I n i t i a t i v e s
Festo’s global engineering initiative is
‘Digital Production’, key goals are:
• Reduce the time to introduce new
products and updated products
• Deliver customer-specific solutions
faster
• Optimize product designs for shortest
production time and supplier cost.
• Reduce manual efforts by cross-linking
of production software systems
R e s u l t s
• All engineering and manufacturing sites
now have same PTC software
• Synergy effects across the teams by
using the same 3D model (including
tolerances) across design and
manufacturing
• Reduced the delivery time of customer
specific products by up to 80% in 2012
• Ability to fully verify production and
manufacturing processes by offline
simulation in PTC Creo
Festo is a leading world-wide supplier of automation technology and the performance
leader in industrial training and education programs.
The company’s pneumatic and electric drive technology for factory and process
automation is used by over 300,000 customers in 176 countries.

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One afternoon during the 2012 NASCAR season, a Team Manager called me with a request to
manufacture a new part and it needed to be at the airport by midnight. PTC Creo and PTC Creo NC
and Tooling Solutions enabled our engineers and machinists to quickly design, manufacture and deliver
the part on time.”
- Matt Gimbel, Production Manager, TEAM PENSKE
Industry: Professional Motorsports
Region: USA
Products: PTC Creo NC and Tooling
Company Description: Team Penske is a division
of Penske Corporation. This championship-winning race
team currently competes in INDYCAR, NASCAR and the
Australian V8 Supercar Series.
Company Showcase − PENSKE