Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (MHI) is one of only three companies in the world that can develop and supply marine diesel engines. Therefore, it must meet the high reliability and durability of customers as well as the requirements of new international environmental regulations.
When it began to jointly develop a new diesel engine with Warssila Switzerland, the MHI Kobe plant was completely transplanted to the 3D design. In the past, the development of diesel engines required the production of 3,000 to 4,000 drawings, containing up to 20,000 parts, and the typical 2D design process took two and a half years. After transplanting to 3D design using Pro/ENGINEER, MHI Kobe Factory found that the product development cycle has been greatly shortened. The preloading of data browsing, parallel design and product development helped the Kobe plant to enrich its expertise and better meet customer needs.
MHI Kobe Factory uses PTC Pro/INTRALINK and its new process (for Pro/ENGINEER workgroup data management) to eliminate inconsistencies between parts. Compared to its previous 2D design process, using Pro/INTRALINK, MHI Kobe's design, casting, assembly and other groups can more easily share the correct version of Pro/ENGINEER data. In addition, since MHI Kobe began expanding its Pro/ENGINEER applications, he has also used PTC Global Services to improve the ability to use Pro/ENGINEER between engineering, operations teams and design partners.
“Pro/ENGINEER enables us to build a complete 3D design with all the required components. Now we can easily analyze and evaluate the entire model, successfully using 3D mode for conflict checking between multiple projects, even including pipelines, The picture and all other auxiliary components.†Nobuyuki Kunihiro, deputy head of the design department of the diesel engine department at MHI Kobe, said, “Ultimately, we reduced the number of drawings and improved the accuracy of the evaluation. The reduction in assembly workload reduced the number of failures by 50-60. %, achieving the goal of reducing development cycle time and cost. Moreover, by easily accessing CAD/CAM data, rework is reduced, processing and assembly efficiency is improved. This virtually eliminates the need for factory redrawing. Finally, we are in 3D Changes made in the design bring benefits to the company's compliance with environmental regulations and cost reductions."
The increased efficiency of the development process is not the only benefit of using 3D design. Customers can better understand Kobe's products through the realistic effects of Pro/ENGINEER 3D simulation. In this way, customer satisfaction is improved.
“We are very pleased to see that MHI Kobe has benefited from its Pro/ENGINEER investment,†said Josh Fredberg, vice president of product and market strategy at PTC. “Pro/ENGINEER continues to lead with its powerful modeling capabilities and ease of use. Market. For companies like MHI Kobe, this leading comprehensive capability not only supports its drastic shortening of the development cycle, but also increases its customer satisfaction."
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Company Profile
Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (MHI) is one of the world's leading manufacturers of heavy machinery. Its combined sales for fiscal year 2005 (as of March 31, 2006) was 2,792 billion yen. MHI's range of products and services focuses on shipbuilding, steel structures, power plants, chemical plants, environmental equipment, industrial and general machinery, aircraft, rockets and air conditioning systems.
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