The typical challenges in designing and manufacturing a tablet involved manual processing of repetitive tasks which directly affects the engineering productivity. Apart from consuming exponentially more time, manually designing tablets resulted in higher risk of design error. Our client Pacific Tools Pvt.Limited decided to implement a design automation as SolidWorks Add-in for supporting their engineering team to design the tablets at a faster rate of production.
Client Description
The client is an established biopharmaceutical company in India. The company develops and produces medicines and vaccines for a wide range of medical disciplines.The company’s products are sold in over 120 countries across the globe.
Business Challenge
The typical challenges in designing and manufacturing a tablet involved manual processing of repetitive tasks which directly affects the engineering productivity. Apart from consuming exponentially more time, manually designing tablets resulted in higher risk of design error.
Solution
Trikonic came up with an application specifically focused to serve the industries such as tablet and die-punch manufacturing. Our application enables the user to create tablets of various shapes with different crown options and all types of break lines along with text engraving.
Highlights
With this application, the client can efficiently:
- Design different shapes of tablets including Circular, Oval, Capsule, Triangle, Hexagon, etc.
- Automate breakline design with 7 different options.
- Create different crown type options like concave, double concave, bevel and bevel concave.
- Generate Standard drawing views, Section views, Detailed views and Automated Dimensioning.
Conclusion
After Partnering with Trikonic, the client saw an almost immediate increase in quality, efficiency and accuracy. Automation of repetitive tasks improved engineering productivity by 40%. Our innovative tool minimized costs and engineering efforts, and also enabled the client to scale up comfortably.