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Delivering confidence and quality faster: Sotech’s adoption of Altair® SimSolid® aligns product output with client expectations closer than ever before

Meet Sotech

Established in 1982, Sotech is a leading designer and manufacturer of engineered metal rainscreen cladding and architectural fabrications, marketed as the Optima range.

Sotech’s team works closely with architects, installers and contractors to specify rainscreen cladding solutions appropriate for each individual project. Sotech provides expert advice on the system, materials and finishes, fire safety, sustainability, design and production.

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Brimmond accelerates FEA with Inventor Nastran; optimising design and engineering precision and meeting international compliance standards

Meet Brimmond

Brimmond is an engineering company that delivers innovative, integrated, and often bespoke solutions for any hydraulic, mechanical and electrical need. Brimmond’s specialist engineers evaluate each client’s requirements across the purchase, hire, repair, refurbishment or maintenance of engineered equipment. The most common sectors include energy, marine, defence, oil and gas, renewable and decommissioning.

From concept to design and through to manufacture, safety and ease of maintenance are prime considerations for Brimmond. Their engineering solutions are developed with the user in mind while also delivering a more cost effective, time efficient and safer package.

Every aspect of clients’ projects is carefully addressed, from space accessibility to operational integrity and time constraints. Brimmond supplies one of the largest marine cranes in Europe. Since the company's founding, they have provided equipment and services to a wide range of major projects, including the Queensferry Crossing. They have manufactured over 400 ATEX-approved hydraulic power units in the process.

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Altair® SimSolid® enables Mecon to slash its structural analysis time by 90%.

Meet Mecon

Founded in 1997, Mecon is an engineering design and fabrication company providing turnkey solutions for organisations in, among other sectors, the steel and mining industries in northern Sweden. The company is based across two locations, Luleå and Gällivare, also in northern Sweden.

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Craven Fawcett | How a 180-year-old company, manufacturing products you are likely to see every single day.

Craven Fawcett clay working machinery is exported throughout the world, successfully competing for international market share on the basis of design, build quality, and price.

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Symetri introduces Pentre Offshore Engineering to Altair SimSolid; achieving super-fast structural analysis in design

Pentre Offshore Engineering is part of the Pentre Group, formed in 1988 and now regarded as the leading manufacturer in Europe for reels, drums, spools, and ancillaries to the global wire and cable industry; any organisation involved in linear-wound products.

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BGB - Merging two standalone Vaults | Seamless data migration enables cross-team collaboration for BGB’s transatlantic engineering projects

The engineering solutions provider, BGB, was established in 1976 and has grown from initially manufacturing electrical brush gear to developing and manufacturing power and signal slip rings for wind turbine manufacturers globally.

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Advanced manufacturing in action: Freudenberg Sealing Technologies accelerates its tool-making processes.

For the team at Freudenberg Sealing Technologies (FST) to grow, they knew that there were inefficiencies in their existing processes, so they initially contacted Autodesk for support. This support involved training and post-processing creation.

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CAD upgrade in lightning quick time with CQi

NIS Limited is an engineering organisation providing bespoke, and pragmatic, design and manufacturing services to a range of clients across a broad range of markets. The services that NIS provides include aluminium welding, mechanical handling plant and equipment, nuclear glovebox containment, research and development test rigs, special purpose machines, automated assembly lines and cells, the integration, tooling and programming of robots, and fabrication.

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