USSC Group and COSMOS put their customers in the driver's seat

Company USSC Group, Inc. Industry Automotive / Transportation Location U.S.A. Product Used COSMOSDesignSTAR Type of Analysis Linear Static More Details

The Challenge
USSC Group, located in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, designs, engineers, and manufactures "operator and cab-oriented" products. In addition to driver's seats, its product line includes window sashes, solar screens, armrest controls, and specialty accessories. The company's vision is to become a world-class provider of products to the transportation industry through a consistently superior understanding of customers' needs and consistently superior product quality.

USSC Group Inc. is revamping its work processes to decrease the cycle time for its products. The company recently shifted from 2D drawing to solid modeling as a way of shrinking the interval between the receipt of an order to the production of drawings and a bill of materials.

The Solution
The shift to solid modeling is a vital transition to USSC Group's re-engineering strategy for several reasons, according to Ilya Zhivkovich, quality and engineering manager at the company. First, it is faster to model a component as a solid object, as opposed to creating a component as a 2D line drawing. Second, it is easier to combine 400 to 500 individual seat components into an assembly with a solid modeler. Third, having a solid model of the entire assembly lessens the need for prototypes. Solid Edge and COSMOSDesignSTAR was an ideal choice in making this transition to solid modeling and analysis.

The availability of a low-cost, Windows-based solid modeler and analysis package has really improved how USSC Group does business. USSC is now able to provide quality products in a shorter amount of time.

Summary and Metrics:

• Reduced design time
• Accurately predicted real world behavior of the model