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Breaking New Ground in Motorcycle Design with
COSMOSWorks™
Company
Wild West Motor
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Industry
Automotive / Transportation |
Location
U.S.A. |
Product Used
COSMOSWorks
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Type of Analysis
Linear Static |
More Details
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Wild West not only designs and builds
all of the chassis components in house, but all of
the tooling components used in the production process.
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The Challenge
The Wild West Motor Company designs and manufactures premium, hand-built,
custom-ordered motorcycles for the North American market. The company's
success in the highly competitive custom motorcycle market was predicated
on the development of top-of-the-line, revolutionary, new motorcycle
designs that not only stand out from mainstream motorcycles but also
other premium, custom motorcycle manufacturers.
Wild West Motor acquired the SolidWorks®
3D mechanical design system in 1999 to support its product development
initiatives, but the company's management soon realized they would need
a fast, easy, integrated design analysis package to address design challenges
quickly and cost-effectively.
The Solution
After evaluating available analysis solutions, Wild West Motor selected
COSMOSWorks analysis software because of its ease of use, powerful structural
analysis capabilities, assembly analysis functionality, and direct integration
with SolidWorks software, which enabled the company to avoid data transfer
issues entirely.
Since implementing COSMOSWorks, Wild
West Motor has dramatically reduced its design cycle, which allows the
company to investigate multiple design concepts, enhancing design innovation.
The company has seen its design cycle shrink from a year to just a couple
weeks, a decrease of 96 percent.
Summary and Metrics:
- Shortened design cycle by 96 percent.
- Eliminated prototype development costs.
- Fully validated product designs, including assemblies.
- Achieved greater design innovation.
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"Between
COSMOSWorks and SolidWorks, we have not built a prototype in
four years. We have enough confidence in the software that we
go straight from design to tooling, which makes product development
very affordable."
Paul D. Seiter,
President
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