Russian pipeline part producer expands product portfolio and wins new business

KONAR designs better with Solid Edge. Pipeline valve manufacturer reduces design time, compresses change management and improves supplier/customer collaboration. KONAR credited Solid Edge’s synchronous technology for its flexibility to edit and make ad-hoc modifications.

KONAR’s business strategy, which is aimed at attracting the leading oil and gas companies, necessitated a totally new approach to design preproduction, one of the most important areas of the company. After analyzing ways to improve this area of its operations, specialists at KONAR decided that the company needed to modernize its design technology, including introducing 3D-modeling, parametric design and a new generation of highly integrated computer-aided engineering (CAE) software.

“Working for oil and gas industry enterprises, we need to design products with a solution that utilizes a branched structure and complex geometry, as well as makes design re-use easy,” notes Yevgeny Bodrov, the head of the enterprise’s engineering center. “Upon completing a design, we have a large number of two-dimensional drawings, which are ineffective at visually presenting the final form of the product. Moreover, in making corrections, it’s very difficult to simultaneously change a large number of drawings using a 2D CAD system because, very often, changing small parts results in the need to change ten or more product components. There is no such problem using three-dimensional (3D) modeling, because the whole set of drawings is closely related to the 3D product model. Changing the model automatically changes the drawings.”

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Getting designs right with solid modeling - Solid Edge Case Study

Veeraja Industries provides filtration solutions for machining, bearing and rolling applications. The company’s 35 employees design, manufacture and install systems that filter and remove swarf from metalworking fluids. In addition to having supplied more than 20 central systems, the company also provides standard filtration equipment ranging from magnetic separators, paper band filters, upflow filters, vacuum filters and flat bed pressure filters. Its customers include the automobile manufacturers, Bajaj Auto and Tata Motors; automobile component manufacturers such as Gabriel, Bosch, Anurang, Endurance and Precision Camshafts; compressor  anufacturers; and steel rolling mills. Veeraja’s products reduce consumables and power consumption. They can fit into small spaces and accommodate tight budgets, without compromising quality.

Previously, the company’s engineers used a 2D CAD system to design the filtration systems, but this posed a number of problems that ultimately delayed the introduction of new products. For example, there were often fit or interference problems with a new product. This was because each component was drafted separately and the entire system could only be assembled in the imagination. It was also difficult to convey design concepts
to prospective customers using 2D drawings. And because bills of material (BOMs) were generated by hand from drawings, they could be inaccurate, which caused delays in getting materials.

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