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| “Our business relationship with VEST USA continues to be a positive and profitable venture for us. Utilizing MDTools has provided an intuitive and powerful software solution for BRCA, one which continues to evolve, continually develop, and be supported by very experienced people. Not only is VEST knowledgeable in software development, but they understand the fluid power business, and the challenges associated with hydraulic integrated circuit design. |
| Using MDTools, we have been able to cut our manifold block design times by 50% versus our previous CAD solution, and we look forward to leveraging even further the 3D Cad model by integrating their CAMit technologies in our Manufacturing processes moving forward. |
| Thanks to VEST, the future of manifold design and Manufacturing in a 3D environment has never look brighter.” |
Jim Lambert C.E.T.
Systems Design Manager
Hydraulic Business Unit
Bosch Rexroth Canada Corp |
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| “MDTools
from VEST USA is INAB’s choice for
manifold design and development. It allows
our designers to produce prototypes, in
a timely and cost effective manner, as
well as fine tune manifold systems to
meet the high demands our customers by
embedding the most potent features needed
in creating our hydraulic system solutions. |
| Having such powerful
tool that seamlessly integrates into our
3D CAD environment, made the software
easy for our designers to adopt and to
become the cornerstone of our everyday
product development.” |
Greg Lehman
Product Development Engineer
INAB Automation AB |
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| “Fritz Schur Energy has been using MDTools for design of hydraulic manifolds since 2007, and we are very satisfied with the application and VEST USA / Taunus-IT as suppliers. |
| In general we are saving up to 50% of the design time for the new manifolds thanks to easier overview and a huge library of standard cavities, and we have minimized the risk of design-errors thanks to the built-in design control functions in MDTools. |
| For us it’s a huge advantage that the application is running as an add-on to our existing CAD-software, which means that the users get along with the programme very fast. |
| Also VEST USA and Taunus-IT in Germany are always responding very fast, both in terms of sales and support, and we have an image of a very professional organisation with a high level of knowledge about hydraulic manifold design.” |
Robert B. Juul
Technical Project Engineer
Fritz Schur Energy AS, Denmark |
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"With the Hydraw system, |
I am now able to compare the drawing bill of material with the actual parts bill of material. Earlier, with autocad, I had to print the BOM from the system and compare line by line with my drawing that took 2 days at least and still prone for error. Now, it is a matter of minutes. |
Drawings are much cleaner and uniform as the same standard symbols are reused all the time. The drawings when printed are much cleaner and easy to understand and read. |
The item ID feature in V500 is way faster than V415- it now just takes 1-2 minutes. |
The integral database allows us to add specific information for each component. This place holder for the information is very useful." |
Sudhi Sirigere
Hydraulic Systems Engineer
Schramm, Inc. |
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Weidemann Hydraulik
GmbH
Success Story at Weidemann GmbH, Germany |
| “After initial
teething problems which have been resolved
by VEST within a few weeks time we are
now using the software, thanks to specific
enhancements, pretty smoothly for more
than 2 years. |
| Using MDTools the quality
of our designs have significantly improved.
Formerly we designed manifolds with 2D
AutoCAD and even the drawings always had
been checked by a second designer the
first block machined every now and then
ended as scrap, due to design errors.
Rectification work was frequently necessary.
Now, even though we completely eliminated
the checking by second designer, with
MDTools we reduced design errors to almost
zero. |
Beside increasing the
quality we now design 3 times faster.
And many blocks, particularly those with
many cartridges, can be designed more
compact and cost-effective thanks to the
3D shading of MDTools.
Exchanging 3D files when the manifold
has to fit on a machine part by far simplifies
coordination with customers compared to
the former 2D drawings. |
| Overall, MDTools has
changed the manifold design process in
a way we've seen 20 years ago when we
replaced the drawing board by CAD.” |
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Original German
version:
Anwenderbericht zu MDTools730 der Weidemann
GmbH |
“Nach ersten Anlaufschwierigkeiten,
die von VEST aber innerhalb weniger Wochen
beseitigt wurden, z.T. in Verbindung mit
für uns speziell konzipierten Anpassungen
und Erweiterungen, arbeiten wir seit mehr
als 2 Jahren weitestgehend problemlos
mit der Software. Die Konstruktionsqualität
ist durch den Einsatz von MDTools erheblich
verbessert worden. Bei früheren 2D-Konstruktionen
unter AutoCad kam es gelegentlich vor,
das trotz Kontrolle durch einen zweiten
Konstrukteur ein Block bei der erstfertigung
durch Konstruktionsfehler nicht verwendbar
war. Nacharbeiten waren relativ häufig.
Durch MDTools konnte die Kontrolle eingespart
werden, trotzdem treten so gut wie keine
konstruktionsbedingten Fehler mehr auf. |
| Die Konstruktionszeit
ist gegenüber 2D-CAD auf ca. 1/3
gesunken, bei besserer Qualität.
Viele Blöcke, speziell solche mit
vielen Patronenbohrungen, können
wegen der gegenüber 2D erheblich
vereinfachten Darstellung im 3D-Modell
deutlich kompakter und damit kostengünstiger
konstruiert werden. |
Die Abstimmung mit Kunden
erfolgt häufig durch den Austausch
von 3D-Dateien, was bei direkt an Maschinenelementen
angebauten Blöcken wesentlich einfacher
geht als der frühere Austausch von
2D Zeichnungen.
Insgesamt hat sich die Blockkonstruktion
durch den Einsatz von MDTools mindestens
so gewandelt, wie vor über 20 Jahren
durch den Ersatz des Reissbretts durch
ein CAD-System.” |
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"We are a company producing cartridge valves and manifolds, we were looking for an easy instrument to draw and save hydraulic schemes, make BOM of material, something fast and productive.
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I've been contacted by Hydraw team, I decided to try their product and thought it could work. |
I am using the software under Microsoft Visio (Hydraw unfortunately don't work with our cad system, CATIA). After 1 year of using I can say the software is user friendly, easy to understand and to use. |
Adding valves schemes and searching for products is easy, it is also possible to add other schemes to the library (thus making your own library). I don't use the online database of products because I always put our products in the scheme, but I think it can be a good functionality for other kind of companies. |
I am satisfied, if it was integrated in CATIA it would be perfect!." |
Carlo Molon
Design Manager
CBF Hydraulic Italy |
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