World's Leading Cement Plant Picks SolidWorks

The world's leading supplier of cement production technology, F.L. Smidth of Denmark (www.fls.com) selected SolidWorks® software (www.solidworks.com) as its 3D mechanical design standard because it will dramatically increase the company's engineering efficiency and productivity in designing cement-making equipment and plants.

"In our detailed evaluation, we clearly identified the benefits we would obtain with 3D," said Magnus Rimvall, F.L. Smidth's vice president of information technology. "Working in 3D with SolidWorks will significantly increase our efficiency by enabling us to design a machine once and then customize the design simply by feeding dimensions and other parameters into a template design."

The company is implementing 200 licenses of SolidWorks software for full production use in early 2005. SolidWorks will let engineers more quickly design products like kilns, mills, coolers, burners, and related electrical systems in three dimensions.

"F.L. Smidth is one of the world's most successful engineering organizations, and designing in 3D promises to make a huge, positive impact on engineering efficiency and productivity," said Jeff Ray, SolidWorks chief operating officer.

The engineers will work more efficiently by graphically conceptualizing products they are designing, avoiding errors caused by work that could be automated, detecting interference among parts and systems, and generating multiple designs from a single model.