Pig Configurator for Oil and Gas Pipeline Cleaning, Maintenance & Testing, USA

Client shared the needs for pipe cleaning equipment, types of Pig and brush drives, to be modeled and automate the designs to save time and costs. Based on it, the project team at Hitech, developed SolidWorks base frame models of parts and automate those using DriveWorks. Final CAD configurator was developed which delivered custom manufacturing drawings and BOMs for shop floor needs.

• Only basic design intelligence was incorporated in parent SolidWorks models so that all the other customized designs could be automated
• DriveWorks specialist captured the design intelligence and established equations amongst the dependent models for critical design knowledge and implemented design automation
• Using this configurator the customer could easily key-in their options for spares along with the main product
• Options for drawing notes of the Pig assembly parts were shared with the client to automatically update the drawings for shop floor also

By implementing design automation for the whole process, we empowered the manufacturer to eliminate the repetitive tasks and errors in design process. The client was also benefited by subtraction of manual calculation and could offer a range of design options at a fast pace.