Case Study - Hayward Tyler

Hayward Tyler, a leading producer of highly engineered motors and pump products, recently adopted SolidWorks as its integrated Computer Aided Engineering solution. The company had previously used Autodesk Inventor to supplement its 2D AutoCAD system but lack of compatibility with its 2D PDM system and poor support from its dealer at the time meant that Hayward Tyler had never managed to standardise on a 3D working methodology.

“We recognised that there were significant benefits to be had from utilising a complete 3D CAD system, but in order to fulfil this expectation, the technology had to be fully embraced and needed to provide benefits to all areas of the business, from R&D, product development, detailed design, sales support, manufacturing to aftersales,” explained Brian Millward Engineering & QA Manager, Hayward Tyler Engineered Products. “To complicate matters, our products encompass an enormous range of engineering disciplines including electro-magnetism, thermal, stress, fluid-dynamics, tribology, and vibration. The finished products consist of complex assemblies of parts manufactured by a myriad of manufacturing processes including casting, forging, moulding, extrusion, & CNC-machining.”

“It was essential to select a CAD system with integrated CAE tools that had the capability of meeting all of our requirements,” added Brian. “After a detailed assessment of the alternative vendors and software, the end choice came down to either extending the existing AutoCAD system and adding CAE tools from Ansys, or migrating to SolidWorks and SolidWorks Simulation.”

Based on in-house evaluations and previous knowledge and experience of several Hayward Tyler staff, the preferred technical solution was one based around SolidWorks, purchased through NT CADCAM.

SolidWorks now provides a fully integrated suite of programmes that covers all the design and engineering activities from CAD (3D and 2D) through all the appropriate engineering analyses to a controlled system that manages the output documentation and data. SolidWorks Simulation allows Hayward Tyler’s Engineers to optimise and verify components and assemblies that are subject to high stresses while complex fluid flows and thermal heat transfer within its motors and pumps can be analysed using SolidWorks Flow Simulation.

A total of 15 licences of SolidWorks Professional and networked licences of SolidWorks Simulation and SolidWorks Flow Simulation have now been purchased through NT CADCAM.

“Thanks to the excellent help and support from NT CADCAM, the system installation and initial training sessions have gone extremely well,” concludes Brian. “Key staff are already working on important design and analysis work, and the foundations are being laid to a new and improved way of working.”