Wish you all "Happy New Year 2014"

ZF Steering Gear: PTC Creo Inside India’s Automobiles

By GEOFF HEDGES | Published: NOV 26, 2013

ZF Steering Technically Supported by Adroitec Engineering Solutions Pvt Ltd on PTC's Solutions

If you’re familiar with hydraulics, you might already know about vane pumps. Patented in 1874, a vane pump mechanically spins a rotor (2), which moves vanes (or pushrods) that slide in and out of the rotor (3) in a body (1) as it turns. That motion creates a vacuum so that fluid is drawn into the empty spaces in the body. In the same motion, the rotor and vanes move the fluid to the outlet.

Engineers choose this type of pump when they want to ensure that fluid flows out in a steady stream, no matter how the pressure on the incoming liquid varies.

You find vane pumps in everything from coffee machines to aircraft flight instruments. But they’re most commonly found in automobiles and commercial vehicles, especially in the power steering. Vane pumps are driven off the car’s engine to create the pressure that allows a hydraulic cylinder to turn a vehicle’s road wheels.

As such, vane pumps are an important product for ZF Steering Gear (India), a company that calls itself “a pioneer in manufacture and supply of integral hydraulic power steering system.”

According to ZF Steering Gear’s website, a hydraulic steering system does more than make it easy to turn the wheels. It contributes to your safety and comfort as well. For example, a steering system can smooth out a drive over rough terrain and give you more control on the road. 

ZF Steering Gear uses PTC Creo to create its lightweight, compact pumps that are easy to adapt and mount. The company’s pumps must consume as little power as possible, work with variable intake pressure, and always supply a near constant oil flow, no matter the engine speed. Using vane pumps as part of a hydraulic system can also help save fuel, typically between 20% to 40%.

To make engineering more challenging, all those requirements may change from OEM to OEM. You’ll find ZF Steering Gear in dozens of the most popular commercial vehicles and car models in India, including names like:

• Ashok Leyland Ltd.
• Daimler India Ltd
• MAN-Force Trucks Pvt Ltd.
• Tata Motors Ltd.
• TAFE (Eicher Tractors Ltd.)
• Volvo India Pvt. Ltd.

You’ll also find them in Nepal, the Middle East, South Africa, and Bangladesh, in SUVs, off-road vehicles, heavy commercial vehicles, and numerous other applications.

PTC Creo ensures that ZF Steering Gear meets all these challenges with  state-of-the-art productivity tools that promote best practices in design while ensuring compliance within its industry and company standards.

To find out more about how PTC and PTC Creo is participating in India’s fast-growing economy, click here. To learn more about ZF Steering Gear India, and its commitment to innovating the future of automobiles in that country, check out this news report.

REF - See more at: http://creo.ptc.com/2013/11/26/zf-steering-gear-ptc-creo-inside-indias-automobiles/#sthash.b8lDnwcO.dpuf
ZF Steering Technically Supported by Adroitec Engineering Solutions Pvt Ltd on PTC's Solutions

IronCAD Releases the 2014 IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite

IronCAD Releases the 2014 IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite

Latest update to the IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite brings powerful
enhancements and new 3rd party integrations to customers.

ATLANTA, GA. November 19th, 2013 – IronCAD, LLC, the leading provider of design productivity solutions, today announced the release of the 2014 IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite (DCS). This new release delivers new productivity and collaboration capabilities that reduce the overall time in the design process and enhance data sharing among the thousands of companies and engineers worldwide using IronCAD’s Design Solutions.

The new 2014 IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite of products brings not only customer driven improvements in the design capabilities, but enhances the way customers can collaborate within design groups and with their customers. Users can share data between the IronCAD suite of products that can be leveraged at any level within an organization as well as online with the GrabCAD community and online customer projects. Using the integration with KeyShot, customers can quickly and clearly communicate designs in bid proposals and technical documentation shortening the collaboration cycle while delivering to customers’ expectations.

Key highlights provided in the IronCAD DCS 2014 include:

Delivering Productivity

• Intelligent Editing of Multiple Part Features: It’s common in design to make changes where multiple features that are on the same part or across different parts must adjust by the same amount. With the new capabilities added, users can simply select all the features to be changed and pull a single handle to perform the modification, reducing the need to build complex parametric relations.
• Simple Replication of Parts/Assemblies: Patterns and related features (i.e. links) are used throughout the design to create multiple features in various locations. Typically other parts will be generated to align to these feature locations. In the 2014 IronCAD DCS release, users will be presented with on drop options to replicate the parts/assemblies along these feature locations making it simple to rapidly place these objects in the proper location.
• Behavior Driven Activation of Features: Often users wish to define specific ways in which an object is modified when first applied as a feature or new object in a design. Now users can set specific handles on drop to be active allowing users the ability to directly input driving values. This reduces the time involved to edit features and provides a simpler way to set the desired default editing behaviors on objects.
• Automatic Constraint Connections on Drop: In some designs, it is required to define the way in which objects move in relation to other objects. New intelligent options have been added to automatically define these relationships at the time an object is dropped onto an existing object. A simple example would be an automatic coaxial constraint being applied to a fastener dropped into an existing hole location.
• Intelligent Sizing Handles: When sizing geometry, users may find it difficult to precisely modify the geometry to locations on other objects (such locations may be hard to reach by cursor location in the 3D environment) or they may not understand the rules that define how an object can resize to these locations. New behaviors have been added to allow intelligence to be defined on handles so that they can be quickly resized to these exact locations in other objects by a simple right-click command. Users can simply hit any point near the desired location and they are confident that geometry is precisely sized correctly.   
• Re-engineer with Ease from Existing Geometry Data Including Point Cloud Data: Facet based objects and scanned point cloud data is becoming a common utility in the re-engineering process. IronCAD Solutions support the import of these often extremely large data sets in an optimized working environment while providing quick creation tools to recreate geometry referring to this data.

Enhanced Collaboration and Sharing

• Fast, Easy, Accurate Visuals with KeyShot: Users can now quickly transfer and update designs directly into Keyshot to use theiraward winning rendering capabilities to quickly produce realistic visuals for communication in bidding, final presentation, and technical documentation of products.
• Online Collaboration and Sharing with GrabCAD: The IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite today provides real collaboration by enabling users to communicate design data seamlessly throughout their design process within their organization. The GrabCAD Integration is a natural extension for our solutions that offers customers the ability to directly share files and projects within their online design groups and with the GrabCAD community at a simple touch of a button.
• Direct Access to Components on TraceParts: Users typically require standard or purchased parts to be used in their designs. With the TraceParts integration, customers have access to hundreds of supplier catalogs and over 100 million CAD models and product datasheets suitable for the design, purchasing, manufacturing and maintenance processes.
• Live Design Modifications between Rhino and IRONCAD: IronCAD has had a long standing connection with Rhino to provide the ability to make use of Rhinos strong surfacing capabilities. User can edit design features from IRONCAD in Rhino that may require more complex surface alterations. These edits will be automatically update in IRONCAD while maintaining existing relations to these modified features. This capability has been extended to support the latest versions of both IRONCAD and Rhino giving user the most recent advances to create and edit their designs.
• Enhanced Process Between Design and Collaboration: IRONCAD COMPOSE is a free product that allows users to deliver their standard components in a lightweight and IP protected way that can be easily dragged and dropped together to automatically configure products. Often it may be necessary to make additional design changes to these configurations to meet customers’ requirements. Now users can load designs originally created by customers in COMPOSE into IRONCAD to automatically convert these to editable precise design geometry. This allows users the ability to make the desired design modifications easily on the customer configured files and quickly send the results back to the customer for validation.

In addition to these key improvements the 2014 DCS focused heavily on additional customer driven improvements and the quality and stability of the product. The 2014 DCS also includes the latest versions of ACIS™ & Parasolids™ modeling kernels, Techsoft 3D HOOPS™ Visualize Platform, and Spatial’s 3D Interop translators to provide seamless data translation with standard and native industry CAD formats.
The 2014 IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite is available for immediate download for via the IronCAD website at www.ironcad.com/download.

"IronCAD is committed to delivering true productivity through performance, flexibility, and collaboration and this release confirms our commitment." commented Cary O’Connor, IronCAD’s VP of Marketing, "Customer’s now have more power in the design making it faster to create, modify, and finish the design tasks. In addition, they can extend their collaboration with the many new enhancements and integrations to improve the communication process among their customers leading to higher customer satisfaction and shortened time to market.” he continued.

About IronCAD

Based in Atlanta, GA, IronCAD is a leading provider of 3D Design Productivity Solutions that deliver the highest levels of customer satisfaction and productivity. Solutions that can be used either standalone or as complementary collaboration solutions which can be used throughout the enterprise. Its flagship product IRONCAD has won many industry awards for its innovative technology and leads the industry in its ease of use and design productivity. IronCAD products are being used successfully by thousands of customers worldwide. For more information on IronCAD, call 1-800-339-7304 or visit www.ironcad.com.

Adroitec Hiring Sales & Technical Professionals

9th Nov 2013

Adroitec Engineering is hiring professionals in Sales & Technical roles for our CAD and PLM software groups.


Role 1 -  Sales Specialists :

The role involves sales of specialized 3D CAD and PLM solutions like PTC Creo and PTC Windchill.

Experience - 2- 4 years of experience

Min. Qualification - B.Tech with experience in Sales preferably in the same field of 3D  CAD or PLM sales.

Locations - Delhi & Chennai - Immediate.
Applications can also be sent for openings in Pune, Hyderabad & Coimbatore

Salary - As per industry norms & expertise


Role 2 - Technical Specialist - PTC Creo Suite

The role involves good hands on specialisation on PTC Creo / ProE suite of solutions esp around the Tool design area.

Experience - Min 4 years of experience

Min Qualification - B.Tech / M-Tech  with experience in working in any industrial application on 3D CAD or in a similar profile.

Locations - Delhi & Pune - Immediate

Salary - As per industry norms & expertise

Resumes to be sent to k.vandana@adroitecinfo.com clearly mentioning the Role for which the application is being made.


Our Website - http://www.adroitecengg.com/


 

Hero Cycles Reduces New Product Introduction Time by 30% with PTC Windchill & PTC Creo

Hero Cycles  started its business of manufacturing  bicycle spare parts in the year 1944.  Hero Cycle is the world’s largest manufacturers of bicycles, motorcycles spare parts and chains.

Over the years, they have tested and stabilised on PTC Products for their New Product Development. They recently took to upgrading their Windchill Intralink upgrade to manage their Creo 2.0 data. Adroitec team worked closely with them to upgrade their Windchill licenses.

They now experience a reduction in New Product introduction time by over 30%.

 

Redesigning the Wheel - the KTM Bike

Olaf Seger, an engineer at KTM, just reinvented the wheel.

That is, he designed a new wheel for the 2013 KTM 690 Duke, a powerful single-cylinder motorcycle used in racing and road riding.

“The KTM 690 wheel introduces a new generation to the product line,” says Seger.  “Going forward, KTM will use these wheels on many of its new models.” The 2013 design is strong as ever. But visibly, you can see that the familiar 5-spoke design has been replaced with a less traditional configuration, a lighter one.

Previous KTM wheel design (left) and 2013 wheel design (right)

That’s no small accomplishment in the world of racing bikes. In fact, Seger says that redesigning the wheel was one of the greatest challenges on the 2013 model. Even microscopic changes to the design had enormous effects on the life of a wheel as well as its performance. One wrong dimension, even a small one, and the whole component can fail–dangerously.

KTM Wheel design in PTC Creo

On the other hand, with a smart tweak here and there, you get a lighter responsive wheel that helps maximize power to weight, lower potential vibration, improve stability and drive fuel efficiency up.

Prohibitive Prototypes

As you might expect, the new wheels required a lot of testing. So much testing that prototyping would have become prohibitively expensive and delayed development by months. Fortunately, Seger had PTC Creo Simulate.

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“With PTC Creo Simulate, we save a lot of time because we can check within approximately an hour whether a design change was successful,” says Seger.

The design team can then repeat simulations easily, too. “If you set parameters accordingly, you don’t have to worry about ongoing design changes,” he says. “The program checks them automatically.”

Wheel Simulation with PTC Creo Simulate

With these frequent simulations, the team reduced expensive prototypes, experimented more, and ensured that they had created wheels that were both lightweight and would endure on the road for a very long time.

Detect Problems and Optimize Designs with PTC Creo

Changes Throughout

One of the biggest challenges to redesigning the wheels was synchronizing work with changes that were taking place in the rest of the bike. The seat, twin plug head, exhaust—nearly everything was reconsidered for this model. To help ensure that all those separate activities didn’t lead to conflicts, the KTM team used PTC Windchill data management.

“With PTC Windchill data management, we’re always up-to-date with the data and the work of the other engineers,” says Seger. The software helps engineers avoid mistakes, because “you usually realize pretty quickly what another engineer is currently working on, i.e., what his current design status is.”

Again, this saved KTM even more time during development.

“KTM would definitely not be able to put such good products on the market so quickly withoutPTC Creo, especially those products that draw heavily from the latest technological innovations.”

And Seger likes quick.

A lot.

“Well, it’s fantastic to ride the bike you’ve helped design yourself, where you know how it came about. Every time you ride it, you’re filled with pleasure.” 

Thank you Dear Customer !

We realize that the customers success is highly dependent on the efficient usage of their software.

In order to ensure that customers are able to use their software effectively, Adroitec developed a dedicated department catering to

1. Online Support , Tips & Tricks
2. Online troubleshooting
3. Field Consulting & Support

We are glad that the customers appreciated the above steps.

During the hard times that all of us are in, where every rupee spent by the customer is measured, Adroitec's Support Team showed the maximum growth in revenue in the last quarter FY 13.

We thank Our Customers for placing faith in our "Technical Support" and we look forward to the same support in the future. 

Wish you a Happy Deepavali ! 

PTC Award for Best Support Value Creation to Customer

Adroitec received the award for Best Support Value Creation to Customer from PTC. 

PTC's new tagline is Product & Service advantage and we are happy that as a PTC Partner, we have been able to articulate and implement the Service requirements of our customers.

The secret to being productive

The secret to being productive

May 2013

The business world is a hectic place. And people with larger workloads need to be busier to cope with the speed at which the world works – or do they?

A number of studies have shown that being very busy doesn’t necessarily mean being more productive. Surprisingly, the most productive people are often more relaxed than average performers. It all comes down to how high achievers spend their time, or simply said, make the most of it.

By understanding how these top performers spend their hours you can learn ways to be more productive – and possibly less busy – in your daily work.

Practice makes perfect

A study conducted among a group of violin students in the 1990s revealed some surprising insights into different work styles and their consequences.

The students, divided into “Average” and “Elite” players, seemed to spend the same amount of time practicing. Yet, clearly the latter group was developing faster than the former. So what gives?

Giving the students a series of in-depth interviews, the researchers then gave them diaries which divided each 24-hour period into 50-minute chunks, and sent them home to keep a careful log of how they spent their time.

It soon became clear that the difference was in how they spent their practice time. The Elite group was spending almost three times as many hours on concentrated deliberate practice, whereas the average players spread their work throughout the day.

From here, two simple definitions followed.

“Hard work,” consisting of concentrated attention to a given task, may be more rigorous, but you are able to complete it within a clearly defined set of time. This style of work provides you with a clear measure of progress and adds to motivation, since you can complete a task fully within a single time frame.

“Hard to do work,” on the other hand, is work that you complete with difficulty, because of poor time management, interruptions or simple procrastination. Because you need to continually shift your focus back to the task, it causes a false sense of busyness and wastes precious time. It’s also harder to measure clear progress, and inevitably adds up to worse results.

Adapting working style to the business world

These two work models can easily be understood in the context of your own daily work. Ever spent a day running around, jumping from one project to the next, where you seem to make very little headway? Clearly, how you apply your efforts and how you spread your workload has an effect on your performance.

With that in mind, here are a few tips for creating a more concentrated work style to enable better results and reduce false busyness.

Don’t break your hard work up over the day. This makes for more stress and less productivity. With that in mind, and considering that harder tasks will take more effort, it makes sense to prioritise. Put your strongest efforts into these tasks first, as your energy will naturally wane as the day carries on.

Be wary of multi-tasking. It loses its benefits when you jump from one project to the next, distracted by merely being busy with projects instead of getting them done. For best results, work hard at something in a sustained manner to get the best results.

Define your time on social networks. With a lot to do, it stands to reason that wasting time won’t help you. Again, the benefits of a phenomenon like social media quickly turn to obstacles if it isn’t wisely used. As with any task, set aside some time for it during the day. While you’re doing it, do only that. But don’t let it keep cutting into your productive hours.

Nothing beats efficiency. Learning new skills can help you do more work faster. For example, learning the ins and outs of your word processing program can help you edit or create documents faster and more effectively.

Make lists. Nothing beats the simple pleasure and sense of progress of ticking off items on a to-do list that shows how you’re dealing with your day.

The world won’t come to an end if you can’t do everything today

Often, the secret to doing a lot is to avoid doing too much. In a competitive work arena we often take on any and all tasks, assuming it is expected of us.

But completing three or four tasks perfectly counts more than taking on a dozen and half-completing them.

Remember, you’re only human. You have capacity, to a point. Don't take on something with a steep learning curve if you don't have the available resources. Don’t try and complete everything at once, and don’t sweat the small stuff. Rather, plan, prioritise and then commit. Your results will show for it.

Bid farewell to busyness

In the end, productivity is good, but false busyness is your enemy. Fight it with concentrated effort by doing one task at a time, with full focus, and doing it well.

By working this way, you’ll be much more relaxed about leaving a task, knowing you’ve done it properly, and then moving on to the next one

Ref :

http://h30458.www3.hp.com/apr/en/smb/1296220.html?jumpid=em_taw_IN_may13_xbu_2059850_hpgl_gb_1296220_0&DIMID=EMID:1175846708&DICID=null&OID=10065784&mrm=1-4BVUP

JNTU Design Contest Cadomania - Connaissance 2k13

Adroitec Gold partner with PTC participated in Connaissance 2k13, an event at the  Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) - Hyderabad. The event received an overwhelming response  with close to 1000 + students turning up to attend and participate in different events.

Adroitec along with PTC conducted a Design Contest "Creo 2.0 Design Contest: Cadomania". The contest got a good response from aspiring engineers. 68 participated and 30 qualified for the final rounds. We distributed 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes to students with good acumen in 2D/3D designing. The prizes were Certificates and 6 Months of free licenses of Creo 2.0. We also gave participation certificates and qualifying certificates to the students.

Mr Sunil Maheshwari, Mr. Vinayak Bhandarkar, Mr. Mahesh Kumar and Mr. Murali Krishna represented from Adroitec and Mr Sudhakar and Ms. Kavita represented from PTC in the event. Ms. Kavita has also given a presentation about PTC and Creo Educational Programs. We conducted a small quiz at the end of our presentation, and goodies were distributed to the students who answered the questions correctly. There was an overwhelming response from the students and the students were very enthusiastic to know about Creo 2.0 and the career options.

Thanks & Regards,

MuraliKirshna,

Marketing Department,

www.adroitecengg.com

"Adroitecian" Cross 50K hits on youtube

One of the videos created by Adroitec Madhavan has crossed over 50,000 hits on youtube.

In fact a few other people on youtube have created similar videos taking this as an inspiration !

Watch - Enjoy and Share !

Swami Vivekananda's 150th Jayanti celebrations at Adroitec

This is the year we are celebrating 150th year of Swami Vivekananda's Jayanthi, We also had the opportunity and privilege to celebrate the occasion in our Hyderabad office.

By the time, we stepped into the office, the whole office was decorated by our Yuvajans with the kites ( on the occasion of Makara Sankranti) and the posters with the quotes and pictures of Swami Vivekananda for celebrating his Jayanthi.

The lamp was lighted by Sri Ayush. Then we all gathered for a small discussion on sharing Swami Vivekananda's thoughts and ideas. Each one of us had an opportunity to share our thoughts about him what we have been learning all these days. Sri Bhoga Rao , Associate Vice President,e-Biz Inc shared his thoughts on the occasion. After the discussion, all of us offered him the flowers. 

We have started a library & a study circle on this occasion.
Scribe - Vandana