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Hyundai Rotem Improving productivity and reducing costs with

Overview

Challenge Korean industry leader 3DVIA Virtools for interference Efforts by Hyundai Rotem engineers to A subsidiary of the Hyundai Motor Group, checking and simulation review 3D designs of the company’s Hyundai Rotem is a global leader Hyundai Rotem implemented railroad and defense plants were representing Korea in the railroad, Dassault Systèmes 3DVIA Virtools to help hampered by the size of the data files. defense, plant and environmental its engineers search and review the huge industries for more than 40 years. Hyundai amounts of 3D data related to existing or Solution Rotem’s 3,800 employees, including 700 proposed plant layouts. Hyundai Rotem’s R&D professionals, develop and other 3D visualization solutions did not Hyundai Rotem adopted 3DVIA manufacture products ranging from high allow its engineers to effectively check for Virtools to accelerate interference speed electric and magnetic levitation interference, which can arise when new checking and decision-making using trains to a 5400-ton transfer crane and equipment is added near existing light, 3D models. military ground vehicles such as K1 tanks. installations.

Benefits Hyundai Rotem is pressing ahead with the Hyundai Rotem chose 3DVIA Virtools for With 3DVIA Virtools, Hyundai Rotem development of advanced products such its powerful interactive reviewing and simulation capabilities. The company uses has optimized virtual facility layout as the magnetic levitation train to help it expand into areas that cover electrical 3DVIA Virtools to optimize facility and and material flow using less railroad devices, signaling systems, material layout as well as to evaluate the expensive, lower capacity hardware. advanced logistics equipment and flow of materials. The latter is needed to integrated turnkey engineering projects. minimize downstream problems in plant The company is involved in a number of construction in areas such as vehicle large scale projects and actively fitting, painting, vehicle body flow and participating in Korea’s national railroad process layout design. and defense projects.

“With 3DVIA Virtools, we no longer need to purchase powerful and expensive workstations to manage our data. Our productivity has also improved thanks to faster data access and review time.” H. J. Koo Senior Researcher Hyundai Rotem “The 3DVIA product line is extremely Planned interface with other flexible and can be used for a variety of simulation systems applications,” said ByungHae Park, Hyundai Rotem plans to interface manager of the Press Design and 3DVIA Virtools with its own material flow Engineering Team at Hyundai Rotem. simulation program. The goal is to boost “This is demonstrated in our day to day the strength of the flow simulation program “The 3DVIA product line is applications and many of our prospects using 3DVIA Virtools’ powerful VR extremely flexible and can be ask to see how we have implemented technology. This will provide users with a used for a variety of applications. 3DVIA Virtools.” single user interface and improve decision This is demonstrated in our day to making by allowing anyone to easily view day applications and many of our Easy manipulation of 3D data the overall layout of a plant. prospects ask to see how we The large amount of detail in a plant and have implemented 3DVIA Virtools. the quantity of associated 3D data Hyundai Rotem also has plans to use Thanks to the imagination and generated made it difficult for Hyundai 3DVIA Virtools in its Plant Business Group creativity of our engineers, we are Rotem to make virtual inspections without (PBG). Currently, the PBG uses CATIA to maximizing our use of powerful hardware. By introducing digitally pre-assemble the automobile 3DVIA Virtools every day.” 3DVIA Virtools and its 3DXML format, the production facility, including the press company significantly reduced the volume station. The volume of CATIA data Byung Hae Park and the size of its 3D data without CATIA generated for these virtual facilities is Manager Press Design and Engineering Team data loss. approximately 5 GB. The use of 3DXML Hyundai Rotem will result in a significant reduction in the As a result, review of 3D plant design data volume of data -- by a factor of up to 100. is now possible using less expensive, low capacity hardware. For example, the quantity of data related to a seat assembly line representing 1 GB was reduced to 10 MB.

“With 3DVIA Virtools, we no longer need to purchase powerful and expensive workstations to manage our data,” said HJ Koo, senior researcher, Hyundai Rotem. “Our productivity has also improved thanks to faster data access and review time.”

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