Industrial machinery and heavy equipment Lanly

Industrial oven manufacturer designs better with

Product Solid Edge

Business challenges Create faster drying and curing processes Reduce unit costs Deliver machines on time Integrate control systems

Keys to success Transition from 2D to 3D design Evaluate new 3D CAD technologies Leverage the Solid Edge community

Results 3D design with synchronous With a background using 3D CAD systems Created new designs 7 times technology provides a major including Pro/ENGINEER® software, faster productivity boost SolidWorks® software and Solid Edge® Handled revisions 15- to software, Zimnoch led a nine-month evalu- 20-times faster Like many industrial machinery makers, ation of several systems and determined Increased efficiency/productiv- The Lanly Company (Lanly) has been using that Solid Edge possessed the best tech- ity by applying weekly design 2D computer-aided design (CAD) for nology to transition from 2D to 3D. tips from Solid Edge decades. Despite having access to 3D community modeling tools, Lanly’s drafters shied away That new way leverages synchronous tech- from due to its complexi- nology, a core component of Solid Edge ties. But a new way to design in 3D pro- from Siemens PLM Software. “CAD based vided a major productivity boost for the solely on history-based design confuses 2D industrial oven and furnace manufacturer. users; there are so many steps required. Solid Edge with synchronous technology “I knew what 3D could do for us,” says reduced the complexity of moving to 3D,” Steve Zimnoch, project manager at Lanly. Zimnoch says.

www.siemens.com/solidedge This board and insulation machine, designed by Lanly using Solid Edge, dries primer paint on ceiling tiles.

Using synchronous technology, Lanly reports that design revisions can be made 15-to-20-times faster than using traditional history-based CAD.

Lanly creates new machine designs from Demands for higher production, faster sys- standard structural steel parts. Using syn- tems, and tighter uniformity are conditions chronous technology, Lanly reports that met by the application of high-velocity design is 15- to 20-times faster than using heated air. This technology is often traditional history-based CAD. referred to as air impingement processing. Lanly is a leader in air oven technologies, Cleveland, Ohio-based Lanly, founded in and its mechanical engineers have devel- 1938, designs and builds industrial ovens, oped an efficient, high-velocity tube air industrial dryers, material handling equip- discharge duct system. This air impinge- ment, process control systems and custom ment system is used to speed drying and heat processing equipment. Lanly’s equip- curing. ment is used in many applications and “ CAD based solely on history- industries including aluminum, board and “The engineering of the 200- to based design confuses 2D insulation, ceramics, chemicals, coating 1200-degree high-velocity airflow in the users; there are so many processing, electrical, food processing, systems is very important. Our engineering steps required. Solid Edge investment casting, lamps, refractories, challenges are basically using the CAD with synchronous technol- rubber and plastics, steel heat treating and software to develop the structural steel ogy reduced the complexity textiles. Lanly’s core business attributes and the sheet metal conveyor systems and of moving to 3D.” include high-quality workmanship, reduc- equipment,” says Zimnoch. Steve Zimnoch ing unit costs, on-time machinery delivery, Project Manager faster drying and curing processes, and Lanly control system integration. 2D transition to 3D “When creating a part using synchronous “ The Solid Edge community is The use of 2D design techniques created technology, you’re only sketching the box a very, very useful tool for many design errors such as part interfer- and then extruding it. With ordered (his- us. It’s a very good tool for ences and outdated drawings after tory), you’re creating a sketch and then me to help educate everyone changes were made. “With 3D, now we you’re manipulating that. Synchronous else in our company.” have an assembly set of maybe 100 draw- technology is a lot more fluid and it allows Steve Zimnoch ings. That entire assembly drawing set gets you to go seven-times faster,” says Project Manager updated once you make your changes. In Zimnoch. Lanly solid modeling, you can actually see the interferences and where you can get When Lanly hires new designers, they find around those. Also the ease of creating it much easier to make changes to existing drawings allows you to put on more parts and assemblies because they don’t dimensional information so the fabrication have to spend time studying the feature of the parts can be completed faster and tree to determine how the models were more accurately,” says Zimnoch. originally built. In many cases, part and assembly models were created by design- 3D to better 3D, also a great move ers who had left the company. In 2011, Lanly found a new way to maxi- mize its 3D design productivity. Lanly “In history-based CAD, it would take you Lanly engineers have been began using Solid Edge in 2000, but in a maybe 15 or 20 minutes to go back and able to accelerate new limited way only for plant layouts. Once look at the history tree, and in synchro- designs, more quickly revise Lanly began using synchronous technol- nous technology it takes you maybe a existing models and achieve ogy, the rest of the designers who had minute to a minute-and-a-half to create better re-use of data created stayed with 2D AutoCAD moved very easily those same edits,” says Zimnoch. in other CAD systems. to 3D.

Zimnoch worked in history-based 3D CAD but switched to synchronous technology because “it’s so much easier and faster.” Lanly engineers have been able to acceler- A rendered CAD image and drawing of this Lanly metal ate new designs, revise existing models processing oven illustrates the faster, and achieve better re-use of data ease of creating drawings with created in other CAD systems. more dimensional information, History-only CAD systems use a feature- so the fabrication of parts can be completed faster and more based approach to creating and editing accurately. models, which requires a lot of preplan- ning time to take care of unforeseen changes that frequently arise. Conversely, history-free modeling is fast, but feature- less, with limited automated design capa- bility. Synchronous technology provides the best of both with highly automated features and dimensions that facilitate flexibility and near-instant performance. Another downside to just using history- based design, Zimnoch notes, occurs when a customer wants a part moved to a differ- ent location on a machine. “You would have to go back into the history tree and make those edits, which sometimes was very cumbersome. Now with synchronous technology, you can look at what the cus- tomer is asking and make an edit so that it fulfills what he has asked, without spend- ing time looking at what you had done to create that part,” he says.

Synchronous technology also helps Lanly efficiently re-use design data created with other CAD systems. For example, with oven equipment, Lanly uses many part models from vendor or third-party website Food moves from left to right in this pita chip snack dryer.

“ In history-based CAD, it would take you maybe 15 or 20 minutes to go back and look at the history tree, and in synchronous technology it takes you maybe a minute to a minute-and-a-half to create those same edits.”

Steve Zimnoch Project Manager Lanly

CAD assembly of a food processing oven designed by Lanly using the synchronous technology functionality of Solid Edge. Solutions/Services resources. “That allows us to pick up a Solid Edge sprocket or motor model and place them www.siemens.com/solidedge into our designs,” Zimnoch says. “If these ‘dumb’ featureless part models need to be rotated or moved – to place an electrical Customer’s primary business connection box on the other side of a The Lanly Company designs model, for example – it’s very difficult to and builds custom heat pro- do in an ordered history environment; cessing equipment for an practically impossible,” Zimnoch says. extensive range of industries. www.lanly.com “If you do it in synchronous technology, knowledge bases where people ask, share, you’re using and selecting the faces that read, search, learn and comment about you want to manipulate and you can make Solid Edge topics. Customer location changes. You’re not really changing the Cleveland, Ohio customer’s design or the vendor’s design – “The Solid Edge community is a very, very United States you’re changing just the components on useful tool for us,” Zimnoch says. “I just that vendor piece.” saw the blogs the other day on the use of the Alt key, for example. I’ll have a weekly Solid Edge community meeting with the rest of the design team Lanly leverages the advanced technologies and we’ll go over what I’ve found in the of Solid Edge and also the vast expertise of community and present that to them. It’s a the large and growing Solid Edge online very good tool for me to help educate community site. The Solid Edge commu- everyone else in our company.” nity is a set of forums, blogs and

“ With 3D, now we have an assembly set of maybe 100 drawings. That entire assembly drawing set gets updated once you make your changes. In solid modeling you can actually see the interferences and where you can get around those.”

Steve Zimnoch Project Manager Lanly

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