Challenge

Develop a revolutionary automatic tire inflation technology that utilizes a wheel’s rotational motion to maintain optimal tire pressure, thereby solving the commercial trucking industry’s tire underinflation problem.

Solution

Implement integrated SOLIDWORKS product development solutions, including SOLIDWORKS Premium design, SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium analysis, SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation computational fluid dynamics analysis, SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional injection-molding simulation and analysis, and SOLIDWORKS Composer technical communication software.

Results

  • Increased design efficiency by 10 to 15 percent
  • Reduced time-to-tooling by 30 percent
  • Cut prototyping requirements in half
  • Improved recruiting of designers and engineers

Moving to SOLIDWORKS enabled us to ramp up development, which allowed us to get product on the road more quickly.

Brandon Richardson
Chief Technology Officer