Challenge

Improve collaboration and increase product development throughput while improving quality by eliminating communication errors with outsourced manufacturing partners and resolving product release delays associated with manufacturing defects and internal revision errors.

Solution

Implement 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS® Premium design software in concert with 3DEXPERIENCE® Works solutions on the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform, including Collaborative Industry Innovator and Collaborative Business Innovator.

Results

  • Shortened product development cycles by 20 percent
  • Reduced prototyping costs by 30 percent
  • Decreased defects related to revision errors by 20 percent
  • Improved collaboration and communication dramatically

Korea Semiconductor System (KOSES) was established in 1990 and has grown steadily ever since with the goal of expanding beyond the Korean market to become a global leader in the rapidly changing IT industry. Already a leading Korean information technology (IT) company, KOSES is on track to leap forward as a world-class advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment producer.

KOSES used AutoCAD® to develop its systems until 2014 when the company moved to SOLIDWORKS® 3D design for product development. SOLIDWORKS sparked productivity gains and the company’s initial growth spurt. However, the company faced growing pains regarding data management and collaboration challenges.

3DEXPERIENCE Works screenshot showing KOSES boundary condition


KOSES learned about 3DEXPERIENCE® Works solutions on the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform from its SOLIDWORKS reseller, Node DATA. “While we initially were interested in 3DEXPERIENCE Works collaboration and data management solutions, we also were excited to begin using 3DEXPERIENCE Works Simulation tools, which use the Abaqus® solver,” CTO Jung Jai-Lee recounts.

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It takes 40 percent less time to run vibration simulations in the cloud using Structural Performance Engineer versus outsourcing analysis...with 3DEXPERIENCE Works solutions, we have been able to shorten product development time overall by about 20 percent.

Jung Jai-Lee
Chief Technology Officer

Faster Product Development

KOSES used 3DEXPERIENCE Works solutions along with its existing SOLIDWORKS installation to dramatically shorten the product development cycle for its OffLoader.

KOSES had routinely outsourced their vibration analyses but now had the tools to conduct tests internally. “It takes 40 percent less time to run vibration simulations in the cloud using Structural Performance Engineer versus outsourcing analysis,” says Jai-Lee. “With 3DEXPERIENCE Works solutions, we have been able to shorten product development time overall by about 20 percent.”

KOSES 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation test results

 

Finishing Work in Record Time

In addition to shortening design cycles, implementing 3DEXPERIENCE Works solutions helps KOSES reduce development costs that extend beyond outsourced analysis fees. For example, a five-person development team using 3DEXPERIENCE Works solutions completed work on the OffLoader in record time, reducing costs substantially.

“Based on the fact that the application of 3DEXPERIENCE Works solutions has reduced the design cycle completed by a five-person development team by 10 days,” says Jung Jai-Lee. It’s expected to reduce the total development cost for the OffLoader by about 7 percent.”

 

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