3D layouts underline line competence

SOMIC devel­ops and pro­duces sophis­ti­cat­ed sec­ondary and end-of-line pack­ag­ing equip­ment. Its machines ensure that the goods of lead­ing com­pa­nies in the food, pet food, and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sec­tors are stack­able, trans­portable, stor­able, and easy to han­dle at retail. Cus­tomers par­tic­u­lar­ly appre­ci­ate the high lev­el of line exper­tise: the com­pa­ny’s experts have a com­pre­hen­sive under­stand­ing of how their machines can be inte­grat­ed into pro­duc­tion lines and spa­tial conditions.
The com­bi­na­tion of per­for­mance and func­tion­al require­ments, tech­ni­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions and struc­tur­al con­di­tions is the essen­tial fac­tor in the quo­ta­tion process. This not only results in the spec­i­fi­ca­tions of the machines — rather, the Group must also always find indi­vid­ual solu­tions for the plant lay­outs. Until now, these lay­out plans were imple­ment­ed in a 2D draw­ing pro­gram as a plan view and then repro­duced as a 3D lay­out in the Solid­works CAD sys­tem for the final order pre­sen­ta­tion to the cus­tomer — a time-con­sum­ing pro­ce­dure that was prone to errors due to the mul­ti­ple media discontinuities.
SOMIC turned to the Lino team to estab­lish con­sis­tent, auto­mat­ed quo­ta­tion process­es that would lead to attrac­tive order doc­u­ments that were mean­ing­ful to every­one much more quick­ly. Their soft­ware Lino 3D lay­out for 3D lay­out plan­ning and Tac­ton Design Automa­tion for rule-based con­fig­u­ra­tion are inte­grat­ed into Solid­works — and ensure a qual­i­ty leap there with­out media breaks: For exam­ple, all sys­tems access a cen­tral data basis for machines and com­po­nents. In this way, the set of rules pre­vents tech­ni­cal­ly prob­lem­at­ic vari­ants, and mod­i­fied mod­els are auto­mat­i­cal­ly avail­able to all future layouts.
In addi­tion, Lino 3D lay­out reports imme­di­ate­ly if dimen­sions do not match or struc­tur­al col­li­sions occur. SOMIC now clar­i­fies whether plant lay­outs can be reli­ably imple­ment­ed at a very ear­ly stage of the quo­ta­tion process. In addi­tion, Lino 3D lay­out sig­nif­i­cant­ly speeds up the lay­out plan­ning process, because the employ­ees insert objects into the lay­out using drag-and-drop — where they land direct­ly at the cor­rect inter­face thanks to snap technology.
As a result, they receive com­pre­hen­si­ble lay­outs that illus­trate all the nec­es­sary details from dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives. As an inter­ac­tive pre­sen­ta­tion with real­is­tic col­ors, sur­faces and logos, they are a great asset for SOMIC when talk­ing to customers.