Case Study: Xerox reduces physical prototypes and accelerates time-to-market with ANSYS simulation

Xerox - Customer Case Study

Xerox sought to move beyond office copiers into the commercial printing market by developing the iGen3, a toner-based digital press capable of 100 pages per minute with offset-like image quality and variable-data capability. The engineering challenge was immense: thousands of interconnected parts had to perform reliably at high speed and the program needed rapid development to hit a narrow market window. Xerox partnered with ANSYS, employing ANSYS DesignSpace and ANSYS Structural to support a simulation-based, up-front design approach.

ANSYS tools enabled engineers to import I-DEAS geometry, automatically recognize bonded contacts (such as welds), and quickly evaluate structural deflection and weld stresses across assemblies, avoiding the manual model-building required by other packages. By using ANSYS, Xerox reduced the number of late-stage physical prototyping cycles—each of which could cost tens of thousands of dollars and weeks of time—shortened development time and costs, launched the iGen3 on schedule, and achieved strong sales that grew top-line revenue and market share.

Xerox

Korhan Sevenler

Director, Product Lifecycle Management