Case Study: TH-Tools cuts production costs and improves design precision with Dassault Systèmes' CATIA

Competing with low-cost competitors with CATIA

TH-Tools, a Finland-based maker of high-precision tooling and production machinery, faced mounting pressure from lower-cost global competitors and needed to keep production costs down without sacrificing quality. To meet this challenge, TH-Tools adopted CATIA from Dassault Systemes (including CATIA V5 and CATIA PLM Express) for design, manufacturing and PLM to support its focus on precision, long-lived machines and timely delivery.

Dassault Systemes’ CATIA solution let TH-Tools design in context of full digital mock-ups, run early virtual interference checks, and use multi-axis surface machining workflows (with tailored post-processing), which increased design precision and avoided time-consuming late redesigns. As a result, TH-Tools achieved higher component quality, fewer downstream assembly problems that can delay deliveries, lower production costs and improved data management and part sharing across its sites through CATIA PLM Express.

TH-Tools

Jari Saaranen

CEO