Case Study: Viking Range Corporation achieves faster product development and slashes ECN lead time with Dassault Systemes (CATIA & ENOVIA SmarTeam)

Cooking up culinary excellence with DS PLM

Viking Range Corporation, a maker of professional-quality home appliances, needed to accelerate innovation, shorten development cycles, harmonize engineering practices across multiple sites, and speed delivery of custom solutions. To meet these goals the company turned to Dassault Systemes’ DS PLM solutions, deploying CATIA for virtual design and an ENOVIA SmarTeam PLM system for global collaborative lifecycle management.

Dassault Systemes implemented a CATIA-based Cabinet Configurator that automates geometry and manufacturing documentation—raising output from about 5–7 items per day to roughly 50 and cutting cabinet design/build time by 50%—and deployed ENOVIA SmarTeam to automate engineering change (ECN) workflows, slashing ECN lead time from 25–30 days to 5–6 days (≈75% reduction), doubling monthly ECN throughput and eliminating roughly $250,000 in costs from outdated parts, while improving cross-site reuse and overall time to market.

Viking Range Corporation

Brian Waldrop

Chief Financial Officer