Case Study: Hitachi Construction Truck Manufacturing speeds industrial design with Maplesoft Maple

Speeding the Industrial Design Process with Modern Calculation Management

Hitachi Construction Truck Manufacturing (HTM) needed a better way to manage the many calculations involved in developing high-performance rigid-frame hauling trucks. The company had been relying on spreadsheets, simulation software, and other disparate math tools, which created inefficiencies, hard-to-diagnose errors, and a lack of transparent calculation auditing. Vendor Maplesoft, using Maple, provided a modern calculation management approach to support HTM’s design and analysis work.

With Maplesoft’s Maple, HTM streamlined design calculations, enabled fully traceable analyses, and integrated calculations into auditable reports. The company also used Maple’s optimization features to improve truck performance and to generate better initial stress estimates before running time-consuming FEA, reducing analysis slowdowns and design errors. While no numeric metrics were given, Maplesoft helped HTM create a more stable, efficient, and reusable foundation for engineering calculations.

Hitachi Construction Truck Manufacturing

Shen

Senior Manager of the Technical Analysis Group