Case Study: Withings achieves streamlined global design collaboration and $50K/year PDM savings with Onshape

Hybrid smartwatch pioneer relies on cloud-native Onshape to streamline collaboration between its globally distributed design teams

Withings, a Paris-based maker of hybrid smartwatches and other health devices (including the ScanWatch Horizon sold in 40+ countries), struggled with chaotic, file-based version control and slow collaboration between its 16 CAD users in France and manufacturing partners in Hong Kong and China. The manual process led to lost data, risky file overwrites, frequent travel to share files, and an unscalable workflow as product variants grew.

By switching to cloud-native Onshape — an integrated CAD + built‑in PDM platform with real-time edit history, Branching & Merging, and Multi‑Part Part Studios — Withings can instantly share the latest designs worldwide, revert to prior iterations, and run parallel design streams. The change cut deployment time from months to weeks, eliminated the manual PDM bottleneck, and delivered savings of about $65K in year one and roughly $50K annually thereafter, freeing engineers to focus on design.

Withings

Benoit Tucoulat

Head of Mechanics and Applied Science