Case Study: Amphenol Fiber Optic Products achieves real-time global CAD collaboration and significant cost & IT savings with Onshape

Leading developer of fiber optics relies on cloud-native Onshape for real-time CAD collaboration between globally distributed R&D teams

Amphenol Fiber Optic Products, a division of Amphenol and a leading supplier of fiber‑optic connectivity for data centers, IT/datacom, medical devices and mobile networks, needed a better way to track design changes and coordinate work across engineering teams in the U.S., Mexico, China and Vietnam. Their legacy CAD workflows caused communication delays, version‑control problems and significant IT overhead that hindered global collaboration and slowed product development.

They adopted Onshape, a cloud‑native SaaS platform that combines CAD with built‑in PDM, real‑time collaboration and enterprise analytics. The platform enabled instant, synchronized editing with full edit history, eliminated file‑sharing/version issues, reduced IT maintenance, and delivered real‑time dashboards to spot bottlenecks; Amphenol also realized $80,000–$120,000 in upfront savings by getting CAD and PDM for roughly the price they had been paying for CAD alone.

Amphenol Fiber Optic Products

Kenneth Capozzi

Global Director of Engineering