Case Study: Petrak Industries achieves 5-week design time savings with Onshape

Petrak Industries - Customer Case Study

Petrak Industries is a small, family‑owned Illinois firm that designs modular, skid‑based process systems for diverse industries—from cooling systems for proton‑therapy equipment to automated chemical drum decanters. Facing frequent CAD instability and time lost to SOLIDWORKS/Windows compatibility issues, the team also needed a faster way to share complex, in‑progress designs when a major oil company’s R&D group required frequent partial reviews on a tight schedule.

Petrak adopted Onshape alongside SOLIDWORKS and used Onshape’s instant, browser‑based sharing so stakeholders could view, comment or edit models without installing software. The real‑time collaboration cut review cycles, allowed fabrication to start earlier, simplified access control, and saved roughly five weeks of design time.

Petrak Industries

Brian Joffe

Systems Engineer