Case Study: Kemper accelerates drinking water valve design with SimScale

Kemper reduces design verification from 3 weeks to 1 day with SimScale

Kemper, a family-run market leader in valve and sanitary water system design, faced significant challenges in its product development process. Their legacy CAD-embedded CFD solution struggled to accurately model flow through nearly-closed valves with small gaps. Furthermore, simulation was tied to a single workstation, creating resource bottlenecks, and engineers spent hours manually cleaning CAD models. Each physical prototype for design verification took up to three weeks to produce, severely slowing innovation.

By implementing SimScale's cloud-native simulation platform, Kemper overcame these hurdles. The solution accurately resolved complex fluid flows, closely matching physical lab data, and handled complex CAD assemblies without extensive pre-processing. Most importantly, SimScale democratized simulation, making it available to non-experts from any laptop. This collapsed Kemper's design iteration time from three weeks to just one day, dramatically accelerating their development cycle and reducing reliance on costly physical prototypes.

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