Case Study: Pyga Industries achieves faster design cycles and improved bike performance with Solid Edge

Pyga Industries improves performance and reduces time-to-market with Solid Edge

Pyga Industries, a small South African high-performance bicycle maker, needed to move from conventional aluminum to carbon composite frames while reducing prototyping time and improving factory communication. The company’s previous CAD tools made scaling frames and editing imported models slow and cumbersome, so Pyga selected Solid Edge 3D CAD from Siemens PLM Software to address these design and productivity challenges.

Using Solid Edge’s parametric and synchronous modeling, Pyga implemented top‑down assembly sketches, linked part interfaces and advanced surfacing to create complex, kinematically accurate and attractive frames. Solid Edge helped cut new frame design time from three–four months to two‑and‑a‑half–three months, reduced late‑stage design changes from a day to one–three hours, and accelerated prototyping and time‑to‑market.

Pyga Industries

Patrick Morewood

Owner/Director