Case Study: Reading Bakery Systems achieves a 63% productivity gain with Solid Edge

Reading Bakery Systems - Customer Case Study

Reading Bakery Systems, a U.S. manufacturer of high‑volume, highly customized baking equipment, needed to speed delivery and better control its growing body of design data. In 2003 the company replaced AutoCAD with Solid Edge software, including its built‑in Insight design management system, to gain easier solid modeling, stronger assembly and sheet‑metal capabilities, and improved information access and control.

Using Solid Edge and Insight, Reading Bakery Systems cut average design time per part from 3.2 hours to 1.2 hours (a 63% productivity gain), produced 2.7 Solid Edge drawings for every one AutoCAD drawing in the first year, and greatly increased reuse of trusted design data while virtually eliminating duplicate saves and overwritten files — measurable improvements that helped meet tight delivery deadlines.

Reading Bakery Systems

Michael Cox

Manager, Information Technology