Case Study: Forbes Marshall achieves 60–65% increase in design efficiency with Solid Edge

Using Solid Edge enables Forbes Marshall to concentrate on innovative new design work

Forbes Marshall, an award-winning Pune, India–based manufacturer of steam accessories and control instrumentation, was struggling with a legacy 2D drawing process that caused manual revision tracking, duplicate drawing numbers, supplier errors, component rework and delivery bottlenecks. To overcome these challenges the company selected Solid Edge (Siemens Digital Industries Software’s Solid Edge software) to migrate to a 3D design and PLM-driven workflow.

Using Solid Edge’s 3D modeling, built‑in data management and synchronous technology, Forbes Marshall implemented a common parts library, streamlined casting design and sped up drawing releases. Solid Edge helped increase design-engineer efficiency by 60–65%, virtually eliminate vendor mistakes from drawing issues, save about 150,000 rupees per month, improve design throughput and accelerate time-to-market and market share growth.

Forbes Marshall

Yashwant Rajeshirke

Senior Development Engineer R&D