Case Study: Carlisle FoodService Products achieves faster, lower-cost in-house injection-mold development with SOLIDWORKS

Accelerating injection-molded product development with SOLIDWORKS® solutions.

Carlisle FoodService Products, a manufacturer of foodservice, sanitary, and healthcare equipment, faced increasing complexity in its injection-molded product development and needed to reduce cycle time, prototyping costs, and reliance on outside injection-molding consultants. To meet these challenges the company adopted SolidWorks 3D design and later implemented SOLIDWORKS Premium, SOLIDWORKS Plastics, and SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional.

Using SolidWorks Plastics to bring injection-molding simulation in-house and SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional to streamline workflows and revision control, Carlisle eliminated outsourced flow studies and accelerated mold development. The company projects roughly $20,000 in annual consulting cost savings, 12–15 weeks of time saved per year, reduced cycle times and prototype volumes, and improved development tracking and manufacturability validation.

Carlisle FoodService Products

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