Case Study: Ideum achieves 50% faster development and 90% less rework with SOLIDWORKS

Advancing Interactive Table and Wall Display Development With Solidworks Solutions

Ideum, a developer-turned-manufacturer of large-format interactive multitouch tables and wall displays for museums and other high-traffic environments, needed a more robust development platform to accelerate product development, reduce data-translation errors, and streamline manufacturing. The company standardized on SolidWorks, deploying SOLIDWORKS Professional and SOLIDWORKS Premium for design, simulation, and photorealistic rendering to better communicate with fabricators and clients.

Using SolidWorks’ parametric design, sheet‑metal, weldment, FEA simulation and PhotoView 360 tools, Ideum shortened design cycles (custom products by 50%, standard products by 25%), cut rework by 90%, reduced prototyping needs (custom by half, standard by two‑thirds), and trimmed the typical design cycle from 16 to under 12 weeks—saving at least 160 man‑hours on a single project, boosting throughput by 30–40% and achieving ROI after two projects.

Ideum

Jim Spadaccini

Creative Director and CEO