Case Study: Ardee Lighting Inc achieves 50% faster product design and doubled sales with SolidWorks

Ardee Lighting Inc - Customer Case Study

Ardee Lighting Inc, a maker of small-scale linear accent and display lighting for architectural and retail applications, needed a faster way to bring new products to market (about 30% of sales must come from new products). They found AutoCAD-based workflows time consuming and transitioned to SolidWorks, adopting SolidWorks Professional to speed design and improve documentation.

By moving from AutoCAD to SolidWorks Professional and using PhotoWorks renderings, Ardee Lighting reduced product design time by 50%, cut development costs by 25%, halved prototype errors, and doubled gross sales over six years — all enabled by SolidWorks.

Ardee Lighting Inc

Lee Ward

Design Engineering Manager