Case Study: RTS Wright Industries achieves 20% faster designs, 20% cost savings and 50% fewer errors with SolidWorks

Bringing a flexible robotic assembly platform to life with SolidWorks software

RTS Wright Industries, a manufacturer of automated robotic assembly systems for industries like semiconductor and automotive, needed to move beyond one-off 2D designs to a configurable, reusable platform. A customer request for SolidWorks deliverables pushed RTS to adopt SolidWorks 3D CAD software so it could create a standard, configurable assembly (the Viper 650) that had to fit a tight 650 mm envelope and accommodate roughly 600 components.

Using SolidWorks 3D CAD software, RTS leveraged dynamic assembly, configuration management, and mass-property tools to detect and resolve collisions, show multiple configurations for customers, and reuse subassemblies. The SolidWorks-based approach cut the design cycle from five months to four (20% reduction), lowered design costs by 20%, reduced design errors by 50%, and enabled RTS to introduce its first standardized assembly system.

RTS Wright Industries

Bill Parmentier

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer & Lead Designer