Case Study: ECCO Group cuts assembly time in half and optimizes plastic-part production with SolidWorks

ECCO - Customer Case Study

ECCO Group, based in Boise, Idaho and the world’s largest maker of emergency warning products (back‑up alarms and amber warning lights) for commercial vehicles, faced the challenge of taking their plastic parts to a new level—making them more durable, easier to produce, safer and eliminating extra production steps for customizable light bars. To address this, ECCO adopted SolidWorks tools, notably SolidWorks Plastics (and used SolidWorks Simulation) to better predict molding behavior and refine designs.

Using SolidWorks Plastics to simulate tooling and SolidWorks Simulation to validate designs, SolidWorks helped ECCO optimize plastics for aesthetics, functionality and easier assembly. The results included a measurable productivity gain—assembly time for one product was cut in half—along with fewer manufacturing steps, improved part durability and greater confidence in how parts behave in tooling thanks to SolidWorks.

ECCO

Todd Mansfield

Director of Engineering