Case Study: Centurion Systems achieves 66% faster time-to-market with SOLIDWORKS

Growing an access automation/control products manufacturing company with SOLIDWORKS Solutions

Centurion Systems, a Johannesburg-based manufacturer of gate automation and access control products sold in over 70 countries, needed to grow by streamlining development, improving efficiencies, and increasing innovation. To meet that challenge it adopted SolidWorks solutions—including SOLIDWORKS Standard and Premium, Plastics Professional, Visualize Professional, Composer, and PDM Professional—to move from 2D workflows to an integrated 3D product development platform.

SolidWorks delivered an integrated set of design, simulation, mold‑filling, rendering, documentation, and PDM tools that let Centurion validate designs earlier, eliminate prototyping iterations, and speed tooling and marketing. As a result Centurion shortened product time‑to‑market by about 66%, cut design cycles by 50–66%, eliminated two additional rounds of mold prototyping, and reduced design time 50–75% through design reuse.

Centurion Systems

Michael Blackman

R&D Mechanical Manager