Case Study: Van Raam achieves faster, lower-cost, and more agile bike design and production with SOLIDWORKS

How SOLIDWORKS is Assisting Van Raam’s Bike Builds

Van Raam, a Netherlands-based family business founded in 1984 that makes bikes and tricycles for the elderly and people with disabilities, faced mounting design complexity: a growing range of models, heavier user weights, and multiple production methods while still relying on paper-and-pen workflows. To modernize design and better meet customer needs, Van Raam adopted SolidWorks 3D design and simulation software.

Using SolidWorks, Van Raam moved parts and materials into a single 3D platform to simulate stresses, streamline complex assemblies, and reuse standard components for rapid new designs. The centralized database also links to suppliers and stockists, cutting design and supply-chain time, making the company far more reactive to customers and reducing production costs; Van Raam now plans to feed SolidWorks data directly into factory robots to further automate manufacturing.

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