Case Study: White Electronic Designs Corporation achieves 35% shorter product design cycles with SolidWorks

Illuminating Enhanced Flat-panel Display Design With SolidWorks Premium

White Electronic Designs Corporation’s Display Systems Division (WEDC) needed greater productivity, agility, and clearer vendor communication to handle tightly packaged, custom flat-panel LCD designs. Engineers found their legacy CAD tools (Autodesk Inventor and CADKEY) forced repeated remodeling and time-consuming file conversions, so WEDC evaluated alternatives and selected SolidWorks, implementing the SolidWorks Premium suite to address visualization, sheet‑metal design, and data management gaps.

Using SolidWorks Premium — including integrated SolidWorks PDM, sheet‑metal tools, configuration capabilities, and visualization apps — WEDC sped product development, cutting design cycles by 35% (meeting a seven‑week deadline for the “Arago” monitor), eliminating redundant redraws, and improving product design data management and design communications. SolidWorks’ section views, configurable models, and eDrawings/PhotoWorks outputs directly reduced rework and enhanced vendor/customer collaboration, delivering measurable time and productivity gains.

White Electronic Designs Corporation

Andrew Robinson

Associate Mechanical Engineer