Case Study: Oiles America Corporation achieves accelerated mold optimization, extended tooling life and increased throughput with SolidWorks

Improving automotive component development with SolidWorks Premium

Oiles America Corporation, a supplier of maintenance‑free, oil‑less bearings and automotive components, needed better CAD support as it shifted to injection‑molded parts and modified production molds from its parent company. After encountering assembly and legacy‑data problems with Autodesk Inventor, Oiles evaluated several systems and chose SolidWorks Office Premium (now SolidWorks Premium) for its ease of use, mold‑design tools, data compatibility, and integration with PDMWorks and SolidWorks Simulation.

SolidWorks enabled Oiles to accelerate mold optimization by validating mold‑filling and stress behavior before cutting metal, improving tooling quality and extending tool lifecycles (for example, from 500,000 parts over five years to 1,000,000 over ten years). With SolidWorks, bill‑of‑materials accuracy rose to 96% from a prior 35% inaccuracy rate, quoting efficiency improved by 35% via integration with Excel, and the company achieved greater accuracy, higher throughput, and the capacity to support an expanding product line.

Oiles America Corporation

Jeff Read

Production Engineer