Case Study: Steel-Smith achieves 50% faster design cycles and 40% lower development costs with SOLIDWORKS

Increasing toggle clamp development productivity with SOLIDWORKS® solutions

Steel-Smith, India’s largest manufacturer of toggle clamps, faced the need to improve design accuracy, shorten development cycles, and enhance design communications as it expanded its product line. To meet these challenges it moved from 2D tools to SolidWorks 3D solutions, seeking faster, more reliable product development and better ways to present designs to customers.

SolidWorks Professional, together with PhotoView 360, eDrawings and Modo for SolidWorks, was implemented to streamline CAD, sheet‑metal design, photorealistic rendering and mobile visualization. As a result, Steel-Smith cut design time by 50%, reduced development costs by 40%, shortened time‑to‑market by 40%, grew its product offering from ~200 to over 500 SKUs, and now publishes higher‑quality catalogs twice a year while using eDrawings on smartphones to improve sales and customer communication.

Steel-Smith

Ravi Panchal

Design Manager