Case Study: SMS Smart Media Solutions achieves easier collaboration and increased productivity with SolidWorks

Making Collaboration Easier With SolidWorks

SMS Smart Media Solutions, a Swedish maker of high-quality mounting and display accessories, needed better collaboration between its in‑house Product Department engineers and external partners and an effective document‑handling system to track design details. After bench testing CAD options, the company adopted SolidWorks—deploying SolidWorks design software, SolidWorks Enterprise PDM and SolidWorks Composer—to address those challenges.

Using SolidWorks, SMS centralized a document bank of some 400 articles, shortened the overall design process and reduced time spent searching for drawings, enabling more engineers to work on the same projects simultaneously. SolidWorks Enterprise PDM improved version control and partner collaboration, while SolidWorks Composer let SMS bring technical documentation in‑house and raise document quality—results that increased departmental productivity and removed previous bottlenecks.

SMS Smart Media Solutions

Richard Svahn

Head of Products and Projects