Case Study: Marel achieves 30% faster, higher-quality user manuals with SolidWorks Composer

Producing the latest user manuals with SolidWorks Composer

Marel, a global leader in equipment and systems for the fish, meat, and poultry industries, faced a slow, error-prone process for producing user manuals at its Iceland plant due to mixed CAD environments and reliance on multiple tools (Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Word). Updates often lagged behind product changes, creating customer service issues and potential legal risk. To address this, Marel evaluated and adopted SolidWorks Composer from SolidWorks.

By using SolidWorks Composer, Marel automated documentation directly from 3D CAD models, cutting technical communication production time by 30%, eliminating manual errors, and improving overall manual quality. The SolidWorks solution freed staff to explore better documentation approaches (including future animations), increased productivity, and set the stage for wider SolidWorks adoption across Marel’s sites.

Marel

Steindór Eiriksson

CAD Systems Administrator