Case Study: TUMI Raise Boring achieves 40% shorter design cycle and faster time-to-market with SOLIDWORKS

Reducing Time to Market and Sharpening Competitive Edge With Solidworks for Machine Design

TUMI Raise Boring is a Peruvian rock drilling and excavation specialist that designs, manufactures and services raise boring machines and related equipment for mining, hydroelectric and civil projects. Facing slow, error-prone development using 2D tools like AutoCAD, TUMI needed to streamline machine development, reduce rework and accelerate time to market — so they turned to SolidWorks (implementing SolidWorks Professional and SolidWorks Composer).

Using SolidWorks Professional for engineering and SolidWorks Composer for documentation, TUMI cut its design cycle by 40% (reducing some projects from 10 to six months), halved bill-of-materials creation time, reduced 2D documentation errors by 20%, located parts 30% faster and cut human error by 70%. SolidWorks also provided integrated 3D-driven manuals and marketing content, improving manufacturing clarity, speeding approvals and sharpening TUMI’s competitive edge.

TUMI Raise Boring

Jorge Arizaca

Engineer