Case Study: Dixon Valve & Coupling achieves weeks-to-days fixture production and reduced costs with Xometry

Dixon Valve & Coupling drives down production cost and time with Xometry

Dixon Valve, a long-established manufacturer of hose couplings, valves, and fluid-transfer products, needed to give its internal automation team direct access to manufacturing costing, manufacturability feedback, and ordering from inside its SOLIDWORKS 3D design environment to speed tooling and automation development. To solve that challenge the company added the Xometry add-in to SOLIDWORKS.

Using Xometry’s add-in, Dixon Valve could get instant quotes, feedback on production methods, and place orders without leaving SOLIDWORKS—allowing a stainless‑steel 3D‑printed assembly fixture to be quoted, ordered, and received in days instead of weeks. The Xometry integration cut fixture production time from weeks to days, reduced fixture costs by enabling volume and process optimization, and provided 24/7 access to manufacturing services and cost data that accelerated Dixon Valve’s automation work.

Dixon Valve

J.R. Everett

Industrial Engineer