John Harder & Company Designs with the help of Solid Edge![]() John Harder & Company have the ability to design, verify and build a product all at once. The company focuses on specialized, custom-built attachments designed to fit its customers’ individual requirements. It designs to fit customers’ individual requirements to solve material handling problems with high-quality, special attachments that have durability and long life. They are able to do all this with the help of Solid Edge - a 2D/3D CAD program. Mainly used for 3D design, simulation, manufacturing and design management which was exactly what the company needed. To stay competitive and maintain itself as one of the largest makers of specialty forklift attachments, the company has stayed current with the most productive engineering software tools available. In the very beginning the company switched from the traditional drawing methods to 2D design software. Later the company transitioned to 3D solid modeling, selecting Solid Edge software. “Design tasks that took six hours on a drawing board dropped to about four hours using 2D computer-aided design (CAD), and then to 15 minutes with 3D Solid Edge,” says Mike Peterson, president of the Saint Louis-based company and a former aerospace engineer. The company recently adopted Solid Edge Simulation to extend its engineering capabilities with integrated stress analysis. “Manual stress analysis is time-consuming to verify alone, so we added Solid Edge Simulation about three years ago,” Peterson says. “We use simulation every week. It gives you an added feeling of security and has helped prevent some designs that were too weak. Solid Edge Simulation used early in the development process provides a good, easy way to visualize and prove a design.” A part of the design process is to quote jobs to the customers. “We needed to validate assemblies, not just parts,” notes Peterson. When Siemens PLM Software developed a new add-on FEA package for multi-part assemblies ‒ Solid Edge Simulation ‒ the company dropped the third-party tools in order to benefit from a CAD-embedded solution that could be used early in the job-quoting and design processes. “With CAD-embedded simulation, we can verify manual calculations but don’t have to depend on a third-party package that is not integrated,” says Peterson. “Embedded FEA cuts cost and avoids time-delaying outsourced FEA. We can just do it ourselves.” “Solid Edge Simulation enhances our opportunities and provides us with confidence in our designs.” Rob Jones Sales and Engineering JHC
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