Company: Schalkwijk

Industry: Interior Design

Location: Netherlands

The Challenge:
The furniture factory Schalkwijk, located in Holland, has distinguished itself as a specialist in the furniture and interior fixture design market. Disappointed with their existing mainstream 3D CAD system, Schalkwijk decided that there must be a better way to work. After evaluating their current systems they asked the questions, is their a quicker way to work in 3D? How can we better communicate with our customers? How can we have fewer manufacturing errors? We need a CAD program that gives more freedom in design.

IronCAD the Productivity Solution:
For a year now Schalkwijk designers have been intensively using IronCAD to create their designs. They have found that as promised IronCAD delivers higher levels of productivity over traditional 3D modeling systems, resulting in the design group creating interior fixtures and furniture faster and easier than previously imagined.

Matthijs Metselaar one of the designers at Schalkwijk says: "The advanced visualization functionalities of IronCAD are very useful when presenting a design to a customer. With IronCAD I can show the customer an exact rendering of the final product. This is crucial when presenting designs to potential customers before prototypes are available."

Schalkwijk also saves a lot of time and money with IronCAD in the manufacture and assembly of their products. "We can quickly show the manufacturers in the factory how to manufacture and assemble our designs, without making mistakes. This drastically increases our productivity when compared to our last system." says Matthijs Metselaar. "As a designer, you always have to translate the 3D design in a manner the manufacturers will be able to use efficiently. IronCAD's fully associative detailed drawing creation capabilities and fully integrated BOM make this very easy to accomplish."

Schalkwijk, with over 90 years experience in furniture and interior fixture design creation have built up an impressive list of references. Many new and exciting architectural projects contain designs by Schalkwijk like Amsterdam's famous new Arena soccer stadium located in Ajax, and the Rijksmuseum, home of the Rembrandt paintings collection. Many international hotels and congress centers also use Schalkwijk designs.

Summary

• Communication with customers has improved.
• Far fewer manufacturing errors.
• More creativity, better designs the first time.

"We can quickly show the manufacturers in the factory how to manufacture and assemble our designs, without making mistakes. This drastically increases our productivity when compared to our last system." - Matthijs Metselaar