Engineering services company Syncroness is building lightweight, high-performance mechanisms in less time and at lower cost by using SolidWorks COSMOSMotion analysis software to detect part collisions and precisely calculate material use. Westminster, Colorado based Syncroness designs enclosures, medical devices, triggering, and launching mechanisms for corporation and government agencies. The company uses COSMOSMotion to correct collisions and calculate precisely how much material a mechanism needs to resist failure without weighing an ounce more than it needs to. The ability to detect and correct faults early in the design cycle gives Syncroness’ engineers more time to focus on designing better products, and less on time-consuming manual analysis.
CEO Greg Langley chose COSMOSMotion as the company’s front-line mechanical analysis tool because it is easy to use, performs complex calculations, and integrates smoothly with the company’s other software tools. With COSMOSMotion, Syncroness can analyze its designs in minutes, rather than the days and weeks its previous analysis process required.
“COSMOSMotion took about four hours to learn, versus the three-to-five days our other analysis tools required,” Langley said. “It performs complex calculations and delivers accurate results. The test came when we built a lift-and-tilt module for a wheelchair. We had tight space requirements so we integrated several different mechanisms – cams, scissors, etc. – into a single assembly. The transition from one mechanism to another had to be smooth. The design performed within five percent of the prediction we made with COSMOSMotion, which is an excellent result.”
“A prototype doesn’t enable us to test all the conditions and failure modes we can test electronically,” Langley said. “A COSMOSMotion prototype tells us how close we are to the edge of failure and what we have to do to avoid it. A physical prototype just tells us if we failed, but not how or why.”
COSMOSMotion has also eliminated time-consuming trial-and-error testing and enabled the company to run dozens of iterations in a fraction of the time.