A SENER é uma compania de engenharia, construção e integração de sistemas aero espaciais que conseguiu um ganho de produtividade usando o Solid Edge e a tecnologia Synchronous para editar geometrias vindo de qualquer software CAD permitindo alterações e projetos de maneira dinâmica

1. Solid Edge
SENER
Complex aerospace work gets a boost from Solid Edge
Industry Synchronous technology speeds
Aerospace collaborative design projects by
allowing fast modifications to
Business challenges any geometry
Shorter project timeframes Multidisciplinary engineering
Complex designs SENER Ingenería y Sistemas S.A. (SENER) is
Ongoing design modifications an engineering, construction and systems
integration company backed by more than
50 years of experience. Innovation, com-
Keys to success mitment to quality and independence are
Solid Edge with synchronous the company’s values. Founded in Spain,
technology SENER has become an international leader
in a number of domains, including civil
Ability to modify designs
engineering and architecture, aerospace
created in other CAD systems
engineering, aeronautics and vehicles,
No need to know model’s actuator and control systems, power and
history processes, and marine engineering. SENER
Support from Pixel Sistemas employs more than 2,500 professionals at
13 offices around the world. Countries
represented include Algiers, Argentina, the
Results United Arab Emirates, Japan, Mexico,
Faster design changes Poland, Portugal and Spain.
New level of engineering
SENER regards research and development dedicate ourselves to making prototypes,
productivity
(R&D) as an important component of its which we must deliver within increasingly
Ability to focus on designing work, with the design process integral to short timeframes,” Germán Jaio Gogenola,
instead of operating the its success. “We spend 15 to 20 percent coordinator of designers in the Structures
CAD software of our time on R&D, and 15 percent of that and Mechanisms section. The tight dead-
“Design without creative is self-financed,” says Fernando Artigas lines led the company to consider upgrad-
limits” Azkoaga, chief of the company’s Structures ing its design software. “We must be alert
and Mechanisms section. to new developments in CAD (computer-
aided design),” Gogenola explains.
Like other engineering companies, SENER
has had to find ways to work faster. “We
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2. “We attribute our new levels New and better way to design
of productivity to Solid Edge. With assistance from Pixel Sistemas, a
Before Solid Edge, we spent Siemens PLM Software channel partner,
a lot of time thinking about SENER chose Solid Edge® software from
how to construct a model. Siemens PLM Software as its new design
Now we can focus on the platform. “Pixel presented Solid Edge as
design.” a new and better way to design,” says
Gogenola. “When we saw how it worked in
Alfredo Fernández
a real design scenario, we were convinced
Designer
that the Pixel proposal was the way to go.
Structures and
They understood our needs, our business
Mechanisms Section
and how to help.” SENER is still relying on
SENER
Pixel Sistemas for technical support and
“to further tune our design system,”
Gogenola adds.
From the designer’s point of view, the
transition to Solid Edge was not difficult, He is referring specifically to Solid Edge
thanks to the software’s ease of use. “Solid with synchronous technology, which
Edge is very intuitive compared to other allows him and his colleagues to edit most
programs,” says Alfredo Fernández, a types of geometry, regardless of which
designer in the Structures and Mechanisms CAD system or which designer created it.
section. “It is the easiest [CAD software] “The most notable characteristic of Solid
to use that we have found.” Edge with synchronous technology is the
ability to make real-time modifications,”
Solid Edge is currently being used on two says Fernández. “The steering wheel is the
large aerospace projects. One involves the jewel in the crown. With it, we can handle
design of an optical instrument that will any type of modification such as move,
travel onboard SEOSAT/Ingenio, Spain’s extrude, rotate, and so on.”
first earth observation satellite. The second
project involves a mechanism that will be A key advantage with synchronous tech-
used to collect asteroid samples. Both nology is that users don’t need knowledge
projects are being done for the European of how a CAD model was constructed in
Space Agency (ESA). order to modify it. “We can now work with
files transferred from any other CAD sys-
Modifications in real time tem, even if we have not had experience
The designs for these projects are highly with that software,” Fernández explains.
complex, and the work is complicated by “We can make changes without knowing
critical thermal requirements, as well as the model’s history. Any Solid Edge user
difficult assembly and manufacturing pro- can pick up a part made by any other user
cesses. According to Fernández, the design and work on it without knowing how it
process is characterized by “continuous was made or consulting with the original
modification,” which is why Solid Edge is engineer, yet the original intent is
so useful for these projects. “Solid Edge maintained.”
gives us a faster and more flexible way of
making changes than we had previously,”
Fernández says.

3. Solutions/Services “This speeds up the design process a lot,”
Solid Edge with Fernández continues, “especially our
synchronous technology design process, which requires continuous
www.siemens.com/solidedge design modifications. We attribute our
new levels of productivity to Solid Edge.
Before Solid Edge, we spent a lot of time
Customer’s primary business thinking about how to construct a model.
SENER Ingenería y Sistemas Now we can focus on the design.”
S.A. is an engineering,
construction and systems Another advantage with Solid Edge is a
integration company, and better ability to manage revisions. “We
an international leader in a now have speed and flexibility when man-
number of domains, including aging documents and files,” Fernández
civil engineering and architec- adds. Overall, the move to Solid Edge has
ture, aerospace engineering, given the company’s designers a new way
aeronautics and vehicles, of thinking about their work. “It’s a new
actuator and control systems, mentality – design without creative limits,”
power and processes, and he concludes.
marine engineering.
www.sener.es
Customer location
Madrid
Spain
“Solid Edge is very intuitive
compared to other pro-
grams. It is the easiest
[CAD software] to use that
we have found.”
Alfredo Fernández
Designer
Structures and
Mechanisms Section
SENER
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