For more detail visit: http://www.ptc.com/go/bpa As a company in a highly competitive market, Uniloy is continually seeking ways to stand apart. Approximately ten years ago, the company had been using a CAD program to design its molds and containers in 2D, but the solution wasn’t sophisticated enough to position Uniloy on the leading edge. That’s when Uniloy discovered PTC’s Pro/ENGINEER, a parametric, integrated 3D CAD/CAM/CAE solution. Since that time, Uniloy has relied on the Creo family of design products to design all its molding solutions for companies around the globe. Always eager to tap into the newest features available via the PTC solution, Uniloy keeps pace with the new releases of Creo. When it migrated to Creo Elements/Pro 5.0 in 2011, Uniloy realized it needed guidance to take full advantage of the solution. Though all the company’s designers were experienced users of the products, they needed help efficiently leveraging some of the updated functionality. This included the Import Data Doctor, which had undergone some changes. According to Greg Gordon, SR. Project Engineer for Uniloy, “Our design processes were taking longer due to increasing market demands and product complexity. Incorporating foreign data into the increasingly complex product and tooling designs became more challenging. Navigating and understanding the revised Creo version of Import Data Doctor added to those challenges, yet we knew the Import Data Doctor was a powerful feature. That’s when we realized that our best choice was to take advantage of PTC University’s Best Practice Academy – so we could implement the best design habits and optimize our productivity.” By engaging an Learning Consultant from PTC University’s Best Practice Academy, the company was able to quickly learn best practices and methods for importing custom models to create blow molds.

1. Case Study
Uniloy engages PTC University
Best Practice Academy to boost
productivity with CAD upgrade
Uniloy CORPOR ATION
Uniloy, a division of Milacron LLC, is the world
leader in blow molding and structural foam
systems for a wide range of applications.
For over four decades, Uniloy has delivered innovative solutions to plastics
processors worldwide. From packaging for food, pharmaceuticals, household
and personal care products to industrial and automotive parts applications, blow
molders use Uniloy machinery and services to get a leg up on the competition.
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2. Case Study
As a company in a highly competitive market, Uniloy is continually seeking ways to
stand apart. Approximately ten years ago, the company had been using a CAD pro-
gram to design its molds and containers in 2D, but the solution wasn’t sophisticated
enough to position Uniloy on the leading edge. That’s when Uniloy discovered PTC’s
Pro/ENGINEER, a parametric, integrated 3D CAD/CAM/CAE solution. Since that
time, Uniloy has relied on the Creo family of design products to design all its molding
solutions for companies around the globe.
Always eager to tap into the newest features available via the PTC solution, Uniloy
keeps pace with the new releases of Creo. When it migrated to Creo Elements/Pro
5.0 in 2011, Uniloy realized it needed guidance to take full advantage of the solution.
Though all the company’s designers were experienced users of the products, they
needed help efficiently leveraging some of the updated functionality. This included
the Import Data Doctor, which had undergone some changes.
According to Greg Gordon, SR. Project Engineer for Uniloy, “Our design processes
were taking longer due to increasing market demands and product complexity.
Incorporating foreign data into the increasingly complex product and tooling designs
became more challenging. Navigating and understanding the revised Creo version
of Import Data Doctor added to those challenges, yet we knew the Import Data
Doctor was a powerful feature. That’s when we realized that our best choice was to
take advantage of PTC University’s Best Practice Academy – so we could implement
the best design habits and optimize our productivity.”
By engaging an Learning Consultant from PTC University’s Best Practice Academy,
“
the company was able to quickly learn best practices and methods for importing
custom models to create blow molds.
he customized training offered via PTC
T
University’s Best Practice Academy
proved invaluable to extracting full value
from Creo Elements/Pro.”
Greg Gordon
Sr. Project Engineer, Uniloy
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3. Case Study
Engaging PTC expertise and guidance
To quickly get its mold designers up to speed using the updated Creo interface and
Import Data Doctor, Uniloy reached out to a training advisor with PTC University.
After assessing Uniloy’s situation and needs, the advisor recommended PTC Univer-
sity’s Best Practice Academy.
Created to help companies develop their products using the most appropriate meth-
ods for the whole design process, the Best Practice Academy enables PTC custom-
ers to adopt proven best practices for product development. Customers can choose
from interactive on-site workshops, learning programs, and the eLearning library.
Because Uniloy required custom training and assistance with incorporating the
revised interface and functionality of Creo’s Import Data Doctor into its design
practices, PTC University sent a trainer to Uniloy’s facility for an interactive work-
shop and hands-on mentoring.
Uniloy required custom training and assistance with incorporating the revised
interface and functionality of Creo’s Import Data Doctor into its design practices.
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4. Case Study
Uniloy employees focused on achieving the desired results and fully committed to participating in
the interactive session.
Tapping into customized training
Oftentimes, Uniloy is required to build tooling around containers it provides to its
customers. In many of those cases, customers send their designs to the company as
IGES or STEP files. Uniloy must then import and clean up surfaces and geometries
before it can create molds.
To ensure Uniloy’s designers could extract maximum value from the robust Import
Data Doctor embedded in Creo, the PTC University Learning Consultant kicked off
the Best Practice Academy engagement with an interactive roundtable discussion.
According to Gordon, “The Learning Consultant was extremely personable, took
the time to understand the unique needs of all our designers, and quickly grasped
our challenges.”
Based on the discussion with Uniloy’s designers, the Learning Consultant custom-
ized the best practice for importing files and then walked the designers step by step
through the process in hands-on exercises. While the Learning Consultant brought
invaluable expertise and guidance to the table, the involvement of Uniloy’s users
contributed to the success of the training. Gordon’s team was focused on achieving
the desired results and fully committed to participating in the interactive session.
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5. Case Study
Best practices ease transition
Within two days, Uniloy’s ten designers were comfortable using the
Import Data Doctor to import and clean up data files. In fact, during
the hands-on, interactive Best Practice Academy workshop
session, a designer was able to import and clean up data for an
urgent customer project in about 15 minutes by applying best
practices learning in the training.
Smoothly importing data
Uniloy’s designers must often fix surface disconnects or twists
when importing data from a tool other than Creo. “Because it’s been
simple for our designers to apply the best-practice recommenda-
tions from the training, they are able to quickly resolve issues such
as these,” explains Gordon.
Summary: Staying ahead with expert training
“With any software update, even the most experienced users need
to get familiar with new functionality and even a small change in
the interface can influence the workflow. Especially when you are
working with a larger design team, it is a critical advantage to align
your team around best practices and a clearly defined workflow to
maximize process efficiency. We were able to realize this with the
help of PTC University and its Best Practice Academy program and
are confident that we would benefit from another engagement.”
concludes Gordon.
Uniloy has relied on the Creo family of design
products to design all its molding solutions for
companies around the globe.
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