A new process for sharing industrial gearbox calculation tool between Technical and Sales Departments in Bonfiglioli Riduttori S.p.A.

摘要

Several years ago, Bonfiglioli Riduttori, the most important gearbox manufacturing company in Bologna, set itself the task of making available to the technical and sales departments a reliable, easy-to-use tool for calculating gearbox performance. Essential requirements were to avoid users getting direct access to the gearbox geometry (especially, drawing and manufacturing data) and also to help people without expertise in calculation and simulation. This article describes how this task has been achieved from a technical point of view (e.g. hardware, software and network architecture used, people involved, advantages and disadvantages, system implementation and calculation times) and suggests some future prospects.