Lämneå Bruk AB: Customization requires flexible 3D CAD!

Lämneå Bruk is a world-leading supplier of wire drawing lines, fully automated solutions, and innovative coilers. They design and manufacture customized, complex machines with remarkable success—naturally with the help of IRONCAD.

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Lämneå Bruk manufactures and supplies individual machines, complete wire production cells, and even entire factories for producing various ferrous and non-ferrous wire types. The company boasts an impressive heritage, having been founded in 1727. They began specializing in manufacturing machines for the wire industry in 1823 and have celebrated more than 200 years in the business! What distinguishes Lämneå Bruk is their meticulous control over the entire production chain—the company designs, develops, and manufactures all parts and components for their machines in-house in Sweden.

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Good designs => Strong order intake => Expanding both factory space and staff.

Lämneå Bruk's competitive solutions are validated by increasing market demand for their machines. From humble beginnings in the serene forests and lakes of Central Sweden, they have evolved into one of the biggest players in the wire industry. Their order intake has increased significantly over the last decade, and their workforce has tripled in just three years! Most of their production is exported, both within Europe and worldwide. This is precisely the kind of company Sweden needs more of!

Wire Production: More Important Than You Might Think

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Wire production and processing is an industry not everyone is familiar with, yet wire is used in a vast range of products—from automobiles and machinery to welding rods, bedding, seating, and even jewellery. Wire typically arrives at customers' facilities from steel mills, delivered in coils or as rolled-up skeins. This wire serves as a raw material for finished wire products, but it first needs to undergo various processing steps. This is where Lämneå Bruk's machines excel. They provide a complete machine portfolio to transform wire rods into processed wire of different qualities, from initial payoff of the wire rods through cleaning for further processing to rewinding wire onto perfectly layered spools.

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Complex Machines, Easy Customization with IRONCAD

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The customers they serve all have their own prerequisites for the design of the machines. This can be due to things like the material of the wire, the treatment of the wire, and the desired final product. This means that they almost always need to modify their machines to suit the customer's technical demands. it's often impossible to predict which components will require modification and in what ways. Therefore, IRONCAD's flexible design environment is crucial to their success. Traditional 3D solutions force users into a constrained working methodology, making unforeseen changes time-consuming or sometimes impossible. With IRONCAD, Lämneå Bruk can easily customize which modules to use, how many of each component is required, and other variables. Special solutions for each customer are developed quickly and efficiently.

Tailor-Made Solutions Require Flexible CAD Tools

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In summary, Lämneå Bruk benefits from IRONCAD to create customized solutions in metalworking and special machinery manufacturing. They can rapidly model their products while remaining open to innovative approaches. How many coils are needed for a specific process? How many "blocks" should a drawing machine incorporate? With what force and speed should the wire be pulled? These customer requirements must be resolved quickly. IRONCAD meets their needs for customization and flexibility through smart integrated tools that control design details in both shape and placement. This approach saves both time and money while also enabling them to design fixtures and production equipment.

This is what Lämneå Bruk says about the result with IRONCAD:

"When we started scanning the market for a 3D CAD system that could fit our design and customization needs, we settled on IRONCAD for several reasons. Today we can say that we made an excellent choice. The program works really smoothly and we do everything from large assemblies in 3D, to detailed drawings of individual parts, quickly and easily. We can open a large assembly, break all or some external links and save these with a new name and can change freely - without worrying about other machines being modified by mistake. Then we can gradually link out sub-assemblies and parts with their own new file names as the new solution takes shape. That's great!

We also utilize the Sheet Metal module to unfold sheet metal parts. In addition to designing customized solutions, we are continuously improving our technical solutions for wire handling in general in IRONCAD. This leads, for example, to machines with the highest speed for unwinding wire available on the market - an important parameter for our customers.

We are also linked to an efficient business system that streamlines the entire design and production process for us. We have a good understanding of the different ways of working with a 3D CAD system and cannot see how we could be as efficient with any other system on the market today as we are with IRONCAD."

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Samuel Erikssson, Lämneå Bruk

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