Titan Steel Door - Improving CAD Data Management
Last month, we continued our story focusing on Titan Steel Door in this blog post, and how, even as a successful manufacturer of steel doors, they had room for improvement under each pillar. In this part of the story, we will continue the story, explaining exactly how we solved their issues under just the CAD Data Management pillar.
Rebuilding the Engineering Foundation
Within just weeks, Titan was up and running with their new modeling technique. From the beginning, we insisted that they deploy a SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional vault to manage this data. However, without an IT staff with engineering server knowledge, Titan Steel Door decided to host their PDM Professional vault in the EpiGrid Cloud for a fully managed solution. The transition was seamless and entirely remote—no on-site servers, no IT burden, no disruption.
As our engineers worked side by side with the Titan team to build the first master model for a full product line in the PDM Vault, they quickly gained confidence. This parametric model defined the core geometry for doors and frames, ensuring they would always align—no more mismatches. The new system enabled all future configurations to be derived from one intelligent model.
By utilizing SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional to manage their CAD data, Titan Steel Door had "One Record of Truth" for all CAD data, and all future iterations were neatly managed by the software. Hosting the PDM vault in the cloud enabled their team to access their files from anywhere...even outside of the office
IT constraints - throwing files on a server without standardization. Human memory reliant, find the old job, do an autopsy to reverse engineer the design was the old way. The new way involved PDM auto versioning and standardizing the data management for the whole team.
Stay tuned to learn how we solved Titan Steel Door's CAD Data Distribution problems by deploying a Cloud-hosted data distribution system called Flatter Files, and be sure to catch our monthly webinar series that focuses on each of the 3 Pillars of CAD Data.
