Ingersoll Milling Machine Honored for Best Engineering Practices

SolidWorks gets a PEER Award for software and support of Ingersoll.

A Penton Engineering Excellence Recognition (PEER) Award for World's Best Engineering Practices has been awarded to Ingersoll Milling Machine, Rockford, IL subsidiary of Ingersoll International Inc, a privately owned holding company. Ingersoll Milling was recognized for its "migration to Desktop CAD and PDM" strategy that was enabled by strategic implementation of SolidWorks Corp (Concord, MA) 3D CAD software, including SmarTeam and COSMOS/Works. SolidWorks was similarly honored with a PEER Award Vendor for software and support services provided to Ingersoll Milling. Awards were made at Penton Media's M/TECH 99.

"Rob Bauer, senior staff engineer at Ingersoll Milling commented: "By strategically implementing SolidWorks and some of their Gold Logo products, such as SmarTeam and COSMOS/Works, we have been able to design and build superior products for our customers. Through their software and support, SolidWorks and their Gold Partners have given us the capability to design, visualize, and analyze new engineering standards and products. These include key components of our transfer lines that produce hundreds of auto engine parts each hour, special applications heavy machines, and our high-speed linear motor machines."

Ingersoll Milling manufactures large-scale custom-made metalcutting and composite forming machines and machining systems for special applications from its one million square feet of shops in Rockford, IL. In addition, Ingersoll International includes Ingersoll Cutting Tool Co (a manufacturer of specialized cutting tools) and Ingersoll CM Systems (Crankshaft Milling Systems) in the U.S., as well as Ingersoll Maschinen und Werkzeuge, Waldrich-Siegen and Waldrich-Coburg in the German operations. Ingersoll employs more than 4000 people and ships more than $500 million in products a year.

M/TECH is produced by Penton Media Inc (Cleveland, OH).

SolidWorks Corp, a Dassault Systemes S.A. company, develops and markets mechanical design software products for Windows. SolidWorks has offices worldwide and distributes its products through a network of 200 resellers selling in 43 countries. SolidWorks has sold more than 39,000 commercial seats of software to more than 12,500 customers and more than 28,000 seats to academic institutions worldwide.

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