{"id":2447,"date":"2014-03-25T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/NX-Design-Blog\/NX-Case-Study-Grupo-Matrigalsa\/ba-p\/25692"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:25:42","slug":"nx-case-study-grupo-matrigalsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/nx-case-study-grupo-matrigalsa\/","title":{"rendered":"NX Case Study &#8211; Grupo Matrigalsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matrigalsa.com\/spa\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Grupo Matrigalsa<\/A> uses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX<\/A> to standardize processes and improve productivity in manufacturing highly complex molds.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><IMG src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/4276i8D267C8C1B4ABCDA\/image-size\/medium?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Grupo Matrigalsa\" title=\"Grupo Matrigalsa\" align=\"center\" \/><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG>Challenges:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Redefine design methodology, reduce turnaround and increase overall engineering productivity<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Establish reputation for delivering a sophisticated, value-added product<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Extend customer service<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Increase exports; expand access to an upscale market<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Improve competitiveness<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG>Keys To Success:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Deployment of a single, easy-to-use design tool \u2013 NX<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Process standardization<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/for-manufacturing\/tooling-fixture-design\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Mold Wizard<\/A><\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Regular software updates<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Strong reputation of Siemens PLM Software\u2019s solutions<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG>Results:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Reduced design time by up to 80 percent in the manufacture of compelling, highly complex products<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Increased competitive advantage, including extending customer service offerings<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Expanded upmarket penetration and overall growth in the global automotive and aviation markets<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Achieved record-breaking revenue in 2012<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG>Industry:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/aerospace-defense\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Aerospace &amp; Defense<\/A><\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 18px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/automotive-transportation\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Automotive &amp; Transportation<\/A><\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG>Client&#8217;s Primary Business:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Grupo Matrigalsa designs and manufactures injected die casting molds, focusing the automotive and aviation industries.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/success\/case_study.cfm?Component=217419&amp;ComponentTemplate=1481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Read the case study here:<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Jerry<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grupo Matrigalsa uses NX to standardize processes and improve productivity in manufacturing highly complex molds. <\/p>\n<p> Challenges: <\/p>\n<p>  Redefine design methodology, reduce turnaro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[58,3],"industry":[],"product":[304],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-success-story","tag-case-study","tag-cad","product-nx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}