With its highly specialized products and heavy workloads, Lytron needed to automate the design process for certain items in its product line, including heat exchangers, cold plates, and chillers. After extensive research, the company found that RuleStream Corp's solution best suited its needs. Lytron designs and manufactures high performance heat transfer systems and components. Its cooling products include recirculating chillers, non-refrigerated cooling systems, cold plates, aluminum oil coolers, copper tube fin heat exchangers, stainless steel tube-fin heat exchangers, and brazed-plate heat exchangers.

Using RuleStream's easy-to-use rule capturing environment, Lytron was able to bring the software into operation for one of its product lines within just a few weeks. Lytron's new product drawings can now be created simply by entering certain parameters, such as size. These parameters are used to modify a predefined product template and automatically generate a new drawing of the new part. This saves times and reduces the potential for error.

"This software enables us to design products in a much more efficient manner," said Chuck Marshall, Lytron's CAD design manager. "We estimate that we can cut design time by 20-80%, depending on the product, so RuleStream should pay for itself in time savings alone in less than one year."

RuleStream Corp automates the build-to-order process across engineering, manufacturing and sales. Manufacturers using the RuleStream suite of applications are able to develop and sell their products according to their unique capabilities, effectively making the delivery of custom orders as easy as standard orders. RuleStream links all product-intensive business processes through an intelligent, dynamic product control model that reacts according to a centralized engineering, sales, and manufacturing rules database.

"The thermal electronics industry is only one of the many markets that RuleStream serves," said RuleStream CEO David Vredenburgh. "As demonstrated with Lytron, our powerful build-to-order tools can bring tremendous savings to manufacturers who take customer-specific orders."