Creo Customer: Keeping Industrial Water Users Accountable

By LINDSEY CHRISTENSEN | Published: DEC 16, 2011

Industry needs water. Power plants, food processors, and manufacturers all suck up billions of cubic meters of the stuff so they can light your house, feed your family, and roll out your automobiles.  In fact, it’s estimated that industry accounts for 22% of global water use.

For most of these applications, water is considered “renewable”; once the resource has served its purpose, it’s drained back to the rivers, streams, and lakes that supplied it in the first place.

Industrial water doesn’t flow unchecked, however, especially once it’s ready to leave the plant. Environmental scientists and hydrologists treat and test for harmful chemicals, pathogens, metals, and much more. It’s a highly regulated environment, and just collecting water for testing must be careful and methodical.

Creo Customer Aquamatic knows this better than anybody. With its line of wastewater samplers, the company focuses strictly on the design and manufacture of uncomplicated, robust, and reliable wastewater sampling equipment.

“Simplicity matters in our industry,” says Peter Smith, Technical Director, Aquamatic Samplers. “The easier we can make it for our customers to get good data, the more successful they’re going to be in meeting regulations, controlling fees, and avoiding ecologic or regulatory problems.”

Yet despite the simplicity of Aquamatic Samplers, there’s a lot to consider when collecting effluents: How do you know your sample is truly representative? How do you keep “floatables” from blocking the equipment? What challenges might collecting in the field present, compared to a permanent installation?

Most importantly, how do you make a product range that will help customers meet regulations in dozens of diverse industries in dozens of geographical regions?

For Aquamatic, its own smart engineering addresses the first set of questions. But Creo addresses the last. Creo’s direct modeling software helps Aquamatic quickly adapt to changing requirements whether targeting new regulations or a custom job for a single customer.

To find out more about why Aquamatic uses Creo (and why the company switched from another CAD system to do it), check out our customer story here