Creo Customer: Cleaning up the Big Messes

By LINDSEY CHRISTENSEN | Published: MAY 1, 2012

The Chariot series from Windsor Industries is a set of spry, compact, cleaning machines that are self-powered while the user stands on the backend. Windsor designed this line as a faster, cleaner, more comfortable alternative to the typical stand-behind-and-push vacuums, burnishers, and carpet scrubbers that are on the market. But to be worthwhile, Windsor also needed to make their machines easy to maintain and refill with cleaning solutions.

Fitting multiple uses into a compact, easy-to-use, cleaning machine can pose a challenge.

Not for Windsor Industries. Richard Hendley, from IH Services (a Windsor customer) comments, “With the walk-behind scrubber, we had trouble turning the machine in the hallways, and they’re quite wide. The 20-inch Chariot does everything I had hoped it would do (reduced labor hours, increased frequencies).”

Engineers at Windsor Industries used Creo Parametric to ensure that the design was ergonomically comfortable, quick to maintain, and used off-the-shelf parts for lower costs and quicker maintenance.

In the end, efficiency, quality, and safety are where Windsor Industries and their Chariot line shine. Chariot machines are quiet enough to run during school or work hours, small enough to use in rooms or classrooms, and efficient enough to reduce maintenance times by half.

The proof is in the user’s experience. Jake from Lane Community College attests, “[The Chariot] is efficient, easier on my back, and overall lets me keep [my] area on a higher level of cleanliness.”

In this episode of the Product Design Show, Dave and Allison dive into the inside of these little machines to show how Windsor engineers used Creo Parametric to make this dirty job easy to maintain and efficient to use.