Knapheide 借助 SOLIDWORKS 认证培养未来的工程师

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SOLIDWORKS Enterprise Subscription Services, a premium support contract, provides customers with unlimited free SOLIDWORKS Certification exams. What’s the big deal? Listen to Marty Ohnemus, Engineering Systems Administrator from the Knapheide Manufacturing Company, describe the benefits of its Certification program and how it’s transformed the company’s community of engineers.




Knapheide was founded by Herman Heinrich Knapheide in 1848 in Quincy, Illinois, initially building high-quality wagons for pioneers, farmers, and miners. Today, the Knapheide Manufacturing Company is a major producer of truck bodies, service bodies, and other work vehicles. Knapheide’s engineering was a 2D shop before deploying SOLIDWORKS in 2002.
In 2017, the company’s engineers submitted an average of 2,600 tickets per year. When Knapheide noticed that its only Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert (CSWE) engineer submitted only 1-2 tickets per year, and only for blocking issues, they initiated a formal Certification Program for new and existing Knapheide engineers.



The program exposed training gaps, which were consistent across their engineers. Knapheide was able to bring in their SolidWorks Partner to provide training to remove those gaps. This effort enabled them to create a skill baseline. Identifying these gaps helped Knapheide define a baseline for its engineers’ training.


New engineers now spend their first month in an onboarding process that includes preparation for and taking the following exams:
SOLIDWORKS CAD Design Associate (CSWA)
SOLIDWORKS Drawing Tools Professional (CSWP-DT)
SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Professional (CSWP-SM)
SOLIDWORKS CAD Design Professional (CSWP)
Knapheide’s Certification Program reduced its ticket inflow to just 650 tickets per year, and many of these are requests for new ways to do something or inquiries about solving engineering challenges. The program also helps its engineers stay current on the new features in each SOLIDWORKS release.


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