Boosting CAD performance for product development

To break the cycle of costly CAD workstation refreshes and enable closer collaboration between teams, AICHELIN Group signed up for Lenovo TruScale. With as-a-service virtual CAD desktops running on Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series nodes powered by AMD EPYC™ 73F3 Processors, the company can cut costs, scale seamlessly and increase productivity.

Customer Problem

Product engineers at AICHELIN Group depend on CAD software to develop cutting-edge solutions—but maintaining high workstation performance led to costly and frequent hardware refreshes.

Lenovo Solution

With Lenovo TruScale Infrastructure as a Service, AICHELIN Group gained a standardized high-performance virtual desktop infrastructure that avoids the need to purchase, configure, deploy and manage individual workstations.

Business Impact

AICHELIN Group can provision virtual desktops rapidly and cost-effectively while slashing IT management. With a standardized solution, the company boosts productivity across its international engineering teams.

“Centralizing and standardizing on Lenovo TruScale has dramatically reduced the complexity of IT management and makes it easier for our engineering teams to work together. The new solution has been so successful that we’re planning to onboard more than 16 product engineers in Germany and Slovenia soon.”

Christian Huber, Head of Global IT, AICHELIN Group

Results

• ·       80% lower cost than public cloud
• ·       40 hours/month saved on management
• ·       High performance for CAD workloads