| COMPANY: | Joy Mining Machinery |
| HEADQUARTERS: | Warrendale, PA |
| SIZE OF COMPANY: | 1,000 or more employees |
| INDUSTRY: | Industrial/heavy equipment |
| PRIMARY PRODUCT LINE: | Underground mining machinery, longwall shearers, roof supports, face conveyors, stageloaders, continuous miners, batch haulage vehicles, continuous haulage systems |
| NAME OF PROJECT: | Introducing the Flexible Conveyor Train to Australia |
| PROJECT OBJECTIVE: | Leverage engineering data to create a lightweight design model for training and marketing materials; eliminate experts’ travel to Australia to sell and support the product |
| TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED: | Autodesk Inventor and Vault; Right Hemisphere Deep Exploration, Deep Server, and Deep Access |
| ACCOMPLISHMENTS/ROI: | 3D animations and color images will make for more effective training; machines will be better serviced; less downtime; anticipated $60,000 saved on international service calls, $60,000 saved on travel expenses, $100,000 saved on international sales calls |