Virtual Workstations Applied to the Mould Industry - A Case Study

Abstract

Professional CAD/CAM users in the mould making industry count on these environments to design and engineer moulds for the plastic industry. Conventionally this software is accessible through high-powered workstations shared among professionals in closed facilities. Operating in various countries, the access to data and projects, security and real-time collaboration became imperative. The look for solutions to provide mobility turned Tecnimoplás to virtualization to deliver VDI environments to their commercial, managers and project users. However, these kind of VDI environments weren’t extensively tested yet in the mould making industry, so the company decided to try this solution on their own. A proof-of-concept was made, and initial conclusions were taken from there leading the project forward. The final solution was tailored and implemented, and users started working only with VDI systems. Tests were then made to achieve the optimal VDI configuration and file time opening, processing times, update times and power consumption measurements took place. The continues VDI technology update makes this kind of study only a brief approach to this recent technology.