ERIKS offers a wide range of products and engineering services, as well as providing the expertise to help its customers improve product performance and reduce the total cost of ownership. “We are a multi-product specialist,” says Head of Engineering Job van de Sande. “This means that we deliver various components to different industries.” The company also adds part functionality to existing components, per customer specifications, or engineers' parts from scratch. ERIKS has 5,000 employees in 15 countries with a base in The Netherlands.
The company experienced significant autonomous growth between 2005 and 2020, along with growth from acquisitions. Consequently, ERIKS ended up with a large number of various 2D and 3D computer-aided design software packages. With over half a million 2D drawings that the company still wanted to leverage, ERIKS desired a comprehensive product development solution.
“We picked one of the big ecosystems [Dassault Systèmes] to really cover all our needs for 2D, 3D, and simulation software. We are also transitioning step by step toward the 3DEXPERIENCE® cloud,” explains van de Sande.