Studies, calculations and reports are an integral part of Polartek's activities as a consultant for domestic energy utilisation. The company has replaced homemade spreadsheets with quick-to-use report templates from Tekla Tedds.
Polartek Oy was established in 1975. The company is headquartered in Oulu, with branches in Varkaus, Jyväskylä, Kotka, Kokkola and Helsinki, and subsidiaries in Kemi and Oulu.
- Polartek provides consultancy services for the challenges of domestic energy utilisation, says Jorma Hopia, Head of Design in the company's Structural Design Unit, who has strong Tekla experience from his previous career and also develops components for the manufacturing industry.
- "All our structural design is done on the basis of data models and, as a rule, with Tekla Structures," Hopia continues. Tekla Tedds was introduced at Polartek in 2018, when the company established a structural design unit through a business acquisition. Before that, we pretty much used our own Excel spreadsheets and clunky programs that gave us immediate results by entering output data. Tekla Tedds has the same idea of rapid action, plus parameterised functionality.
- The implementation of Tekla Tedds in the company is consistent, and each dialogue is quite clearly guided. We use the predefined calculation bases that come with the software, and we also have dimensioning bases developed under the supervision of the engineering department," says Hopia.
