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Standardizing and Streamlining Hytech-Pommec’s Pneumatic Design Systems

Location The Netherlands
Services Custom-application
Product HydroSym
Time-span 2 months

Key results

  • Reduced design time through replacing manual component handling with HydroSym’s smart tools and standardized component library.

  • 100% consistency in schematics by eliminating symbol size inconsistencies and unlinked data with HydroSym, ensuring uniform, high-quality schematics every time.

  • Seamless integration, as the BOM exports from HydroSym feed directly into Hytech-Pommec’s ERP system, cutting manual entry time and reducing errors.

  • Clear component management through a custom pneumatic database and precise component categorization.

The client

Hytech-Pommec is a leading Dutch company specializing in high-quality diving and hyperbaric equipment. With over 45 years of experience, they serve a global clientele across industries such as commercial diving, tunneling, life support, and medical hyperbaric therapy. Formed from the merger of Hytech B.V. and Pommec B.V., the company combines deep technical expertise with a commitment to innovation, offering integrated systems tailored to meet the most stringent safety and regulatory standards.

What were Hytech-Pommec’s problems?

Using generic design software was causing Hytech-Pommec four time-consuming and expensive problems:

  1. Copying loose symbols from schematic to schematic lead to inconsistent size changes, while leaving the component the same, causing lack in uniformity

  2. Manual pasting resulted in frequently losing essential background information

  3.  Manually numbering components added significant time and increased errors in Bill of Materials

  4. Different names were used for the same components, causing uncertainties that cost more time and led to a higher risk of mistakes

How did Paro help

  • Creating custom-made application of HydroSym so that Hytech-Pommec can use it for creating pneumatic systems.

  • Developing a new database with pneumatic information.

  • Categorizing components individually, and by variables including pressure, flow and connecting size. 

  • Integrating components with Hytech-Pommec’s ERP-system, so Bill of Materials lists, made by HydroSym based on drawings, could be exported to the ERP system as an XML file. 

  • In addition to a faster import, the details can also be altered more easily. If a change is made in the list, the change is passed through in the schematics as the information remains linked.

“Paro Software has shown that it is an excellent partner that cooperates with its customers and is open to improve its products.”
- Joost Voermans - Engineer, Hytech-Pommec

Impact 

  • The new working method with HydroSym improved both the design and maintenance phases.

  • Integrating HydroSym into Hytech-Pommec’s production processes led to a strong improvement and increased the speed of the design and thinking processes.

  • Manufacturer of diving applications Hytech-Pommec standardized and improved its design process with the design software HydroSym of Paro Software.

  • Higher efficiency for project processing.

  • Today, we’re proud that Paro software is now a full partner of Hytech-Pommec for both the realization and the use of the software.

Conclusion

By replacing outdated workflows with HydroSym, Hytech-Pommec streamlined design, improved accuracy, and unlocked new efficiency across their entire process. Today, they're not just using smarter tools — they’re setting a new standard in pneumatic system design.