A Legacy of Performance and Growth

Doosan Bobcat is synonymous with skid-steer loaders and produces more than all other brands combined—a powerful testament to quality products and customer satisfaction. The company is on a strong growth path, launching tractors and mowers, among other products for grounds maintenance, and acquiring Doosan Material Handling (DIV), adding material-handling equipment and that segment’s high growth potential to its portfolio. Doosan Bobcat continues to create new solutions for its customers’ toughest equipment challenges. 

Solving Process Instability in a Rapidly Scaling Operation

Bobcat’s commitment to quality begins with establishing stable processes for producing high-quality parts. However, the company was rapidly outgrowing its legacy software, leading to challenges in maintaining consistent processes. This system’s programming limitations meant that critical data was not being captured or effectively communicated across the organization, resulting in frustration and delays. 

Quality team members lacked confidence in the effectiveness of their measurement and improvement efforts, and there were concerns that key insights were not reaching the appropriate stakeholders. In short, the right data was not being accessed by the right people, undermining the overall effectiveness of the quality processes. 

Driving Digital Transformation with PolyWorks|Inspector Gauging and PolyWorks|DataLoop

Digital transformation includes where data is acquired, how it is stored and accessed, and how it is displayed to those who need it. Powerful and robust 3D data measurement performance without the requirement of learning proprietary programming languages makes PolyWorks|Inspector Gauging, together with PolyWorks|DataLoop, a force multiplier for quality decision-making.

A Doosan Bobcat quality engineer demonstrates a Mitutoyo digital micrometer used with PolyWorks|Inspector Gauging. Image courtesy of Doosan Bobcat North America.

PolyWorks|Inspector Gauging delivers the power to measure, edit, revise, and review parts and projects directly on the shop floor, in a format operators will actually enjoy using, combined with effective data storage and sharing across the entire Bobcat organization. Metrology programmers with little to no previous PolyWorks^® experience can create programs in minutes, vastly increasing the amount, speed, and efficiency of decisions related to product quality.

PolyWorks|Inspector Gauging displayed on a workstation screen, showing dimensional analysis and real-time measurement of a 3D part. Image courtesy of Doosan Bobcat North America.

Key advantages of this digital shift include:
• Rapid program creation: Programmers can build and revise measurement routines in minutes.
• Shop floor empowerment: Operators receive intuitive 3D guidance, CAD references, and visual work instructions.
• Enterprisewide visibility: All measurement data is stored centrally and shared securely across teams.
• Faster decisions: Quality insights reach the right people at the right time, improving responsiveness and process control.

A Force Multiplier for Measurement Efficiency and Quality Decision-Making

Capturing, accessing, and sharing the right data is at the heart of Bobcat’s digital transformation journey. Equally important is ease of use—shop floor personnel report that PolyWorks|Inspector Gauging is vastly easier to use than their previous software. PolyWorks|Inspector Gauging adds 3D measurement guidance to its robust data acquisition and sharing toolbox. 

Operators can refer to CAD models, specific work instructions, and images when using tools they may not be familiar with. Furthermore, all point cloud and metrology data is available from a high-speed database, meaning an operator’s work is effectively and securely available to more people across the entire organization. These results are notably boosting measurement efficiency and improving collaboration as well as quality decision-making like never before.