Meet the increasing demand for custom, bespoke and personalised products to gain a competitive edge. Generate quotes in record time, reduce the cost of custom designs and show off your configurable products in 3D, all with DriveWorks CPQ.
Meet the increasing demand for custom, bespoke and personalised products to gain a competitive edge. Generate quotes in record time, reduce the cost of custom designs and show off your configurable products in 3D, all with DriveWorks CPQ.
DriveWorks configurator software is the ultimate choice in 3D CPQ for manufacturing.
DriveWorks software is optimised for sales and engineering teams and has been rigorously tested and endorsed by real manufacturing companies, as well as by Microsoft and SOLIDWORKS as Gold Partners.
The ability to configure, price and quote easily has become essential for manufacturing companies of all sizes, in all industries. Customised products are becoming the norm. Transform the way you do business by closing the gap between initial sales inquiry and manufactured product with DriveWorks CPQ for manufacturing.
Break free from the constraints of conventional configurators. DriveWorks configurators look and work great on any device, allowing you and your customers to configure custom designs anywhere.
DriveWorks configurators are easy to set up with no programming skills or consultants required. Empower your sales teams, distributors and customers to configure complex custom designs quickly and easily.
Impress your customers from the start with an easy to use configurator and quick, accurate quotes and responses. Respond quicker and better than your competitors and win more orders.
Providing more than just CPQ, DriveWorks product configurators are based on rules, calculations and logic, improving the quality of outputs, reducing costly errors and strengthening your reputation.
Let your customers see their custom products in impressive 3D and view the effects of their design changes immediately.
Automatically send eye catching branded documents that are personalised to each customer and order.
Get started really quickly by customising our Sales Configurator and Catalogue templates with our intuitive Form Designer.
An easy to use workflow provides seamless links between teams as well as company systems such as CRM, ERP and CAD.
Reduce repetitive tasks by automating customer responses and repetitive engineering tasks.
Additional modules can be added as and when you need them to create a product configurator that suits your needs.
Try out one of the many configurator examples on DriveWorksLive.com.
Next week we’re on the road again, as Glen and Chris from the DriveWorks team will be joining DriveWorks Reseller, New Technology CADCAM, at a couple of their Great British Engineering Roadshow (GBER) events.
On Tuesday 1st November Glen will be in Sheffield and on Thursday 3rd November Chris will join NT CADCAM in Telford. They’ll be presenting about DriveWorks, our company and products.
These events are a great opportunity to find out more about SOLIDWORKS 2017, hear great speakers talking about engineering and manufacturing success stories galore and network with your peers. Register below to secure your place.
This release is a Service Pack that focuses on bug fixes and compatibility with SOLIDWORKS 2017. Make sure you head to the DriveWorks Community and download 14 SP 2 now.
As ever we have tested the updates rigorously across SOLIDWORKS and Windows Operating Systems (x32 and x64) to maintain reliability.
All DriveWorks Solo and Pro Customers with an active Subscription Support Contract and all Authorized DriveWorks Resellers can download the latest release now from the DriveWorks Community.
If you havent already, visit hub.driveworks.co.uk and create an account, youll then be able to download the new DriveWorks Service Pack.
The download should take no more than 30 minutes.
As with any upgrade, remember to take a back up of your data!
If you are working in a multi-user environment make sure you upgrade all of the DriveWorks Modules e.g. DriveWorks Administrator, Autopilot, any DriveWorks User licenses, DriveWorks Live AND of course DriveWorks Pro Server.
The DriveWorks online help files have been updated togive you all of the informationyou need to get started with this latest service pack.
As a SOLIDWORKS Gold Partner product, were really keen to get involved with the SOLIDWORKS community.
At the end of OctoberHeather, who is involved in running the SWUGN Sponsorship program here at DriveWorks,is heading to Illinois to present at three SOLIDWORKS user group meetings.
At each meeting Heather willpresent about DriveWorks and DriveWorksXpress, showing attendees just how simple it is to Activate to Automate and save time in some of your same but different daily design work.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to network and refreshments will be provided. There will also be Q & A sessions and prize raffles!
When?
Tuesday 25th October 2016
Where?
Oakton Comunity College
Des Plaines Campus
1600 E. Golf Road
Des Plaines, Illinois 60016
When?
Wednesday 26th October 2016
Where?
Waubonsee Community College
Sugar Grove Campus
4S783 Illinois Rt. 47
Sugar Grove, Illinois 60554
When?
Thursday 27th October 2016
Where?
Rock Valley College
Woodward Technology Centre 1308
3301 N. Mulford Road
Rockford, Illinois 61114
Watch this space for more information about the events and don’t forget – if you’re a SWUGN leader and you need our help please get in touch!
DriveWorks World 2017 will be held at the Twelve Atlantic Station hotel in Atlanta, Georgia from the 6th-10th March 2017.
DriveWorks World is your chance to learn, network & share ideas with DriveWorks experts & enthusiasts. There will be something of interest and value to you, whether you are new to DriveWorks, or are an advanced user of the software.
Join us to be inspired and advance your knowledge.
Monday to Wednesday:
Track One: DriveWorks Pro Training & Certification
Track Two: Advanced DriveWorks Training & Workshops
Thursday:
DriveWorks World including:
Tailor your DriveWorks World experience by choosing which track you will follow from Monday to Wednesday. On Thursday, both tracks will join together for the main DriveWorks World event.
Track One
Ideal if you are quite new to DriveWorks, need a refresher or are working towards your DriveWorks Pro Certification.
Track Two
Ideal for experienced users and if you have already completed your DriveWorks Pro Certification.
DriveWorks World is open to all DriveWorks customers with an active Subscription Support Contract, Reseller Applications Engineers and DriveWorks Partners.
This week Heather from the DriveWorks Team has been out and about attending severalevents where she was able to talk with both SOLIDWORKSand DriveWorks customers.
The first stop for Heather was Computer Aided Technology’s Design Innovation Summit on 4th October.
This very successful and well attended event hosted a full agenda including ‘Whats new in SOLIDWORKS 2017’. CATI Application Engineers also presented on everything from SOLIDWORKS Electrical to SOLIDWORKS Simulation to discussions around 3D Scanning and Rapid Prototyping.
DriveWorks was a proud sponsor of this event and we had a booth in the Productivity Zone where we were able to talk with SOLIDWORKS customers, existing DriveWorks customers and others interested in learning about our software.
On Wednesday5th OctoberHeather headed to the Western Massachusetts SOLIDWORKS User Group, held at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts with group leader John Matrishon.
For those who may not know John, he is one of the founding members of the Bacon Brotherhood at SOLIDWORKS World. While there was no bacon served at this meeting, it was well attended with a combination of students, teachers and local SOLIDWORKS users.
Jay Pinheiro, Sales Engineer at Fisher Unitech, started the evening with an engaging discussion and presentation about SOLIDWORKS Productivity Tools.
Heather then presented about DriveWorks and DriveWorksXpress, showing the attendees just how simple it is to Activate to Automate and save time in some of your same but different daily design work.
Closing out the evening group leader, John Matrishon, gave a small glimpse of a project that he is currently working on where he is designing a cigar box guitar. He also showed off a guitar made for him by Central Florida SWUG leader Casey Gorman.
Heather hit the road once again on Thursday evening to attend and present at the Rhode Island/Southern Massachusetts SOLIDWORKS User Group meeting, RISOMA, held at Sensata Technologies in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
The evenings agenda was full of content ranging from Paul Parise discussing the Secrets of the Universe, using SOLIDWORKS to Heather presenting once again on how easy it is to Activate to Automate DriveWorksXpress inside of SOLIDWORKS.
Tom Cote closed the meeting with his own presentation discussing ‘The Implementation of a PDM System’.
This was a great meeting and there was also some really tasty food for the attendees whohad the pleasure of dining on as close as you can get to homemade Polish American food (pierogis, kielbasa and golabkis) provided by Pattis Pierogi in Fall River, Massachusetts – they have been on the Food Network!
Thanks to Robert Wing, group leader, for having us sponsor and present at this meeting!
If youre a SWUGN leader and you need our help, or if youd like to contribute towards the monthly newsletter, please get in touch!
