On Saturday November 19th, Maria, VP of DriveWorks team will be travelling to India with Chris, Mark and Tom from the DriveWorks team to host DriveWorks Training and Certification.
The team will be in India from 19th – 26th November and during their time they will be visiting some of our Value AddedResellers, Customers and our new Services Partner, Hi-Tech Outsourcing Services.
From Monday to Wednesday, Chris and Tom will be working through the DriveWorks Training and Certificationin Bangalore. Maria and Mark will be visiting customers, completing sales training with our Resellers and meeting withthe CEO of Hi-Tech Outsourcing Services.
On Wednesday evening the whole team will fly to Pune, where Chris and Tom will complete the Training and Certification with another group of Resellers. Maria and Mark will catch up with more customers and meet another representative from Hi-Tech OS.
This will be our first visit to India and we’re really excited, watch this space for a round up of our travels!
“We are really excited about the event in India. We wantto show our commitment to our resellers, our existing customers and to the wider Indian SOLIDWORKS Community. Our goal is to provide DriveWorks Resellers in India with the opportunity to take DriveWorks training from our own DriveWorks Technical experts. We will also provide guidance on the benefits of using DriveWorksand how local resellers are best placed tosupport the software.“
“We will be visiting two locations Pune and Bengaluru. This is a really good opportunity for everyone to increase their knowledge of DriveWorks and learn more about Automation and Configuration (CPQ for manufacturing) using DriveWorks”
– Maria Sarkar
Vice President DriveWorks
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Blue Giant Equipment Corporation were founded in 1963 and initially specialised in the manufacture of dock levelers and hand pallet trucks.
Since then the company has grown rapidly with the addition of innovative technology, expanded product offerings and worldwide manufacturing and distribution facilities. Their renowned product line includes: dock levelers, ground-level lifts, vehicle restraints, intelligent dock controls and a diverse range of material handling products.
With over 8 million product combinations, Blue Giant were in need of a more simplified configuration solution.
They now use DriveWorks Pro to power ConfigureBLUE, their online parts configurator for use by their worldwide Authorised Dealers and Sales Teams.
The configurator is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and removes the confusion and learning curve often associated with configuring a solution from catalogues.
ConfigureBLUE is tied directly to Blue Giants internal manufacturing response planning (MRP) system and typically a quote will be received via email within seconds of configuring a solution.
By using DriveWorks, ConfigureBLUE generates 2D and 3D drawings and models to the customers exact specification and the drawing package is received within minutes of the request.
We use DriveWorks for quoting and approval drawings for almost 160 teams and 530 users. We also use DriveWorks for production part component generation for various product lines and a whole bunch of other great stuff! – Christopher Zona, Manager – Systems Automation.
Members of the Blue Giant team regularly join us at our annual technical training event, DriveWorks World. Not only do they participate in our training sessions, they also present to other attendees and share their success.
Christopher Zona and Raymond Rosana of Blue Giant discussing their project with DriveWorks CEO, Glen SmithDriveWorks World 2016.
“As we started planning the Fall SWUG tour of the Chicago area, no one could have predicted that for the first time in 70 years the Chicago Cubs would be competing for the World Series Championship of Baseball.
It’s been over 100 years since they have won a championship, so there is a fantastic electricity in the air that I felt as soon as I landed at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on Tuesday afternoon.
A great and proud time to be from the Chicago area and everyone was showing their Cubs pride!”
“The Chicago SOLIDWORKS User Group met on Tuesday 25th Octoberat Oakton Community college. While there may have been a baseball game on TV that evening, 20 people attended and we networked whilst eating Chicago style pizza.
Group leader Denny Bahl discussed the various SOLIDWORKS 2017 roll out events he had attended as well as the group meeting schedule for the next few months leading up to SOLIDWORKS World 2017.
It’s great when we have a chance to share who we are at DriveWorks and what we do. I presented about DriveWorks and DriveWorksXpress and it becomes much more than just showing folks how they can start to use the free design automation tool inside of SOLIDWORKS.
While the Chicago Cubs may have lost the opening game that evening, there were no losers in the room that night as they left after eating good food and having great discussions around the SOLIDWORKS Community.”
“The next morning I made my way to Aurora, Illinois to join the Chicago West SOLIDWORKS User Groupwho met at the Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove. This group is also lead by Denny Bahl – he leads TWO groups – what a dedicated guy!
We were a small group of about seven, but still had a very successful meeting. Getting my pizza fix for a second night in a row, we listened to the team from the Waubonsee Community College Workforce Development Group speak about the courses offered as well as local partnerships with employers that are working on connecting students with jobs, and vice versa.
Once again I had the privilege of speaking about the DriveWorks team and our products.Not only was the group engaged in discussion around DriveWorksXpress, but folks were taking a few of our ‘Activate to Automate’ beer mats back to their offices to share with others on their team!”
“As I reached the end of my DriveWorks Fall SWUG tour of Chicago I found myself in Rockford, Illinois. Thomas Clark, group leader of the Rockford Area SOLIDWORKS User Group, hosted me at Rock Valley College to present once again on DriveWorks and DriveWorksXpress.
This evening there were no baseball games being played and I was thrilled to have a full room of around 20-25 attendees. A full room is always great as there is a lot of information sharing and it’s just a great, busy space to be a part of.
The meeting was a great success and the presentation on DriveWorks and DriveWorksXpress was met with great interest and lots of questions. I came out of the meeting with none of the “Activate to Automate” beer mats that I brought with me on the trip. That’s always a good sign and I promised to send along a few more for the leader to give out to those that didn’t get one.”
As I sat in the airport on Friday morning awaiting my flight home the place was buzzing once again. People were arriving back into Chicago to watch the next baseball game of the World Series, making their way out on vacation and students were coming and going to and from college.
Goodbye Chicago! It’s been a great trip and I’ll be sure to see you again in the future..so many user groups, so little time!
