DriveWorks customer, Industrial Magnetics are using our software astheir design automation solution, enhancing their automation journey with SOLIDWORKS and moving beyond engineering.
IMI is an industry leader in providing both permanent magnets and electromagnets for work holding, lifting, fixturing, conveying and magnetic separation. The company specializes in providing personalized service, innovative solutions, and custom fabrication designing, engineering and manufacturing industrial-grade magnetic products to meet customers specific requirements.
One of our Value Added Resellers, Fisher Unitechworked with Industrial Magnetics to learn more about how DriveWorks serves as the company’s automation operating system for tasks ranging from the creation of 3D models and detailed drawings to the generation of quotes and even Bills of Materials for manufacturing.
A significant piece of IMIs business is creating custom products per customer requests. With hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of legacy models, keeping pace with design changes to support these customizations while maintaining the desired pace for standard product releases proved challenging.
Already usingSOLIDWORKS 3D CADsoftware, IMI wanted to take an integrated approach to improve operations, with tools to accelerate product development, reduce the cost of custom designs and orders, enhance product quality and provide fast responses to customer requests.
With the help of Fisher Unitech, IMI decided DriveWorks wasthe best software for their needs.
We pride ourselves on building just about anything to meet a customers needs and were looking for efficiency improvements to work smarter and faster.
-David Dewey, Engineer with Industrial Magnetics.
Fisher Unitech was instrumental in helping us get this project off the ground. Their technical team had the ability to shift from the minutia of clarifying product specifications, to helping us navigate the culture change of this deployment, showing an impressive range of skills and support.
–David Dewey, Engineer with Industrial Magnetics.
IMI is a middle market, privately-held corporation, which has cultivated a culture that values and supports the talents of its employees. The company recognizes that tapping into the creativity of its staff plays a key role in maintaining the companys success supporting a trajectory of 10 percent year-over-year revenue growth.
Customers can now see exactly what was configured and what they will receive, long before engineering has to sink the time in to generate a complete model with full production details.
– David Dewey, Engineer with Industrial Magnetics.
With DriveWorks at the core, the company has integrated its CRM and ERP system, creating a centralized platform to support day-to-day operations.
Everyone in the process stream customers, sales, engineering and manufacturing can now see the same information, said Dewey. DriveWorks serves as the interface to all our business systems, tools, models, terminology and users.
As a result of the integration of DriveWorks and SOLIDWORKS with the companys ERP system, IMI cut the task of creating a Bill of Materials down to a single click from within SOLIDWORKS a step that used to take up to four minutes and was conducted by all eight engineers multiple times per day. Now, the process is automated, adding in extra layers of error checking and streamlining the steps to eliminate manual intervention.
IMIs long-term goal is to expand its use of DriveWorks and SOLIDWORKS, adding more users along the way looking for opportunities to automate mundane or error-prone processes within engineering, marketing, sales and management.
Our team at Fisher Unitech said to think of DriveWorks not as an app, but as a development environment, said Dewey. Our company has embraced that philosophy, giving us the power and freedom to create tools that help us work better and smarter across the board. And, were just getting started.
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DriveWorks product configurator software is used by companies of all sizes. It’s suitable for any industry where quotes or 3D files and drawings are part of the sales to manufacturing process.
See how versatile and customizable it is by having a go with our online configurator examples on www.driveworkslive.com
On June 6th,the Seattle Area SOLIDWORKS Power User Group are hosting a“Connecting Curious Minds – A Celebration of Community, Creativity and Digital Fabrication”event at Lake Washington Institute of Technology and we’re proud to be sponsoring!
Seattle-area YouTube celebrity Joel Telling, a.k.a. ‘3D Printing Nerd’ will be presenting along with London, England SOLIDWORKS User Group leader and noted videogame propmaker/cosplay artist Kirby Downey.
In addition to this, Christina Cyr, Seattle-based entrepreneur/maker will be talking about her DIY mobile phone project.Sophy Wong, a multi-disciplinary designer, maker and writer will be presenting to the group about her recent projects,involving spacesuits, costuming and wearable tech.
Attendees will have the chance to meet & network with an incredibly diverse gathering of artists, engineers, designers, makers and creators representing many creative disciplines.
Lake Washington Institute of Technology
11605 132nd Ave NE
Auditorium W404
Kirkland, WA 98034
United States
Register here to explore the spectrum of 3D modeling, digital fabrication and maker communities present in the greater Seattle area!
This week Christophe, Technical Expert from Visiativ, DriveWorks and SOLIDWORKS Reseller in France, joined us here at DriveWorks HQ.
Christophe spent time catching up with Glen & Maria, CEO and VP of DriveWorks.
He also had discussions with members of the Technical Team about What’s New in DriveWorks 17. The team presented topics to help Christophe keep his knowledge up to date and provide the best support to Visiativ’s customers.
Christophe arrived at the office in his best shirt too – proudly displaying his Visiativ logo and Certified DriveWorks Professional logo!
Thanks for coming Christophe, it was great to see you!
We’re hosting a What’s New DriveWorks 17 webinar series. Join Mike Loftus, our Technical Specialist as he takes you through all of the new features and enhancements in DriveWorks Pro 17.
Over the next few weeks, Mike will take a closer look at the new functionality in DriveWorks 17 including; Design Automation, Usability and User Experience, Scalability and DriveWorks 3D.
DriveWorks 17 has just been released. This latest version is now available to download from the DriveWorks Community.
At DriveWorks World 2019, Glen Smith, CEO of DriveWorks shared the latest updates, features and functionality in DriveWorks Pro 17. Already established as worldwide market leader in automating SOLIDWORKS, this release of DriveWorks adds even more detailed customer-led enhancements.
Throughout the training and sessions at DriveWorks World 2019, delegates used DriveWorks, learning how to make the most of the new features and enhancements.
DriveWorks Pro 17 adds enhancements and new features in the following 4 areas:
We’re hosting a What’s New DriveWorks 17 webinar series. Join Mike Loftus, our Technical Specialist as he takes you through all of the new features and enhancements in DriveWorks Pro 17.
DriveWorks Resellers and Customers with anActiveSubscription Support Contract can download DriveWorks 17 from the DriveWorks Community.
Here’s what you’ll need to download the latest release:
*If you’re a DriveWorks Reseller AE, your DriveWorks 17 demo codes have been emailed to you. If you’re a DriveWorks customer with active subs, your codes have been sent to your reseller who will pass them on to you.If you haven’t received your DriveWorks 17 license codes yet, please email us.
At DriveWorks World 2019, Glen Smith, CEO of DriveWorks shared the latest updates, features and functionality in DriveWorks 17. The room was full of excitement and the feedback we received for DriveWorks 17 was excellent.
Throughout the training and sessions at DriveWorks World 2019, delegates used DriveWorks, learning how to make the most of the new features and enhancements.
DriveWorks Pro 17 sees enhancements and new features in the following areas:
Generation Tasks, Model Insight and streamlined rule building deliver powerful and flexible SOLIDWORKS速 automation.
Making implementing DriveWorks easier, quicker and more enjoyable than ever before.
New tools and features simplify enterprise wide deployment and management of DriveWorks further enhancing its scalability.
Enhanced realism, real-time 3D text, improved performance. Configure products and show complex designs in dynamic 3D.
We’re hosting a What’s New DriveWorks 17 webinar series. Join Mike Loftus, our Technical Specialist as he takes you through all of the new features and enhancements in DriveWorks Pro 17.
DriveWorks Resellers and Customers with anActiveSubscription Support Contract can download DriveWorks 17 from the DriveWorks Community.
Here’s what you’ll need to download the latest release:
*If you’re a DriveWorks Reseller AE, your DriveWorks 17 demo codes have been emailed to you. If you’re a DriveWorks customer with active subs, your codes have been sent to your reseller who will pass them on to you.If you haven’t received your DriveWorks 17 license codes yet, please email us.
As the release of DriveWorks 17 approaches,Solid Solutions Group, the UK’s largest authorised SOLIDWORKS and DriveWorks reseller, sent 10 members of their technical team to our HQ.
Adam, Rob, Dave, Haseeb, Jon, Mark, Paul, Rob, Spencer, and Will spent the day with different members of the DriveWorks team, learning What’s New in DriveWorks 17 and refreshing their DriveWorks knowledge.
They also enjoyed fish and chips at lunchtime, which they ordered from our internal DriveWorks fish and chips configurator!
Solid Solutions are the UK’s largest SOLIDWORKS reseller and have office locations all around the country. They have a strong technical team with over 30 Elite Applications Engineers.
This team of 10 are also highly knowledgable in DriveWorks and continue to show their commitment to keeping their knowledge up to date by regularly catching up with our team and visiting our offices.
IN RE UABare a modern technology and innovation companyoperating in Industry 4.0 and Building 4.0 to master and efficiently use the world’s leading innovative digital platforms for design, production and product life cycle support.
With over 20 years of experience implementing and practically applying information technologies in the fields of automated design, production preparation, and technological process management.
Their team of expertshave many years of experience in the deployment of industry-standard products. Theyre also dedicated to continually improving their knowledge and professional skills.
Theyre an authorized SOLIDWORKS reseller and Bentley Systems Gold Partner. Were pleased that they are now selling and supporting DriveWorks software too.
Welcome to the DriveWorks community, IN RE UAB!
Last week our team were in Chicago, joined by over 180 customers, resellers and partners for a week of learning, networking and sharing ideas.
We revealed What’s New in DriveWorks 17 and presented training, hands-on learning and advanced sessions.
MicroTek Chicago provided the ideal base for technical training and being in the heart of downtown Chicago meant there was plenty of opportunity for networking each evening!
On Monday and Tuesday, 5 rooms full of delegates took the DriveWorks Pro Essentials Training and then went on to take the DriveWorks Pro Certification. At DriveWorks World 2019, 85 people became Certified DriveWorks Professionals (CDWPs).
We also introduced the brand new DriveWorks Pro Sales Configurator training, for those who aren’t automating any CAD. Another room of delegates sat this training to learn about building a great sales configurator.
On Tuesday evening we took over the basement of a British themed bar where we served fish and chips, bangers and mash, curry and beer whilst Glen Smith, CEO of DriveWorks revealed What’s New in DriveWorks 17.
The room was full of excitement as the latest features, functionality and updates were shown.
From Wednesday to Friday, we then hosted 97 sessions, covering different topics at a variety of skill levels. The sessions were a mix of hands-on technical training, presentations and discussions.
The sessions ranged from core topics such as rules, 3D, workflow, design automation, to newer trends such as 3D printing, CPQ, the cloud, business process automation and digital transformation.
Before the event, delegates built their own agenda, choosing the sessions that suited them best.
Throughout the week, a variety of companies shared with us the many different ways they use DriveWorks.
It’s always fascinating to see how everyone uses DriveWorks differently. There were presentations on designing custom saws, configuring conveyors, roller shutter doors and van interiors and one delegate even showed us how they’ve created a game of poker in DriveWorks!
Using DriveWorks software is changing the way our customers do business.
DriveWorks World 2019 got off to a great start with over 100 delegates joining us to sit the DriveWorks Pro Essentials Training and the brand new Sales Configurator Training!
46 delegates have got certified so far with certifications still happening during the rest of the week.
Congratulations to all the new Certified DriveWorks Professionals and thank you to everyone who has joined us so far!
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Elephant and Castle for the Whats New in DriveWorks 17 event!
DriveWorks World attendees are always the first to see and use the latest release of our software.
It was a full house as Glen, our CEO, presented the Whats New, revealing all the exciting new features inDriveWorks 17!
We celebrated the new features with beer and British food and chatted with delegates about the training they had just taken and the sessions they were looking forward to over the next few days.
Thank you to our What’s New Sponsors SOLIDWORKS
Were now looking forward to the rest of the week with the advanced sessions where our delegates will continue to be inspired, learn and share ideas with DriveWorks experts & enthusiasts.
Here’s a snippet of our time here so far, bringing all things Design Automation and CPQ to Chicago!
