More designs in less time with DriveWorks technology

Produce more designs, with improved accuracy, in less time

And free up engineering time for higher-value work

In manufacturing companies that produce customized products, design engineering teams often spend a large amount of time working on repetitive manual design tasks for products that are “the same, but different.” When manufacturing custom products, relying on traditional CAD workflows can slow design workflows and create bottlenecks, leading to errors, delays, and lost sales.

Design automation provides a solution to these challenges. By automating repetitive, time‑critical design tasks at the start of the process, manufacturers can scale design output without scaling engineering effort. The result is not just faster design cycles, but more engineering time to allocate to higher‑value initiatives, including innovation, product differentiation, and long‑term growth.

How to speed up design cycles with DriveWorks design automation

Using DriveWorks design automation, manufacturers capture and reuse design, manufacturing, and cost estimation knowledge to produce custom designs faster and with greater accuracy. DriveWorks is exclusively designed for SOLIDWORKS, making it the ideal choice for any manufacturing company using SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD.

DriveWorks design automation enables manufacturers to produce more designs in less time by:

1. Saving and reusing design engineering knowledge
2. Minimizing errors
3. Removing bottlenecks

Saving & reusing design engineering knowledge

Using DriveWorks design automation solution, manufacturers capture design engineering knowledge and convert it into digital rules to automate repetitive CAD tasks. Manual CAD designs that previously took hours are now automatically created in minutes.

This approach also preserves expertise, reduces dependencies on individual engineers, speeds up the onboarding process for new engineers, and ensures consistency across engineering teams in different locations.

Minimizing errors & rework

Large volumes of manual design tasks have an associated risk of errors. Manual errors in the design process can lead to longer design cycle times, incorrect quotes, and unnecessary rework.

DriveWorks uses rules-based design intelligence to automatically generate designs, removing the reliance on checklists and spreadsheets. This reduces the risk of errors and gives engineers confidence in every design variation output.

Removing bottlenecks

Traditional design processes for custom products often involve multiple revisions and inter-departmental exchanges, which can lead to bottlenecks.

Design automation tools intelligently automate these processes, enabling smoother collaboration between teams, removing bottlenecks, and delivering faster design output. Streamlined workflows reduce design times for custom products, enabling manufacturers to increase throughput and produce more designs in less time.

Manufacturers using DriveWorks reduce design time

Manufacturers of all sizes, across all industries, produce more designs in less time with DriveWorks design automation.