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Smarter custom documents for sales and manufacturing with DriveWorks

Win more business with automated quotes, BOMs, and drawings.

Speed and accuracy are crucial to winning deals and delivering great customer service. Sales teams need to respond quickly with custom product quotes, and manufacturing teams need accurate, production-ready documents to ensure workflows run smoothly. In reality, many manufacturers rely on manual processes to produce “same but different” documents, leading to delays, errors, and lost sales.

Using DriveWorks, manufacturers can automatically create fully customized documents for both sales and production, enabling faster quote turnaround times and streamlined production processes.

Using DriveWorks, you can:

  • Automatically generate sales documents such as quotes, proposals, and order confirmations.
  • Create manufacturing documentation, including drawings, cut lists, and BOMs.
  • Ensure every document is accurate, consistent, and customized to each specific order.
  • Deliver document outputs instantly, for internal teams and customers.

Designed for sales and manufacturing teams

DriveWorks technology connects sales and manufacturing teams across your business.

For sales teams

DriveWorks enables sales teams to produce professional, customised documents in minutes, without needing engineering input for every request. Sales teams can focus on selling, not chasing information or reworking documents.

Benefits include:

  • Faster generation of customer-specific proposals and quotations.
  • Consistent branding and messaging across every document.
  • Faster response times, helping you win more business.

For manufacturing teams

DriveWorks ensures that production teams have accurate, detailed, and standardised documents, automatically generated from the same rules used in the sales process.

This includes:

  • Bills of Materials (BOMs) that reflect every configuration.
  • Saved SOLIDWORKS® parts, assemblies, and drawings in a variety of other formats, including eDrawings, DXF, and PDF.
  • Automatically updated drawings and additional file formats when product designs and specifications are revised.

Custom documents, tailored to your business

Every business has unique requirements, and DriveWorks enables you to create customized documents to meet your specific needs.

Using DriveWorks, you can automatically create a wide range of customizable documents in different formats.

1. SOLIDWORKS® documents

DriveWorks can save your SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies, and drawings in a variety of other formats, including eDrawings, DXF, and PDF.

2. Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel

Automatically create order-specific Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel documents as part of your workflow.

3. JSON, XML, HTML and text

Create, import, and manipulate text-based files automatically.

4. PDFs

Specification Macro tasks make creating and manipulating PDFs without additional software simple.

5. Emails

DriveWorks Autopilot automatically sends emails with generated documents and approval drawings attached.

6. Export images

DriveWorks automatically creates images of configured products to include in documents, enhancing customer experience and streamlining sales processes.

Transform your documents with DriveWorks

Custom documents are more than just paperwork, they are key components in your sales and manufacturing processes.

With DriveWorks document technology you can:

  • Deliver professional, custom branded documents faster
  • Eliminate errors and inconsistencies
  • Improve collaboration between sales and manufacturing
  • Scale your business with confidence

Monmouth Scientific improve customer experience and streamline their sales cycle with DriveWorks

Monmouth Scientific, based in the UK, design and manufacture clean air solutions.

Over 50 members of the Monmouth Scientific team use DriveWorks. Their cleanroom configurator enables salespeople to specify customer requirements using inputs and interactive 3D visualizations. From this, DriveWorks generates a quote document from a template, ensuring consistency. The quote also includes images of the 3D model to improve customer confidence. 

SOLIDWORKS assemblies and drawings are automatically generated, and a list of stock items and a BOM are automatically added to their MRP system, and cut list documents are created.


Discover how DriveWorks can help you create smarter custom documents for sales and manufacturing today


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