Improving accuracy with DriveWorks
Error rates in custom manufacturing are often high because products can be difficult to design, configure, and sell accurately. With so many options available, it’s difficult for sales teams to sell complex custom products effectively, and large volumes of repetitive manual design work can lead to mistakes and bottlenecks.
How does DriveWorks improve accuracy in custom manufacturing?
DriveWorks solves these challenges by simplifying configuration and pricing, automating designs, and guiding sales teams step by step through the selling process. The result is faster quoting, improved accuracy, and a smoother buying experience.
DriveWorks improves accuracy for manufacturers of all sizes and provides design automation, 3D product configurator, and CPQ solutions for a wide range of industries.
DriveWorks technology enables:
- Rules-based engineering to eliminates design errors
- Automated SOLIDWORKS® designs to ensure consistency every time
- Guided selling to prevent misconfiguration
- Automated pricing to protect margins
- Streamlined approvals to speed up response times
- Real-time integration to ensure business data alignment
What are the benefits of improved accuracy?
Improved accuracy in custom manufacturing delivers operational, financial, and customer-focused benefits, including:
- Consistent product quality
- Less rework
- Faster design and sales cycles
- Improved customer satisfaction
- Competitive advantage
- Adherence with regulatory requirements
How DriveWorks improves accuracy
Rules-based engineering logic
DriveWorks enables engineers to efficiently create and manage a wide range of product variations by automating the design process through pre-defined engineering rules and logic.
By capturing expert knowledge and design intent within a set of configuration rules, DriveWorks eliminates repetitive manual tasks and reduces the risk of human error.
Automated SOLIDWORKS generation
DriveWorks automates repetitive, time-consuming SOLIDWORKS tasks and significantly improves accuracy by reducing reliance on manual input and the potential for manual error.
When routine design processes are handled automatically, designs are generated consistently according to pre-defined rules and validated data.
Guided selling
DriveWorks enables sales teams to accurately configure and price custom products and automatically generate accurate quotes. Customers can also self-serve custom products with confidence.
When the configuration process is powered by rules-based technology, only manufacturable products are sold, reducing rework and speeding up quote response times.
Automated pricing logic
Using rules-based pricing logic, DriveWorks ensures that quote pricing is always up to date and accurate.
Complex pricing and discounts that might have previously taken days to put together are automatically calculated, ensuring accuracy and margin optimization.
Streamlined approval workflows
With built-in approval workflows, DriveWorks streamlines the approval process, ensuring the correct teams approve the correct documents.
This improves overall quote accuracy and quote response times, leading to enhanced customer satisfaction.
Real-time data integration
With real-time data integration, DriveWorks eliminates manual data entry and disconnected systems.
Integration with ERP, CRM, and other business systems, product configuration, pricing, and manufacturing documents always reflect current business rules, reducing errors and rework and ensuring business-wide accuracy.
How manufacturers use DriveWorks
Manufacturers across a wide range of industries use DriveWorks to improve accuracy.
“Since we started using DriveWorks, it has greatly helped us to have tremendous reliability in the product definition we create and how we can transmit that definition to the other areas without any errors, without any manual intervention.”
“DriveWorks has played a crucial role in our day to day work, helping us to achieve two important goals: time saving and accuracy“.
Using DriveWorks, IBR generate custom models and drawings with 100% accuracy.
Want to learn more?
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DriveWorks is sold worldwide and supported locally by authorized resellers in your time zone. In addition to providing product support, DriveWorks resellers also offer DriveWorks training programs and can provide guidance on getting started.
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