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Get the latest news, tips, events and software updates from the DriveWorks team.
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June 2025 DriveWorks Drivers Meeting Round Up
DriveWorks Drivers connects DriveWorks users from around the world, featuring guest speakers sharing their experiences and encouraging questions and dialogue about the technology. Last week, we hosted our June meeting and were joined by over 100 attendees across two meeting times. Find out what we covered in the meeting and register to join us for the next DriveWorks Drivers in September.
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DriveWorks in India
India is an important market for innovation, digital transformation, and technological adoption, and is rapidly embracing design automation technology in manufacturing, engineering, and construction. In recognition of this, we are continuing to develop strong partnerships in the region, ensuring that as many businesses as possible can benefit from DriveWorks technology. Learn more about DriveWorks in India.
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Spotlight on: DriveWorks Technology Examples
Having insight into the technology that powers software solutions helps you to see how the technology could be used in your organization. That’s why we’ve developed a set of DriveWorks Technology Examples, designed to help you explore the core technologies inside our software. They provide you with an in-depth look at DriveWorks, giving you a deeper understanding of the technology that drives our design automation, 3D product configurator, and CPQ solutions.
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June Tech Talk: Best Practices for Updating to a New Version of DriveWorks
Tech Talks webinars provide an opportunity to learn directly from DriveWorks experts, sharing valuable insights and technical tips to help you extend your knowledge, get the most out of your software and learn how you can improve your DriveWorks implementation. Join us in this month to learn about best practices for updating the version of DriveWorks used in your implementation.
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The Five Habits of Successful DriveWorks Implementations
We’ve worked with many companies that have successfully implemented DriveWorks configurators, enabling them to meet their unique business needs and transform their operations. Our extensive experience working with organizations of all sizes, across a wide range of industries worldwide, has given us valuable insight into the key factors that consistently drive successful implementations.
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GH Cranes reduce design time & improve design accuracy
DriveWorks is used by manufacturing companies from a range of industries. GH Cranes is a leading global manufacturer of customized cranes and lifting systems. They sell in over 70 countries and design, engineer, and manufacture all of their products in-house across 10 production plants around the world. They use DriveWorks technology to improve their design time and reduce errors.
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How DriveWorks Makes a Difference For Materials Handling Manufacturers
If you’re a manufacturer of custom materials handling equipment, your teams are probably spending too much time on custom design and manual quoting. Producing accurate quotes, 3D drawings, and BOMs quickly for custom materials handling equipment is key to driving sales and maximizing efficiency. DriveWorks technology transforms how materials handling manufacturers operate by automating complex engineering design tasks and accelerating the sales cycle.
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Coming up in June 2025
Discover more about DriveWorks by joining one of our monthly webinars. Designed to introduce you to DriveWorks technology, these sessions are perfect for anyone new to design automation, product configurators, or CPQ. Each live webinar includes a Q&A session, making it an ideal learning experience. Plus, our team will be attending exclusive in-person events in Canada & Germany, so don’t miss the opportunity to connect with them face-to-face.
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Don’t Miss Out – There’s Still Time to Register for June DriveWorks Drivers
There’s still time to register for your place at our next DriveWorks Drivers meeting on 5th June. It’s a virtual meet-up where users from around the world get together to connect, share, and learn in an interactive and welcoming environment. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just starting out with DriveWorks, there’s something for everyone. Register today!
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Improving customer satisfaction with guided selling in CPQ
Whether you’re selling complex HVAC systems, bespoke furniture solutions, or custom machinery, the expectations of your B2B customers are increasingly influenced by the convenience, speed, and personalization they experience in the B2C world. Guided selling in CPQ enables manufacturers of custom products to make the process of configuration easy for their customers and leads to improved customer satisfaction and increased sales.
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New DriveWorks World 2025 Content Added To The Learning Portal
All of the DriveWorks World 2025 live session recordings can now be found in one place in the DriveWorks Learning Portal. We’ve added each session as a course in the learning portal library to make it easier to navigate and find the best content relevant to you. So, whatever your level of DriveWorks knowledge, and wherever you’re up to with your DriveWorks implementation, there’s a course for you.
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Quick start: Activate DriveWorksXpress for free design automation in SOLIDWORKS®
DriveWorksXpress is an easy-to-use design automation tool included free inside SOLIDWORKS. Our rules-based software enables you to create multiple versions of your SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies, and drawings, quickly and accurately. It’s used by thousands of design engineers to automatically generate new versions of their SOLIDWORKS designs. Activate DriveWorksXpress in 3 easy steps to start your design automation journey today.
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Is design automation right for your manufacturing business?
If your design engineers spend too much time on repetitive tasks, errors are becoming more frequent, and you’re struggling to keep up with demand, it may be time to consider design automation. Slow design and quote turnaround times can frustrate customers and slow down business growth, while increasing configuration complexity makes manual processes even more inefficient. Automating key workflows can streamline operations, reduce errors, and free up your design team to focus on innovation and higher-value work.
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What’s coming up at June DriveWorks Drivers
DriveWorks Drivers is a quarterly virtual networking and knowledge-sharing initiative designed to connect DriveWorks users worldwide. It’s more than just a meeting – it’s a community where you can discuss challenges, explore solutions, and celebrate successes. We will be hosting the next DriveWorks Drivers meeting on Thursday, June 5th at 11am AEST and 3pm BST. Find out what’s on the agenda.
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DriveWorks World 2025 Live Implementation Round Up
The DriveWorks World 2025 live implementation was a real-time implementation that members of the DriveWorks team worked on throughout the event. Their brief was to build an online 3D configurator solution for a custom gate company. The team joined us live in the studio at different points in their implementation process to share their progress and discuss how and why they had implemented specific features and functionality.