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Looking Ahead to DriveWorks World 2025
DriveWorks World offers a unique opportunity to develop your DriveWorks skills through technical learning sessions on a wide range of topics. Connect with a global community of DriveWorks users to share knowledge, gain insights, and expand your network. With a flexible virtual format featuring live and on-demand sessions, you won’t miss out on anything, and registration is free for DriveWorks customers with an active subscription, resellers, and partners.
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Reducing Lead Times For Custom Products
Manufacturers of custom products have to balance complex customization with the fast pace of modern manufacturing. Traditional manufacturing processes, often set up for standard products, can be slow with a high degree of manual input, resulting in inefficient workflows. CPQ for manufacturing technology enables manufacturers of custom products to streamline complex design processes, make workflows between teams more efficient, and reduce lead times.
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See You at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2025
3DEXPERIENCE® World 2025 is taking place in Houston, TX, February 23 – 26, 2025. Mark your calendar and prepare for an exciting, in-person experience! We’re a Silver Sponsor and will be exhibiting, presenting, learning, and networking. Come and find us at Booth #834 in the 3DEXPERIENCE Playground. The early bird discount for 3DEXPERIENCE World 2025 ends on December 9th. Don’t miss out on your chance to register early and take advantage of the discounted rate today.
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Coming up in December
Every month, the DriveWorks team hosts a program of webinars designed to enhance your understanding of DriveWorks. The webinars are run by DriveWorks technical experts, and provide valuable insights, with the opportunity to ask questions. These sessions are perfect if you want to explore the capabilities of DriveWorks or need practical tips and tricks for starting your first DriveWorks project. Find out more about what’s coming up this month.
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5 Customer Success Stories: Design Automation
Seeing how other companies use DriveWorks is a great way of understanding how our technology works. It enables you to see how other companies have adopted our technology across a range of different industries and the benefits they’ve achieved with design automation. Seeing real-world examples and business metrics enables you to think about how you could incorporate design automation technology into your processes and the efficiencies you could benefit from.
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Why DriveWorks is the Ultimate CPQ for Manufacturing Solution
Whether you’re just starting your CPQ journey or looking to optimize an existing solution, DriveWorks blogs offer a wealth of knowledge to guide you every step of the way. We’ve compiled a roundup of our recent blogs to help you learn more about and understand the benefits of CPQ, and to demonstrate why DriveWorks is the ultimate CPQ for manufacturing solution. We’ve also included examples of how DriveWorks customers have improved their business metrics with the implementation of DriveWorks technology.
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DriveWorks Challenge 7 – Still Time To Take Part!
Have you submitted your entry for DriveWorks Challenge 7 yet? Entries close on November 29th, so if you’re considering taking part, there’s still time! Challenge 7 is all about dynamic 3D and it’s designed to be a fun way to showcase your DriveWorks skills and pick up some new tips and tricks. It’s intended to be inclusive and achievable, regardless of your level of DriveWorks knowledge. We provide individual feedback on all DriveWorks challenge submissions, so even if you don’t win a prize, you’ll receive feedback on your challenge project to help you with your future implementations.
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From Concept to Manufacturing in Record Time
Integrating design automation into your design process enables your teams to work smarter, and your business to be more flexible and efficient. Regardless of the size of your business, or how complex your product configurations are, design automation can improve productivity and take you from concept to manufacturing in record time.
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Just released: DriveWorks 22 SP2
Download the latest DriveWorks release today. DriveWorks Resellers and Customers with an Active Subscription Support Contract can now download DriveWorks 22 SP2 from the MyDriveWorks Community. We always recommend being on the latest version to take advantage of any security enhancements, bug fixes, and new features.
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Making digital transformation work for your business
Digital transformation in manufacturing refers to integrating digital technologies into all areas of the manufacturing process. It replaces manual tasks with digital tools and encompasses changes that manufacturers make to their design, sales, and production processes to streamline workflows and reduce bottlenecks. Digital tools are revolutionizing how manufacturers run their businesses, providing more opportunities for efficiency, accuracy, and customer satisfaction.
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Accelerating speed to market with DriveWorks
Getting new products to market quickly and efficiently is challenging for many businesses. The challenge is significant for manufacturers of custom or semi-custom products, as traditional design processes can often take significantly longer than standard product workflows. Design automation and CPQ technology enable manufacturers of custom products to streamline complex design processes, reduce costs, and get their products to market quicker.
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Scaling Custom Production with CPQ: Optimizing Pricing and Quoting Processes
Implementing a CPQ solution to optimize pricing and quoting enables businesses to manage increased demand and drive growth, without compromising accuracy, efficiency, or customer satisfaction. Because DriveWorks is modular, scalable, and incredibly versatile, our customers use our technology in many different ways, building a CPQ solution to suit their needs and scale with their business.
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DriveWorks World 2025 Agenda Preview
DriveWorks World is your opportunity to connect with hundreds of DriveWorks users from around the world to exchange insights, discover the latest updates, and explore how to maximize the power of DriveWorks technology. DriveWorks World 2025 will start on 8th April with a reseller preview event and continue on 9th and 10th April for DriveWorks users and resellers. Register for your place now and stay up to date with DriveWorks World 2025 news, including the full agenda reveal, as we announce more details about the event.
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How To Shorten Your Sales Cycle
For manufacturers of custom products, long sales cycles are a common challenge. By adopting digital tools such as design automation, CPQ, guided selling, and 3D configurators, manufacturers can significantly shorten their sales cycles. Enabling a streamlined purchase process, faster response times, and fewer opportunities for error, contribute to making it easier to design and sell even the most complex of custom products.
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DriveWorks Customer Success Story: Autex
Manufacturers across a range of different industries benefit from using DriveWorks design automation, product configurator, and CPQ software. Autex Acoustics Ltd specializes in the development and production of innovative interior acoustic and insulation products. Autex wanted to improve its efficiency when closing deals, reduce its quote cycle times, and enable its sales team to sell more. Building a robust CPQ solution using DriveWorks technology helped them to achieve these goals.