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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.