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DriveWorks is used by manufacturers in countries all over the world. DriveWorks design automation, 3D product configurator, and CPQ solutions enable manufacturers to automate complex engineering tasks, maintain quality standards, and deliver customized products quickly. Trifibre use DriveWorks to automate SOLIDWORKS® designs and sales documentation with accurate pricing calculations.

Enclosure manufacturers face numerous challenges, including diverse sizes, materials, and environmental ratings, increasing demand for custom builds, strict compliance requirements, lengthy sales cycles, and the risk of costly design errors. DriveWorks streamlines engineering workflows, maintains quality standards, and accelerates both design and sales processes for custom enclosure products.

Today’s B2B customers expect to receive accurate quotes and drawings quickly. But with an engineering design process that’s slow and open to errors, this can be difficult to achieve. Delays in providing designs can result in lost sales and margin erosion. With design automation, drawings for “same but different designs” are generated in minutes, rather than hours.

If you manufacture conveyors, lifts, racking systems, or custom materials handling equipment, your teams are probably spending too much time on custom design and manual quoting. DriveWorks transforms how materials handling manufacturers operate by automating complex engineering design tasks and accelerating the sales cycle. Discover how Schrage Rohrkettensystem GmbH streamline design and quoting processes with DriveWorks.

DriveWorks Drivers is a quarterly virtual get-together for DriveWorks users worldwide. It’s a chance to connect, swap ideas, and dive deep into all things DriveWorks – from the comfort of your own office or home. It’s run over Microsoft Teams, so it’s easy to join from wherever you are in the world. Check out what’s on the agenda for the next DriveWorks Drivers meeting on Thursday, 4th December.

Delivering fast, accurate quotes makes a big difference to quote conversion rates. It can often be the deciding factor in winning business. B2B buyer expectations are increasingly based on their B2C experiences, with speed and accuracy key components of custom product sales. Features such as guided selling, real-time pricing, streamlined approvals, and automated quote generation are key to improving quote cycle times and accuracy rates.

DriveWorks Solo is simple to set up and maintain. Set up once, then run your configurator over and over again to create order-specific SOLIDWORKS® parts, assemblies and drawings. Increase throughput by automating repetitive, time-consuming SOLIDWORKS design tasks, and eliminate errors using intelligent rules-based configuration.

Error rates in custom manufacturing can often be high. Complex configurations are difficult to sell accurately, with the sheer volume of product options requiring detailed product knowledge. Configuration errors lead to increased rework and requote volumes, slowing down the sales process. Custom manufacturers use CPQ to automate complex configuration and pricing, reduce the level of manual input, and improve accuracy levels.

Valve, pump, and cylinder manufacturers need to make configuration easy, provide accurate quotes quickly, and deliver complex custom products. Using DriveWorks design automation, 3D product configurator, and CPQ for manufacturing solutions, they are delivering custom products faster, with greater accuracy, and improved profit margins.

Custom products often involve many different configuration options. It can be difficult for sales teams to communicate multiple product variations and for customers to visualize their finished product. As a result, sales cycles can be slow and inefficient. Incorporating 3D product visualization into your sales process helps to streamline complex configuration, providing sales teams and customers with the ability to rotate, zoom, and change product features, in real time, in a 3D view.