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We’ve added a new course to the DriveWorks Learning Portal, exclusively for DriveWorks Pro customers with active subscription, resellers and partners. This course was recorded as part of a Tech Talks live technical webinar broadcast. This session will help you explore whether you should rework, or update, your implementations, and best practices for reworking.

PMF-System, headquartered in Switzerland, is an award-winning start-up company specializing in custom-made furniture for industry. Read about how PMF have used DriveWorks software to make their products available to purchase anytime, anywhere and on any device.

With every release of DriveWorks giving you access to so many new features, have you ever wondered if it’s worth revisiting a Project? This webinar will help you explore whether you should rework, or update, your implementations, and best practices for reworking. The webinar will be hosted on GoToWebinar on Thursday, 18th May at 3pm – 4pm (BST).

European Special Ladders S.A. (ESLA), headquartered in Barcelona, design and manufacture tailor-made ladders, work platforms, and scaffolding. Building an online configurator using DriveWorks has significantly improved the customer experience, and dramatically saves time, and the whole process is now controlled via DriveWorks.

Manufacturing companies are going through a time of transformation, with opportunities created by technology. Traditional operations are being replaced by more efficient processes, and workforces are learning and evolving too. Learning new skills and keeping up with technology will lead to benefits for all.

Heather recently had a coffee and a catch-up with Colorado SOLIDWORKS User Group Leader, Dan Riffell. Dan shared his previous work in mechanical engineering and how it played a role in leading him to become the Associate Professor of Practice at University of Colorado in Boulder.

Instead of focusing on how to use our site, we want our users focusing on the product that they are configuring. In this blog, Paul Gimbel looks at the importance of UX when designing your product configurator.

As a country, we now welcome a new King, King Charles III. His coronation will be on Saturday 6th May, with royal festivities taking place all weekend. This includes a public bank holiday in the UK on Monday 8th May. Our offices will be closed this Monday as we take the time to reflect on our late Queen Elizabeth II and the celebration of our new King.

IMA PG is a leading pioneer in packaging solutions in India. Using DriveWorks, they have reduced their design time from 4 days to just 1 day. Costly manufacturing errors have also been reduced significantly, and IMA PG is now at 80% drawing accuracy across its product line. Find out how IMA PG is using DriveWorks to optimize its processes.

We’ve added a new course to the DriveWorks Learning Portal, exclusively for DriveWorks Pro customers with active subscription, resellers and partners. This course was recorded as part of a Tech Talks live technical webinar broadcast. Find out what features and functionality were added in DriveWorks 18, DriveWorks 19 and DriveWorks 20 ahead of the upcoming release of DriveWorks 21.

There’s a common misconception that you have to automate everything or nothing at all. This often makes automation look like a big, scary task and prevents a lot of people from putting DriveWorks into production. In this blog, DriveWorks Sherpa, Paul Gimbel gives his advice on why you shouldn’t aim for 100% automation.

As our team grows at DriveWorks, our space onsite at DriveWorks HQ is growing too. We’re committed to creating a space that is enjoyed by our team and by our visitors. These new spaces provide more opportunities for us to learn, collaborate and invite visitors to join us for training.

HSI has been using DriveWorks since 2017, to automate the design process of their cranes. They wanted to create a customer-facing online tool, and saw DriveWorks as a a great solution. Used by customers and sales teams within the company, HSI are generating quotes faster and improving service with DriveWorks.

DriveWorks World brings together our users to learn, share knowledge and network. This year over 950 resellers, customers and partners joined us from around the world – thank you for joining us and joining in! Read some of the stats from this year’s event and watch some highlights and behind the scenes action.

The ability to configure, price, and quote easily are essential for manufacturing companies of all sizes and across all industries to cost-effectively offer configurable products. Discover how DriveWorks software enables you to build and manage your custom configure, price, and quote solution faster and more accurately.