Get to Know DriveWorks – Design Automation & CPQ for Manufacturing

Written by Jessica Taylor on October 13th 2023.

Use DriveWorks to build your own design automation and CPQ solution.
DriveWorks is ideal for manufacturers who design and sell configurable products.

Use DriveWorks software to build a design automation and custom online sales configurator solution to suit your business needs.

DriveWorks is ideal for manufacturers who design and sell ‘same but different’ products.

Automate the creation of sales quotes, documents, and manufacturing data, including SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies, and drawings.

Through intelligent rules and logic, DriveWorks eliminates errors and enables guided selling.

Reduce repetitive tasks, errors, and rework, increase sales, and deliver custom products in record time.

All DriveWorks products are scalable. Any design automation project you create using DriveWorksXpress can be seamlessly migrated to DriveWorks Solo or DriveWorks Pro. Add extra capabilities to your projects as and when you need them.

Get to Know DriveWorks

Explore each level of DriveWorks software.

DriveWorksXpress

Use DriveWorksXpress free inside SOLIDWORKS.

DriveWorksXpress is the easy-to-use design automation tool included inside every license of desktop SOLIDWORKS. Create multiple variations of your SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies, and drawings quickly and accurately.

If you offer many different product options or every customer order is bespoke, DriveWorksXpress helps you capture your design rules, recreate variations of existing designs, reduce repetitive tasks, save time, and improve product quality.

One-time setup – set up once and run again and again.
No need for complex macros, design tables, or configurations.
Save time & innovate more – automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasks and free up time to focus on product innovation and development.
Eliminate errors – DriveWorksXpress uses rules to eliminate errors and expensive, time-consuming design changes.

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Activate your free licence of DriveWorksXpress

DriveWorks Solo

Use DriveWorks Solo to quickly and easily create and configure custom products inside SOLIDWORKS.

DriveWorks Solo is easy to set up, maintain and use, helping your company deliver custom products faster and with greater accuracy, without using complex macros, design tables, or code.

Try DriveWorks Solo free for 30 days

Automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasks and free up engineers to focus on product innovation and development.

Reduce the cost of custom designs, respond quickly to sales inquiries, reduce repetitive tasks, and enhance product quality.

From one simple input form, DriveWorks Solo quickly generates 3D models, 2D drawings, bills of materials, sales quotes, cover letters, and more, automatically.

With simple rules and decision logic, it’s easy to capture and reuse all of your design, manufacturing, and cost estimation knowledge. Generate new variations of your designs with proposal documents, over and over again.

Create new product designs and sales quotes quickly using DriveWorks Solo.

Eliminate errors- DriveWorks rules-based SOLIDWORKS automation eliminates errors and expensive, time-consuming design changes.
Save time & innovate more – automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasks and free up engineers to focus on product innovation and development.
Easy to setup, maintain & use – deliver custom products faster and with greater accuracy, without using complex macros, design tables, or code.

DriveWorks Pro

Use DriveWorks Pro to build your own SOLIDWORKS automation and online 3D product configurator solution.

DriveWorks Pro is the ideal design automation and online CPQ configurator solution to help you meet the increasing demand for custom, bespoke, and personalized products.

By enabling your customers to configure products, get instant quotes, and place orders online, and by streamlining many of your time-consuming sales, engineering, and manufacturing processes, DriveWorks Pro gives you a competitive edge.

DriveWorks Pro is structured into individual software modules, each designed to address specific business needs.

Additional modules can be added as and when you need them to extend the benefits of design automation to your engineers, sales teams, distributors, dealers, and customers.

Connect sales and manufacturing to deliver custom products faster.
Ensure customers and sales teams configure the ideal solution every time with intelligent rules-based guided selling.
Enable customers and sales teams to configure custom products on any device.
Integrate seamlessly with other company systems, helping you work more efficiently and effectively.
Rules-based validation ensures you only offer products that can be manufactured, eliminating errors and boosting quality.
SOLIDWORKS automation eliminates errors and expensive, time-consuming design changes.
It’s easy to set up, maintain & use – create a custom solution that suits your needs.
DriveWorks is flexible and scalable – add to your solution as and when you need to.

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A screenshot of the DriveWorks Configurators page.

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How are Manufacturers Using DriveWorks Software?

A graphic explaining the benefits of DriveWorks for Knapheide. Text reads: "We do a lot of creating base models, and configuring that across the product line, and utilizing DriveWorks has allowed us to create that base model and handle that proliferation much more consistently, efficiently, and a lot faster as well''. The production process is much more efficient by creating a communication path and allowing users to open CAD files from others even if they’re on a different shift.DriveWorks has opened a communication bridge between designers and those on the shop floor. Knapheide’s engineers can now provide detailed 3D models directly to the shop floor. DriveWorks has enabled Knapheide to automate mundane tasks so that designers can focus on the fun part – the design cycle.

Based in Illinois, USA, Knapheide is a truck body manufacturer with a family-run history that spans over 175 years. They are committed to supplying a diverse product offering and encouraging customization.

Since implementing DriveWorks, Knapheide has achieved a number of goals:

DriveWorks has enabled Knapheide to automate mundane tasks so that designers can focus on the fun part – the design cycle.
DriveWorks has opened a communication bridge between designers and those on the shop floor.
Knapheide’s engineers can now provide detailed 3D models directly to the shop floor.
Keeping up with demand that they struggled to meet before.

Find out more about how Knapheide is automating mundane tasks & keeping up with demand with DriveWorks here.