Overcoming challenges in HVAC manufacturing
Successful HVAC manufacturing requires businesses to manage complex configurations, comply with strict regulatory requirements, and meet customer expectations for speed and accuracy.
DriveWorks design automation, 3D configurator, and CPQ solutions streamline design engineering workflows, ensure quality, and speed up design and sales cycles for custom HVAC products.
Simplifying complex configurations
HVAC products can be complex, with customers expecting bespoke configurations that use the latest technology and comply with environmental, quality, and safety standards.
DriveWorks excels in handling HVAC customization requirements, automating design and engineering processes, and streamlining workflows.
Customers and sales teams can easily customize HVAC products according to their specific requirements and get accurate quotes, 3D models, and drawings faster.
Keeping pace with technology
The HVAC industry is rapidly evolving with the integration of smart and connected technologies. Manufacturers need to ensure their product range is current and that sales teams have access to the latest product information.
Guided selling tools give sales teams instant access to updated and configurable product options. This ensures salespeople can confidently recommend up-to-date solutions.
Design automation frees up engineers to work on product development and incorporate new technology into HVAC products.
Accelerating sales cycles
For HVAC manufacturers, designing each new product often involves reworking the same designs to fit unique customer specifications. This can be slow and with the possibility of errors, especially when done manually.
DriveWorks design automation enables HVAC design engineers to automatically generate accurate custom designs based on specific inputs.
Removing repetitive tasks that typically slow down the sales cycle ensures manufacturers respond to customer requests faster, with accurate design configurations that meet their needs.
Embedding regulatory compliance
Navigating complex and variable environmental, building, and safety regulations is a constant challenge for HVAC manufacturers and their sales teams.
DriveWorks rules-based technology ensures HVAC designs automatically comply with the latest regulations. This eliminates the risk of non-compliance and ensures compliance across different regions.
Reducing engineering bottlenecks
Traditional design processes need significant manual input, often with multiple revisions and inter-departmental exchanges. This can lead to engineering bottlenecks and delays.
DriveWorks design automation technology removes inefficiencies from the design workflow by automatically generating order-specific SOLIDWORKS® parts, assemblies, and drawings.
Managing supply chains
Supply chain disruptions can affect the availability of raw materials and components for HVAC systems.
DriveWorks improves manufacturing agility by enabling quick reconfiguration of designs to accommodate alternative components or materials.
This flexibility enables HVAC manufacturers to mitigate production delays and adapt to supply chain challenges without disruption.
Faster turnaround for customers
Using DriveWorks, Wozair have reduced manual inputs and increased control to streamline their manufacturing process.
Wozair, based in the UK, specialize in the design, manufacture, and installation of HVAC products. Before using DriveWorks, they relied on an outdated Excel-based Integrated Design System to produce their .dxf and BOM files. Implementing DriveWorks has led to a reduction in the number of manual inputs required and allows them to get the design information through to manufacturing in a shorter space of time. Before DriveWorks, creating drawings for their products was a time consuming, manual process, this is now done in minutes using DriveWorks.
Wozair have achieved additional accreditations as a result of the improvements made to their processes, and they have been able to document and share the knowledge of their most experienced engineers.
Overall, Wozair have found their DriveWorks implementation gives them more control and consistency throughout their design process.
DriveWorks allows us to get from the design stage, to a finished product in the shortest possible time – giving our clients the best delivery program and distinguishing our performance from our competitors.
Alistair Brooks, Principal Engineer at Wozair Ltd
Configure, design, sell, and manufacture custom products faster
DriveWorks technology enables you to accurately configure custom products, calculate pricing, and automatically create documents and data for sales and manufacturing.
Learn more about DriveWorks technology and how your business could benefit with a DriveWorks demo. One of our technical experts will take you under the hood of our technology and explain the features of our design automation, product configurator, and CPQ for manufacturing solutions in more detail.