Solving manufacturing challenges with DriveWorks
Manufacturing custom products comes with a unique set of challenges. Because every order is different, it’s easy for workflows to slow down and for bottlenecks to appear. Errors can also happen when multiple teams handle bespoke designs, each with different requirements.
All of these factors can delay quotes and orders, increase costs, and reduce sales volumes. Manufacturers need to find smarter, faster, and more reliable ways of producing custom products.
How does DriveWorks solve manufacturing challenges?
DriveWorks technology enables manufacturers to:
- Accurately configure custom products
- Calculate real-time pricing
- Automatically create documents and data for sales and manufacturing
DriveWorks is designed to help manufacturers of all sizes and provides a suite of automation and configuration solutions tailored to meet a wide range of requirements. DriveWorks technology solutions are scalable and flexible, enabling businesses to evolve their automation efforts as their business needs change.
With DriveWorks design automation, 3D product configurator, and CPQ solutions, manufacturers:
- Remove bottlenecks in design and production workflows.
- Reduce costly errors through automation and accurate configuration.
- Accelerate sales cycles with faster quoting and order processing.
- Improve business-wide efficiency and productivity.
What is DriveWorks?
DriveWorks provides a suite of comprehensive design automation, 3D product configurator, and CPQ solutions for manufacturers of custom products looking for software that can be tailored to their specific needs. DriveWorks technology is flexible and scalable, enabling manufacturers to build their own solution that grows with their business.
Using DriveWorks design automation technology, repetitive tasks and costly errors are eliminated, enabling streamlined operations that drive sales growth. Using DriveWorks 3D product configurator and CPQ solutions, engineers, sales teams, distributors, and customers collaborate seamlessly, enabling the design, customization, and ordering of products on any device.
Designed for SOLIDWORKS®
DriveWorks is exclusively designed for SOLIDWORKS, making it the ideal choice for any manufacturing company using SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD. DriveWorks has been automating SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD since 2001, and DriveWorksXpress, DriveWorks Solo, and DriveWorks Pro are all SOLIDWORKS Certified Gold Products. DriveWorksXpress is included free with every SOLIDWORKS license.
DriveWorks design automation
DriveWorks design automation solution enables manufacturers to generate complex product configurations quickly and accurately, based on predefined parameters and rules.
Using DriveWorks design automation, manufacturers capture and reuse design, manufacturing, and cost estimation knowledge to deliver custom products faster and with greater accuracy.
DriveWorks 3D product configurator
DriveWorks 3D product configurator solution enables sales teams and customers to customize and visualize products in three dimensions directly on a website. It equips sales teams with guided-selling tools, making it easier for them to sell complex custom products.
Use a DriveWorks 3D product configurator to help customers, sales teams, and distributors configure complex custom products accurately.
DriveWorks CPQ for manufacturing
DriveWorks CPQ for manufacturing solution includes all the features of standard CPQ tools with the added ability to automatically create the documents and data required for manufacturing.
Manufacturers use Driveworks CPQ to automate and streamline sales processes by providing customized product configurations, accurate pricing, and efficient quoting.
How DriveWorks solves manufacturing challenges
More designs in less time
DriveWorks enables engineers to quickly and easily generate multiple product variations using pre-defined engineering rules and logic. Similarly, sales teams, customers and distributors can easily configure customer-specific solutions without engineering involvement for every sales request. As a result, design cycle times are reduced, and overall throughput is increased.
Improved accuracy
DriveWorks ensures every configuration follows pre-defined engineering rules, reducing the risk of human error. Configuration selections are validated in real- time, automatically applying correct pricing and presenting appropriate add-on options. This ensures that designs are consistent, compliant, and manufacturable.
Simplified complex configuration
DriveWorks overcomes the challenge of complex configuration by embedding logic and automating workflows and approvals. This removes complexity from engineering and sales processes and enables users to select from valid combinations. Using DrieWorks, even highly customized products can be easily and accurately configured.
Enhanced customer experience
DriveWorks enables faster quote responses, with clear, accurate configurations, tailored to individual customer needs. A combination of shorter lead times, fewer revisions, and greater confidence that what they order can be delivered exactly as specified results in a smoother customer buying experience.
More sales generated
DriveWorks enables manufacturers to shorten quote-to-order cycles and reduce errors. Sales teams and distributors can respond faster with accurate solutions, removing friction from the sales process. Manufacturers are more likely to win deals and increase sales conversion rates without increasing headcount.
How manufacturers use DriveWorks
DriveWorks technology is used by manufacturers across a wide range of industries.
Manufacturing companies around the world use DriveWorks software to save time, boost efficiency, and increase profit.
“Our design process using DriveWorks is 10 times faster than our previous manual process.”
WEATHER GUARD transformed their sales process with a 3D product configurator, automatic quoting, and integration with Salesforce CRM.
Ödül Madeni Eşya reduced configuration time by 40% and cut design time by 70% with DriveWorks.
Manufacturers of custom products from a wide range of industries use DriveWorks, including manufacturers of:
- Architectural components
- Furniture and fixtures
- Materials handling
- Machinery
- Industrial components
- Transportation
- HVAC
- Valves, pumps, and cylinders
- Enclosures
Learn more about what other manufacturers have achieved with DriveWorks.
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.