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The DriveWorks team can often be found with personalised tea and coffee mugs around our offices. But it’s not just members of the DriveWorks team who own DriveWorks mugs!

Innovation and customer proximity are important to Hauff-Technik because with 50,000 unique items per year, it’s important they deliver exactly what the customer wants. Hauff-Technik have recently turned to DriveWorks and reduced design time of custom products from 24 hours to 5 minutes.

Use DriveWorks 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 the same but different products. Get to know DriveWorks!

In this month’s DEVELOP 3D magazine, DriveWorks CEO Glen Smith, discusses how the latest technology might be deployed to make online events and virtual conferences more engaging. This is part of a series of articles by Glen that is featured every month in the DEVELOP3D magazine.

DriveWorks is used by manufacturing companies from a range of industries. It’s modular, scalable and incredibly versatile so our customers use DriveWorks in many different ways. Read a selection of quotes from some of the case studies we’ve gathered from our customers.

Products in the HVAC industry are often very specific and custom, and that’s where HVAC manufacturers can benefit from the power of a product configurator. The DriveWorks HVAC configurator example shows how this can be achieved with DriveWorks. In this blog, we’re stepping through the example to explain how the HVAC product configurator works.

Every Wednesday, Nick Sweeney, Pre Sales, Application Engineer at InFlow-Technology releases a new InPOD by InFlow podcast. Each podcast Nick is joined by special guests to discuss all the different products that InFlow offers and supports. In this week’s podcast, host Nick is joined by DriveWorks Senior Technical Specialist, Tom Wormald to talk all things DriveWorks!

DriveWorks is sold worldwide and supported locally by authorized and certified DriveWorks resellers, on your time zone. We’re really pleased to announce that we have 6 new resellers joining us to sell and support DriveWorks!

In this month’s DEVELOP 3D magazine, DriveWorks CEO Glen Smith, talks about the importance of having the right to repair, repurpose and recycle products. Glen discusses the importance of technology advancing and the fact that ‘new’ doesn’t always mean better. Sharing stories of his love for repairing and restoring, Glen looks at how things have changed and how we can still innovate new technology by building on what is already there.

This month marks one year since we received our double Queen’s Awards. We couldn’t have predicted the year that would unfold following receiving our Queen’s Awards but our commitments to innovation and international trade, recognised by our Queen’s Awards, have helped us to remain strong and efficient throughout this pandemic. Let’s take a look back at what’s happened in the past year.

After purchasing DriveWorks Solo, HSI Cranes created their first project and soon realized they wanted to create a customer-facing online tool, and therefore upgraded to DriveWorks Pro. End users are so happy and HSI are able to make the most of their new sales tool. The company already have plans to expand and improve their project further.

This month marks one year since we received our double Queen’s Awards. We couldn’t have predicted the year that would unfold following receiving our Queen’s Awards but our commitments to innovation and international trade, recognised by our Queen’s Awards, have helped us to remain strong and efficient throughout this pandemic. Let’s take a look back at what’s happened in the past year.

The global pandemic has led to fewer face to face meetings, making 3D visualization and online configuration essential commercial tools for manufacturers of custom or customizable products. Explore our example custom Bi-Fold Door configurator to see how you can use DriveWorks and the power of 3D for online sales and digital manufacturing.

DriveWorksXpress allows you to automate any part of your SOLIDWORKS design, giving you the flexibility to automate time-consuming and repetitive tasks, simplifying your design process, and enabling you to use your time more efficiently. Activate your free license of DriveWorksXpress, inside the SOLIDWORKS Tools Menu.

IMA PG is a leading pioneer in packaging solutions in India. Since installing DriveWorks, their design time has reduced from 4 days to just one day. Costly manufacturing errors have also reduced significantly, and IMA PG are now at 80% drawing accuracy across their product line.