Weiland Doors: Ensuring Design Consistency and Reducing Errors with DriveWorks

Configure, design, sell, and manufacture custom architectural components faster

DriveWorks is used by architectural components manufacturers in countries all over the world. DriveWorks design automation, 3D product configurator, and CPQ solutions enable manufacturers to automate complex engineering design tasks, maintain quality standards, and deliver customized products quickly.

Ensuring design consistency and reducing errors with DriveWorks

The challenge

Weiland Doors, based in Nebraska, USA, specializes in high-performance doors and windows designed for specialist environments, including food processing, cold storage, and pharmaceutical applications. Their highly customizable solutions must meet stringent industry requirements. Increasing demand for custom orders created a bottleneck and they needed a way to streamline the design process, while maintaining accuracy and ensuring compliance.

The solution

Weiland Doors used DriveWorks technology to build a configurator to overcome their design challenges. SOLIDWORKS® models, shop drawings, and BOMs for doors, windows, and frames are now generated automatically in minutes.

Engineers can access the configurator on any device, via a browser using individual logins. They enter their required specification into the configurator and add custom and standard items to a shopping cart. DriveWorks rules ensure only valid configuration options can be selected.

Weiland Doors’ next step is to expand their DriveWorks implementation to automatically generate sales quotes.

Added benefits

Weiland Doors use DriveWorks to automate their complex design processes, enabling efficient business scaling. DriveWorks ensures design consistency and reduces errors. Lead times for customers have been reduced as accurate designs are generated quickly. Automating the generation of shop drawings enables the production team to maintain high quality standards. Weiland Doors’ engineers use the time saved by DriveWorks to focus on innovation rather than manual drafting.

How DriveWorks makes a difference for other architectural & building components manufacturers

Manufacturing for the architectural and building components industry means dealing with complex, custom designs every day. Additionally, manufacturers face the challenges of staying competitive, following strict regulations, and ensuring design quality and consistency.

DriveWorks technology enables manufacturers to accurately configure custom architectural & building components, calculate pricing, and automatically create documents and data for sales and manufacturing.