Why Design Automation?
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Today customers and markets demand ever increasing variation and customization. Most manufacturers wish they could reap the benefits of mass production where initial investment in design and engineering can be exploited over time.
Design Automation with DriveWorks will help your business to be more competitive by providing you and your customers with a product configurator. Parameters for a new project can be inputted, the designed product and a cost to manufacture is then outputted automatically. This reduces the design process allowing for a quicker turnaround of sales documents and a more accurate quote.
Business issues which are resolved with Design Automation
If you are facing any of the following business issues then you should be using DriveWorks design automation:
- Are there bottle necks in your design process which if removed would lower your costs and increase your productivity?
- Is there a portion of your design process
that, if automated, would increase
productivity. For instance do you use seed parts to create design projects which are very similar? - Are you unable to meet request for quotation deadlines because of long quote times?
- Is any of the design work required to create a quote wasted or thrown away?
- Are there errors in communicating specs to manufacturing?
- Do your sales people need to be able to specify project/design parameters in order to generate quotes?
- Do you need to free up your designer's time to produce new designs rather than reworking existing projects for customer quotes?
- Do sales reps quote something that can’t be manufactured?
- Are you losing market share due to lack of product development or becuase your design costs are too high?
DriveWorks provides the solution enabling you to capture design knowledge, rules and experience. DriveWorks allows this knowledge to be shared in order to create new and variant designs, accurately, quickly and cost effectively.
