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Learn about the DriveWorks Configure Price Quote (CPQ) Solution
Learn how the DriveWorks Automation Add-in for SOLIDWORKS speeds the creation of Quotes, Drawings, and Models, allowing you to reduce time to market and optimize profit margins. Most profit margins are narrow and continue to become even narrower. Even in segments with relatively healthy margins, competition and global outsourcing necessitate cost reduction. Historically, the significant…
Are your designs “the same but different”? Have you ever wondered if you could automate repetitive designs and tasks? Let us show you how to reduce costs and increase profitability while automating your customized designs. Join us on Thursday, December 9th, at 10 AM ET for our webinar as TriMech Application Engineer, Dave Ramsey, teaches you how…
Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) and Product Configurator systems offer many advantages for companies that design configurable products. Particularly when the interface includes 3D graphics and can be accessed online by sales reps, dealers or end customers. The benefits of this technology are even greater for manufacturers of industrial products because of the many business tasks that can…
Over the course of SOLIDWORKS World 2018, you’ll join more than 5,000 of your peers and select from more than 200 breakout sessions on a range of topics. Make sure you learn about Design Automation and CPQ. Even if you’re already automating, there’s always something new to see and learn! Here’s a few of the design automation and configurator presentations that…
Why use a Configurator? The ability to configure, price and quote easily has become essential for manufacturing companies of all sizes, in all industries. We’ve all seen, and probably used, some kind of sales configurator. They’re now widely used by many recognized brands as a way of cost-effectively offering configurable products. Configurable products are becoming…
Learn About CPQ with DriveWorks at Microsoft Manufacturing Conference 2017 Javelin’s John Mignardi will speak at the Microsoft 2017 Manufacturing Conference on December 5th in Mississauga, Ontario. This co-sponsored manufacturing event organized by Sabre Limited on behalf of Microsoft is held about every six months and is intended to help manufacturing companies stay up-to-date on…
Spreadsheets are out! Configure quotes in minutes, not days
Ah, the 1980s. A time for Rubik’s cubes, Pac-Man…and spreadsheets. Personal computers started showing up on desktops and “apps” like Excel were used for creating accounting statements and bills of materials (along with everyday tasks like tracking your football pool). Excel was and still is a remarkable tool for accumulating data and reporting results. Unfortunately,…
The process for reinstalling SOLIDWORKS properly can be quite involved, requiring the removal of prerequisite components, registry keys, folder locations, etc. The procedure for reinstalling DriveWorks is comparatively simple, but requires more planning than does SOLIDWORKS. Let’s take a closer look at what is involved. Be sure to read through the whole procedure before beginning…
In this DriveWorks Tech Tips blog post we continue from part one to look at ways to use DriveWorks Hierarchical Properties to build our forms more quickly and make them smarter. In the video below we show the creation of a more responsive table out of labels, which once setup, can be quickly expanded to…
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