How DriveWorks Helps You to Reduce Lead Time in Manufacturing

Manufacturers know that in order to beat competition, they must be quick to bring the product to market. However, for manufacturers who develop products which look the same but are customized for specific customer requirements, multiple design iterations and troubleshooting can eat into a project’s time and expense.

DriveWorks offers design automation to help manufacturers work smartly by automating repetitive design tasks.

The logical-rules for design automation in DriveWorks ensure:

• Elimination of errors and expensive, time-consuming design changes.
• Empowered sales team through an interactive design platform with 3D visualization.
• Automation of repetitive modeling as per specifications and removal of approval and errors.
• Removal of unnecessary delays and reworks due to ECOs from shop floor.

These factors collectively eliminate time consuming processes at any stage during designing and drafting.

Offering customized products is a great way to win more customers and generate more sales. However, to manage greater volumes of new business and to simplify the buying process also requires automated sales configurator.

DriveWorks reduces errors and saves time with automated quotations and cover letters. It allows dealing with customer queries faster, resulting in more orders, reduced operational overheads, and better customer service by integrating with ERP systems.

The integration of DriveWorks with SolidWorks and other ERP, CRM, SCM, etc. offers:

• Quick sales proposals to help win more business and drive sales revenues.
• Showcase entire product range, catalogue and instant quotes, delivery dates etc. at the time of order placement.
• Reduced costs due to mistakes and incomplete proposals.
• Eliminated need for web programming skills or consultants to build and maintain an online sales configurator.

These aspects of DriveWorks essentially guide the customer during the sales process offering enhanced experience. Further, when connected, the integration can give insights for the opportunities to cross-sell and up-sell products.

Efficient management of inventory is a crucial step in managing a smooth production flow. Unavailability of certain items can put the whole production on hold. Failure to replenish raw materials increases the lead time. Being able to accurately forecast growth or demand for your products is only half job done.

Inability of suppliers to deliver materials on time can become a manufacturing challenge. At the same time, holding too much inventory is expensive and may lead to wastage.

DriveWorks design automation platform offers integration with ERP automation to ensure all resources are put to optimum use. It helps to automate the stock-taking process, optimize supply chain management, and balance working capital by acting as a bridge between ERP, engineering, and manufacturing.

By connecting a design automation platform with ERP you get to:

• Reduce order processing time and optimizes picking and orders shipping, notifying manufacturers on inventory refills.
• Automate warehouse processes, optimizes material flow, and helps to maintain accurate stock levels.
• Boost sales by keeping a track of sales using features like raw material management, bar-cording, inventory control, and more.
• Clear the beltway faster for improved order processing.

Manual collection and formalization of plant and process data is the most time consuming and prone to errors. Most of the required data can be found in engineering data and data generated by other integrated systems like ERP, MES, SCM and more.

3D product configurator made with DriveWorks gives you the toolset to automatically and accurately create manufacturing drawings and other supporting documentation. It offers automation of manufacturing data, emails, sales quotes and more based on the existing and captured data library.

Advantages of design automation for manufacturers:

• Helps to automatically create custom manufacturing drawings, BOMs, and more without errors using annotation text, annotation positions, layers, break lines, etc.
• Helps to put to use static tabular engineering data within the rules and forms by centralizing and maintaining data and also ensuring that the data is error-free and updated.
• Improves productivity of multiple teams.