DriveWorks – Product Configurator

Design-to-Order

Configure your product

Generate all the engineering data & documentation needed

automatically

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DriveWorks – Product Configurator

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This interactive presentation shows how users can

design or engineer-to-order using DriveWorks(Users can be anybody from engineers to sales people

through to customers and non-technical personnel)

If some or all of your product design can be defined by rules, then new or variant products can be designed or engineered to order using DriveWorks

DriveWorks allows the user to configure the product and then generate all the required documentation automatically. In many instances reducing the time taken from weeks to hours or even minutes

This documentation includes the customer quotation, cutting lists, BOMs, 3D & 2D drawings, DXF’s etc.

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Open DriveWorks

DriveWorks is appropriate for any product or range of products where new or variant designs can be configured from a set of rules.

DriveWorks is currently being used in many diverse markets: from trailers to elevators, from furniture to food counters, from cubicles to conveyors.

In this example we are going to create a new conveyor.

Select Conveyor Line from the image on the right Select and then Specify New Product from the list

Project Information

The User Forms are created by the DriveWorks Administrator

The Administrator has already captured and assigned the rules affecting the product, and determined which ones the user can specify and ‘drive’

By working through the input forms, the User can design their own new or variant product.

DriveWorks will then create the 3D models, 2D drawings and other required documentation automatically

There is no danger of designing something that cannot be manufactured, as the rules have already been set

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Project Information

• Select a Customer or Create New Customer

Customer

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Create New Quote

Create New Customer

Quote

Project

Specified By

This example will create..

• Quotation

• Document Record Note

• Cutting List

• 2D Approval Drawing

• 3D models

• DXF files

• All the engineering information to enable the manufacture of every required component including

DriveWorks can be integrated with other company systems, such as CRM, ERP and MRP.

In this interactive example it is possible to select a customer from a drop down list.This information would usually be read directly from the CRM database.

• Choose a Quote number or Create New Quote • Select who is Specifying this product • Click Next

Create New Customer

Company Name

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

Address Line 3

Address Line 4

Cancel Apply

Sub Forms can be used to enter supplementary information or data that needs to appear in other applications.

This example creates New Customer Information that will populate a CRM database and become available on the main customer selection form.

• Click Apply• Enter the details of the New Customer in the boxes provided.

Create New Quote

Customer

Quote Number

Project

Cancel Apply

This is another example of a sub form where a Customer is selected from a drop down list and a new quote and project assigned to that customer

• Enter a Project definition • Click Apply• Enter a quote number

Design Specification

Conveyor Type

Drive Type

Material

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Heavy load Bearing

Guide Rails

Roller Overhang

Length

Height

Width

Qty

The information specified here is critical to the design of the product. Here we will drive a number of parameters.

Intelligence can be built into each control on the User Form.

Controls can be enabled or disabled dependant on choices made elsewhere

Controls can be populated dynamically to include options that can only be selected from previous selections.

Error Validation takes place instantlyEnter an incorrect value in the Length or Height

Controls and try hitting Next!

On Screen HelpMove the mouse over the Length and Height Controls – to hide the tooltip move the mouse to a blank area of the user form

The User Form can also include images to assist in the selection process

• Configure the product by selecting options from the form • Click Next

Quotation

A quotation, based on the information specified, is then returned directly to the User

If any changes are required the user can return to a previous form

The information in the Quotation can also be formulated in the Master Design Sheet that controls the product. This can be saved as any file type that is available in Excel (.doc, .pdf, .html, .xml, etc)

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Manufacturing Documentation

Further examples of documentation that can be automatically created include…….

Cutting Lists

Again the results can be reported to the User Form and formulated in the Master Design Sheet for saving out as a separate file.

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Purchasing Information

Further examples of documentation that can be automatically created include…….

Purchase Requisition Notes

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ERP/ MRP Integration

Further examples of documentation that can be automatically created include…….

Detailed Bills of Materials

These type of results are formulated in the Master Design Sheet and can be saved out as a file type that can be read into any Windows based ERP/ MRP system.

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Quality Documentation

Quality Documentation

DriveWorks is a great aid to Quality Management

Again the results can be reported to the User Form and formulated in the Master Design Sheet for saving out as a separate file.

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Generate 3D & 2D Output

Based on the variables specified, DriveWorks makes the necessary changes to all the associated parts and assemblies

DriveWorks automatically creates documentation and linking to any other windows based application is done instantly while the forms are being completed or any apply button is clicked.

DriveWorks is fully integrated with SolidWorks and generates all the 3D models and 2D drawings

… A great sales and marketing tool

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DriveWorks User

(Network)

DriveWorks Admin

or Server

DriveWorks.NET

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“What you see is what you get”

Summary of DriveWorks

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Benefits:• Capture design knowledge• Ensure consistency of information produced• Reduce costly mistakes• Save time & money by automating repetitive tasks• Win more business by responding to your customers needs

more quickly and efficiently• Sell what you can make• Implementing DriveWorks does not require

expensive programming and customisation

Use DriveWorks to:• Capture all your product design rules• Automate repetitive tasks• Liberate engineers to concentrate on new and special designs• Produce manufacturing and sales information automatically• Let customers and/or sales staff can design-to-order whilst

maintaining all your engineering control rules

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For further information on DriveWorks visit

www.driveworks.co.uk

DriveWorks – Product Configurator