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Get the latest news, tips, events and software updates from the DriveWorks team
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DriveWorks Challenge 7
DriveWorks Challenge 7 is live today! For this challenge, we’ve created a generic toy brick factory that allows you to create structures out of toy bricks. We want you to use a fun platform to focus on two powers of the 3D preview document. We’ve set up three separate tasks of varying difficulties, so just pick the one that works best for you, or try all three!
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Why DriveWorks Pro?
DriveWorks Pro is the ideal design automation and online sales configurator solution to help you meet the increasing demand for customized products. With DriveWorks Pro you can build your own SOLIDWORKS® automation and CPQ configurator solution that can grow with your business.
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Coming Up In September
Join the DriveWorks technical experts this month for one of our free technical webinars. Whether you want to find out more about our technology solutions or you’ve just got started with DriveWorks technology and want to learn more, there’s a webinar for you. Sign up today to learn more about DriveWorks.
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DriveWorks Technology: Spotlight On Forms
We believe that understanding the technology behind DriveWorks technology is just as important as using it. DriveWorks Technology Examples take a deep dive into a particular aspect of our technology to help you understand what you can achieve with DriveWorks. They highlight things you may not notice in a normal demo and give you a look under the hood.
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Industry Spotlight: Furniture Manufacturers
The furniture manufacturing industry faces several challenges, including supply chain disruptions, regulatory pressure, and competitive market conditions. DriveWorks technology provides a powerful solution to these challenges by enabling custom configurations, ensuring compliance using rules-based functionality, and using design automation to free up time for innovation.
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DriveWorks Roadshow Canada
Join the DriveWorks team in four locations across Canada this September for the CPQ DriveWorks Automation and Innovation Summit. Together with our Value-Added Reseller, Javelin Technologies, we are hitting the road to bring you exclusive DriveWorks events across Canada!.
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How Can I Implement Design Automation In My Business?
Implementing design automation into your business shouldn’t be daunting. Starting small and quickly seeing the benefits is an effective way of introducing design automation technology into your processes. Our tips for design automation implementation show how easy it can be to start your design automation journey.
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The Power of Guided Selling
For manufacturers of custom products, selling complex configurations is challenging. Guided selling empowers salespeople and customers to confidently configure complex products, even when they don’t have extensive product knowledge. With guided selling tools, B2B buyers can easily configure custom products online and sales teams can focus on selling and customer service.
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How Design Automation Is Shaping The Future Of Manufacturing
The manufacturing industry faces several challenges including the demand for customization, a shortage of skilled labor, and an increasingly competitive operating environment. By automating time-sensitive and often repetitive upfront activities, manufacturers are reaping the benefits with more time to innovate and add value to their products, increasing throughput, improving quality, and winning more business.
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Integrate DriveWorks CPQ with Other Business Systems to Streamline Processes
DriveWorks CPQ can be seamlessly integrated with other business systems, applications, and platforms. CPQ integrations enhance the functionality of your CPQ solution enabling connections with other business-critical systems such as CRM, ERP, and E-commerce platforms and other business applications.
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National Manufacturing Day 2024: Opening Our Doors For Future Makers
National Manufacturing Day is a chance for UK manufacturers and associated businesses to give their local schools and colleges behind-the-scenes access to a sector of global importance that plays a key role in the economic life of local communities across the UK. DriveWorks is proud to be taking part in National Manufacturing Day next month to showcase how technology is transforming the manufacturing industry.
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Just Released: DriveWorks 22 SP1
Download the latest DriveWorks release today. DriveWorks Resellers and Customers with an Active Subscription Support Contract can now download DriveWorks 22 SP1 from the MyDriveWorks Community. We always recommend being on the latest version to take advantage of any security enhancements, bug fixes, and new features.
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5 Practical Examples of Design Automation
Manufacturing businesses across all industries use design automation tools to increase efficiency, reduce errors, streamline workflows, and free up time for product innovation. We take a look at some practical examples to demonstrate how design automation tools deliver business benefits for manufacturers worldwide.
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Tech Talks – Next Level: Using Generation Tasks to Improve Your Design Automation
Join us on 15th August for the next webinar in our Tech Talks-Next Level series. This month the DriveWorks technical experts will give an overview of Generation Tasks and how they give you more control over model generation. They will also share their insight on when and where Generation Tasks can be used.
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DriveWorks Drivers September 2024 Meeting Agenda
Join us on 5th September for the next DriveWorks Drivers meeting. You’ll have the opportunity to connect with other DriveWorks users, share technical tips, and gain practical insights to enhance your DriveWorks implementation. We will be hosting the meeting at 1.30pm NZST and 3pm BST so please join us at whichever time works best for you!