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DriveWorks World 2018 is just around the corner, register now to secure your place! Register before the 16th of February 2018 and you’ll save £200 per person with the early bird rate.

The Manchetser Digital Skills Festival is an annual, four-day event that includes a skills conference, the largest digital careers fair in the UK and opportunities for school children to learn digital skills in a practical setting. Mark and Bridie from the DriveWorks Team are attending the talent day on Wednesday 14th February – if you’ll be there, make sure you say hello!

RJ Watson Inc. were able to reduce errors associated with product assembly and reduce the amount of time needed for fulfilling project proposal requirements by 50% using SOLIDWORKS and DriveWorks.

The DriveWorks team recently completed project management training and to put our new techniques to the test, we decided to organise our own Christmas party this year!

Having achieved Bronze Investors in People accreditation in 2014, we recently applied for the 3-year re-assessment and we’re really proud to have now achieved Silver accreditation! We will continue to invest in our people and work together to execute beyond expectation.

Over the course of SOLIDWORKS World, 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!

In this blog Paul Gimbel, Business Process Sherpa at Razorleaf, discusses how they use intelligent rules in DriveWorks to help their customers extend their implementations.

Some of the DriveWorks team have been taking part in Movember this year, growing a moustache during the month of November to raise awareness of men’s health issues. Unfortunately, many of us on the team struggle to grow a moustache, but we’ve still given it a good go! It’s for a good cause and we are pleased to raise awareness.

Planning and managing your DriveWorks implementation well is key to its success. Free tools like Trello make managing tasks and tracking the progress of your DriveWorks implementation quick and easy. Trello offers loads of great features, like check lists and due dates that help you define project details and hit deadlines.

Metalura is Dutch manufacturer of high quality and innovative outdoor products. As a recognized leader in the Netherlands, they deliver customized garden rooms, folding balcony and terrace glazing and windshields quality directly to their customers. In this article, we look at how they are using SOLIDWORKS and DriveWorks together to increase quality while lowering costs and saving time.

For a number of years, we’ve worked closely with the University of Huddersfield to find the best students to join our team. We’ve hired students from many disciplines who have all worked hard and had a real impact on our team. They’ve joined us as interns, stayed working with DriveWorks throughout their studies and returned full time after graduating. We recognise the importance of investing in students and want to help build a strong future for students and the industry. Read on to find out more about our interns and graduates from the University of Huddersfield.

DriveWorks 15 SP2 was released on 21st November 2017 and it’s available to download from the DriveWorks Community. Our latest release has been timed so that this service pack supports the official released version of SOLIDWORKS 2018.

We have specialised in design automation and CPQ configurator software for SOLIDWORKS since we first began developing DriveWorks in 2001. Because we only focus on SOLIDWORKS, our software is the ultimate choice for SOLIDWORKS engineers.

The 2nd annual SOLIDWORKS Largest User Group Meeting Ever (SLUGME) took place on Wednesday 15th November 2017 and we were pleased to sponsor and attend the event again.

Digital selling and the ability to Configure, Price and Quote easily, has fast become a vital part of “doing business” for manufacturing companies of all sizes and in most sectors. The DriveWorks CPQ template makes it easy for manufacturing companies to quicky reap the benefits of guided selling and CPQ.