As manufacturers adopt digital technologies, they automate repetitive design tasks, streamline operations, and simplify the process of configuring and quoting custom products. These productivity improvements enable businesses to produce more accurately with fewer resources and increase output and speed to market. DriveWorks technology enables manufacturers to accurately configure custom products, calculate pricing, and automatically create documents and data for sales and manufacturing. It is designed to help manufacturers of all sizes and provides a suite of automation and configuration solutions tailored to meet a wide range of requirements. DriveWorks technology solutions are scalable and flexible, enabling businesses to evolve their automation efforts as their business needs change.
With DriveWorks technology solutions businesses can streamline how they configure, design, sell, and manufacture custom products.
What is DriveWorks?
DriveWorks provides a suite of comprehensive design automation, 3D product configurator, and CPQ solutions for manufacturers of custom products looking for software that can be tailored to their specific business needs.
By automating the generation of order-specific sales documents and integrating directly with SOLIDWORKS®, DriveWorks ensures that manufacturing data is accurate and production-ready. Using DriveWorks design automation technology, repetitive tasks and costly errors are eliminated, enabling streamlined operations that drive sales growth. Using DriveWorks 3D product configurator and CPQ solutions, design engineers, sales teams, distributors, and customers collaborate seamlessly enabling the design, customization, and ordering of products on any device, anytime.
Designed for SOLIDWORKS®
DriveWorks is exclusively designed for SOLIDWORKS, making it the ideal choice for any manufacturing company using SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD. Our solutions enhance the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS, providing seamless integration with other SOLIDWORKS products such as PDM, MBD, and CAM.
DriveWorks has been automating SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD since 2001. DriveWorksXpress, DriveWorks Solo, and DriveWorks Pro are all SOLIDWORKS Certified Gold Products.
DriveWorksXpress is included free inside every license of SOLIDWORKS.
SOLIDWORKS rules, logic, math, and intelligent calculations have always been at the core of our software. DriveWorks user interface is familiar to SOLIDWORKS users so you can get started quickly.
DriveWorks design automation solution for SOLIDWORKS
Design automation is the process of using rules-based logic to automate the creation, configuration, and customization of product designs. It enables manufacturers to generate complex product configurations quickly and accurately, based on predefined parameters and rules.
Using a DriveWorks design automation solution, manufacturers capture and reuse design, manufacturing, and cost estimation knowledge to deliver custom products faster and with greater accuracy, without using complex macros, design tables, or configurations.
1. Ease of use
Capture the parameters you currently change manually in your SOLIDWORKS models, assemblies, and drawings, using the DriveWorks Add-in for SOLIDWORKS.
2. Rules-based design
Enter your engineering knowledge into custom rules to automatically control and update the captured parameters using the intelligent DriveWorks Rules Builder.
3. Seamless SOLIDWORKS integration
Run your DriveWorks project over and over again. Enter order-specific design requirements and automatically generate new SOLIDWORKS models, assemblies, drawings, and BOMs, based on your rules.
DriveWorks 3D product configurator solution
A 3D product configurator is an interactive digital tool that allows sales teams and customers to customize and visualize products in three dimensions directly on a website. 3D product configurators equip sales teams with guided-selling tools, making it easier for them to sell complex custom products. Unlike static images, 3D configurators enable users to rotate, zoom, and change various product features in real-time.
Use a DriveWorks 3D product configurator solution to help customers, sales teams, and distributors configure complex custom products accurately.
1. Interactive 3D visualization
3D visualization makes it easier to communicate custom designs and explain different product options and features.
2. Intelligent guided selling
Interactive configurators equipped with guided selling tools and rules-based pricing functionality enable sales teams to guide customers through the configuration process easily.
3. Automatic document creation
Order-specific sales and manufacturing documents are created automatically, on customizable templates.
DriveWorks CPQ for manufacturing solution
DriveWorks CPQ for manufacturing solution includes all the features of standard CPQ tools with the added ability to automatically create the documents and data required for manufacturing.
CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) solutions automate and streamline sales processes by providing customized product configurations, accurate pricing, and efficient quoting, helping businesses across industries to reduce design and sales cycle times and improve conversions.
1. Custom workflows and permissions
Complete control of what happens, when it happens, and who can make it happen, from initial inquiry all the way through to manufacturing.
2. Seamless integration with other company systems
Easily share data between DriveWorks and other company systems including ERP, MRP, and CRM with native SQL, REST API, and ODBC integrations.
3. Effective sales management
Set up custom dashboards and monitor key business metrics. Track, revise, and manage orders, quotations, and sales documents, all in one place.
Blue Giant reduce quote creation time from 3 days to 5 minutes with DriveWorks technology
Blue Giant Equipment Corporation was founded in 1963. Their product line includes dock levelers, ground-level lifts, vehicle restraints, intelligent dock controls, and a diverse range of material handling products. Their product range includes over 8 million different product combinations.
Blue Giant uses DriveWorks technology to automatically generate quote documents and approval drawings for almost 240 teams and 1100 users worldwide.
They have created ConfigureBLUE™, their online DriveWorks configurator used by their authorized dealers and sales teams worldwide to generate customized drawings and models. ConfigureBlue™ integrates with their CRM system, Salesforce, enabling them to automatically create quotes and manage their sales opportunities.
Blue Giant’s configurator is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It reduces repetitive, manual tasks and simplifies the sales process for their complex configurable products, allowing them to create up to 150 opportunities each day.
ConfigureBLUE™ generates drawings and models to the customer’s exact specification. The quote and drawings are created within 5 minutes, a process which could take up to 3 days manually.
Reducing the time taken to send quotes to customers has enabled them to win sales opportunities they may have otherwise missed.
Additional integration with Freightview enables users to estimate the shipping time and cost once their product has been configured.
“DriveWorks has made a huge difference to our company. It has been a life saver compared to our processes before”
Raymond Rosana, System Automation Manager at Blue Giant
Learn more about DriveWorks technology solutions
Regardless of where businesses are on their digital transformation journey, DriveWorks offers scalable simple to complex solutions, enabling them to improve efficiency and drive innovation.
From simple automation tasks to complex configurations, DriveWorks technology enables manufacturers to efficiently configure, design, sell, and manufacture custom products.
Customer success
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Get started with DriveWorks technology
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DriveWorksXpress is the free design automation tool you already have inside SOLIDWORKS®. Activate your free license of DriveWorksXpress in the SOLIDWORKS® tools menu to get started today.
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