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Eurobond Doors Reduce Costly Design Errors with DriveWorks Pro
Eurobond Doors manufactures design-to-order industrial and commercial steel doors, and has been using DriveWorks since 2006. Eurobond Doors wants to ensure that its customer base has the best possible experience, which means shorter lead times and increased efficiency and consistency. They have achieved this with DriveWorks Pro.
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Add to Your DriveWorks Knowledge
Learn more over the festive period with our range of resources. Explore DriveWorks Pro Configurators on DriveWorks Live or deep dive further into DriveWorks technology with Sample Projects and Tech Tips, there’s something for everyone.
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New Learning Portal Course: Using Calculation Tables Effectively
We’ve added a new course to the DriveWorks Learning Portal, exclusively for DriveWorks Pro customers with active subscription, resellers and partners. This course was recorded as part of a Tech Talks live technical webinar broadcast. Make your DriveWorks Projects more powerful using Calculation Tables.
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Shotton Lifts Reduce Time Taken to Produce Sales Documents from Half a Day to 30 Minutes Using DriveWorks
Shotton Lifts are working faster and more efficiently with DriveWorks. They have reduced the amount of time taken to complete forms from half a day to only 30 minutes. The risk of human error has also been greatly reduced and they have eliminated the duplication of data.
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DriveWorks Software: Under the Hood
DriveWorks design automation and online 3D configurator software allows you to create tools to streamline your design and business processes. What makes all of this possible is our underlying technology. Learn more about the underlying technologies that make DriveWorks a world-leading Design Automation and Sales Configurator software solution.
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Oasis Trailers Use DriveWorksXpress to Save Time & Focus on Important Tasks
Oasis trailers are using DriveWorksXpress to speed up the design of their custom trailers. Before DriveWorksXpress specifying a trailer would be 20 minutes of repetitive work. Using DriveWorksXpress, free inside SOLIDWORKS, they have cut this time down to just 5 minutes at most.
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IN RE Host DriveWorks Workshop in Lithuania
On the 25th November, DriveWorks reseller, IN RE UAB hosted a DriveWorks-focused workshop at the Manufacturing Innovation Valley in Vilnius, Lithuania. The workshop focused on the digitisation of industry, manufacturing innovations and funding for EU investment in business digitalisation processes. The agenda was packed with DriveWorks content and featured a presentation from our team.
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DriveWorks Team Members Raise Over £1,000 for Movember
Members of the DriveWorks team have taken part in Movember for the past few years. This year though there were more people taking part than ever before. After 30 days of growing the mo’s were looking pretty good, and so was their fundraising – this year, they have raised over £1,000! Well done everyone for raising money for such a great cause and thank you to everyone who helped the team by donating and supporting!
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Winder Power Reduces Product Lead Time with DriveWorks Pro
Winder Power specialises in the design, build, deployment and management of power transformers and distribution transformers. Before using DriveWorks, Winder Power designed to order using SOLIDWORKS, design tables and equation-based parts. Winder Power began with DriveWorks Solo and then upgraded to DriveWorks Pro. They have found that the move to DriveWorks Pro has allowed them to merge their existing DriveWorks Solo projects together, which has streamlined the interface for their users.
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Smart Factory Expo 2022 Round Up
Smart Factory Expo is the UK’s biggest digital manufacturing show. As part of Digital Manufacturing Week, this annual event welcomes expertise, ideas and opportunity for digital manufacturing. For the seventh year running Smart Factory Expo delivered an exciting and engaging event of which we were pleased to be a part of! Here is a round-up of what happened at Smart Factory Expo 2022!
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A-LINE Building Systems Automate Their Quoting Process Using DriveWorks Pro
Maintaining professional appearance is very important to A-LINE and automating their quoting process using DriveWorks has helped to save time, money and reduce errors, without compromising on quality or professionalism. A-LINE have given their users greater flexibility when using the quoting system built using DriveWorks.
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Explore DriveWorks Configurators
Many industries are using the power of 3D for online sales and digital manufacturing. Implementing DriveWorks 3D configurators is a way to drive sales, increase revenue and cut your engineering design time. Explore our examples to see the capabilities DriveWorks configurators have to offer.
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DriveWorks Sponsors FIRST® Robotics for 4th Year Running
The FIRST® Robotics 2023 Season has launched. This year, the competition the theme is Charged Up. FIRST® is a not-for-profit public charity working to inspire young people’s interest and participation in science and technology. We are excited to be part of the FIRST® Robotics Competition, supporting teams with useful software, resources, learning opportunities and new skills.
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DriveWorks World: What to Expect and How to Join
DriveWorks World is the annual technical learning event for DriveWorks users and resellers. We’re adding even more opportunities to learn for DriveWorks World 2023 – you don’t want to miss it! We’re busy building the full agenda, but here’s what you can expect from virtual DriveWorks World 2023.
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Just Released: DriveWorks 20 SP2
Our approach is one of continuous improvement so we are now pleased to announce the release of our latest service pack DriveWorks 20 Service Pack 2, now available to download from the MyDriveWorks Community. Download DriveWorks 20 SP2 now to take advantage of the latest updates.