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Another year over and what a year it’s been! In the new year, we are looking forward to continuing our journey of innovation and automation. We’ll be welcoming even more members to the DriveWorks team, attending 3DEXPEREINCE WORLD 2023 and sharing our exciting plans for DriveWorks World 2023. Happy Holidays from us.

The DriveWorks Learning Portal offers a whole host of on-demand training courses and resources. It’s free for all DriveWorks resellers, partners and customers with active subscription. Set up your learning portal account and get access to a library of technical training content, created by DriveWorks experts.

Call for papers is now open for DriveWorks World 2023. We invite our customers, partners and resellers to submit a call for papers to share your stories and DriveWorks projects, share tips and tricks and learn from each other. No matter how you use DriveWorks or what stage you are at, we want to hear from you.

On Thursday, 8th December we were excited to host the two-year anniversary of DriveWorks Drivers. DriveWorks Drivers connects DriveWorks Users from around the world, featuring guest speakers sharing experiences and encouraging questions and dialogue about the technology. Here’s what happened during the December meeting.

Companies that embrace digital transformation are more agile and are able to use their time more efficiently. There are challenges in all industries and consumer expectations are changing. Now is the time to leverage digital, automate and be more efficient. However, with businesses stretched more than ever, how can companies find the time to go digital?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!