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DriveWorks 19.2 is now available to download from the DriveWorks Community. This latest release delivers new features and enhancements and supports SOLIDWORKS 2022. Download DriveWorks 19.2 now to take advantage of the latest updates.

The High Sheriff’s Awards for Enterprise are the county’s most prestigious awards for business performance, recognising outstanding achievements by enterprises in Cheshire, Halton and Warrington. This year we are proud to be sponsoring the High Sheriffs Award for Digital Innovation. Digital innovation is something we’re extremely passionate about. We’re keen to see what other businesses across Cheshire and Warrington are achieving through digital innovation.

We love being a part of the SOLIDWORKS Community. With the support of our resellers, customers and partners, we have attended SWUG meetings, sponsored meetings and helped group leaders to find presenters with interesting presentations since 2015. Although these past 18 months have been very different, we have still had the chance to connect with the SWUG Community through many online meetings and during virtual 3DEXPERIENCE World 2021.

3DEXPERIENCE World 2022 will be held as a hybrid event on February 6-9, 2022, with the in-person event being held at the World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. We are excited to be attending 3DEXPERIENCE World 2022. We’re a silver sponsor and will be exhibiting, presenting, learning and networking.

Smart Factory Expo is industry’s biggest digital manufacturing show. As part of Digital Manufacturing Week, this annual event welcomes expertise, ideas and opportunity for digital manufacturing. For the sixth year running Smart Factory Expo delivered an exciting and engaging event of which we were pleased to be a part of! Here a round-up of what happened at Smart Factory Expo 2021!

This Week We’re Exhibiting and Presenting at Smart Factory Expo 2021. DriveWorks CEO, Glen Smith Presenting on CPQ for Manufacturing – Everything you Need to Sell and Manufacture Digitally. In this presentation, DriveWorks CEO, Glen Smith will share how companies around the world are using automation to do more with less. Use digital technologies to successfully sell your products at home and around the world. Work smarter – be inspired for yourself, and for your company.

Recently, we had a chance to catch up with Sean O’Neill, Dassault Systems as the Senior Strategy and Community Manager. In this second part, we will be talking to Sean about how the pandemic has impacted the SOLIDWORKS Community and reminiscing on previous world events.

We’re excited to be involved at this year’s Smart Factory Expo 2021 event in Liverpool on the 10th and 11th November 2021! Smart Factory Expo is where manufacturers explore digital transformation technology and hardware that will give you a competitive advantage. Smart Factory Expo brings together expertise, ideas and opportunity – the manufacturing industry’s showcase for digital manufacturing.

Last month, we launched a new series of DriveWorks technical discussion sessions. We’ve had lots of great conversations so far and we’re looking forward to continuing to host these sessions every Thursday at 4pm (BST). Sign up for upcoming sessions and tell us what you would like to chat about.

Planning for 3DEXPERIENCE World 2022 is underway. Next year, 3DEXPERIENCE World 2022 will be held as a hybrid event on February 6-9, 2022, with the in-person event being held at the World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. We caught up with Simge Walsh, Senior Strategy and Program Manager at Dassault Systèmes for a sneak preview of what we can look forward to at this event!

Thank you to everyone who has joined us for DriveWorks Drivers and shared their story of using DriveWorks over the past year. It’s been great to network and learn from all members of our community. On December 9th, we will be holding our one-year anniversary and the final DriveWorks Drivers meeting of the year.

We’ve always valued the importance of investing in new talent and supporting the future of digital. Every year we take on new members across many of our teams and this year was no different. With restrictions lifting in England, we felt now was the perfect time to organise a ‘Get Together’ morning of team building and fun activities for our latest recruits.

Recently, we had a chance to catch up with Sean O’Neill.  Sean joined Dassault Systems as the Senior Strategy and Community Manager. It was a pleasure speaking with Sean, learning about his role at SOLIDWORKS and hearing about his time creating and working on the SOLIDWORKS Champions Program and the SOLIDWORKS Influencer Program. Look out for Part Two where we will be continuing our conversation with Sean about how the pandemic has impacted the SOLIDWORKS Community and 3DEXPERIENCE World.

Warrington has been our home for more than 15 years. Since we moved here, Warrington has continued to thrive and grow. With over half of the DriveWorks team living in and around Warrington, we think it’s a great place to live, work and socialise but it’s not just us who think that, more and more research suggests that Warrington is the place to be.

Last week we launched the first in a new series of DriveWorks technical discussion sessions. These Let’s Chat About sessions will help DriveWorks users to learn more about DriveWorks, improve technical knowledge and get the most from the software. For our first session, we decided to kick things off by chatting about What’s New in our latest release – DriveWorks 19. Here’s a round-up of our first technical discussion session.