A manufacturing company using SOLIDWORKS® made some basic assumptions.
The assumptions
- They have 4 engineers.
- They have SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD
- They have DriveWorksXpress.
- They could afford to free up one engineer for 1 ½ hours per week.
- For every 4 minutes that one engineer spent with DriveWorksXpress, they could save each engineer (including themselves) 1 minute per week by the next week.
- Any savings they made in time would be re-invested in using DriveWorksXpress.
- If they freed up one engineer for a week, they would be trained on DriveWorks Solo.
- They would put this plan into action.
The Result
After 5 weeks they were saving enough time in design to send one engineer for a week-long DriveWorksEngineer training course WITHOUT AFFECTING PRODUCTION
Here’s the math
| Time Spent On DriveWorksXpress | Time Saved per Engineer | Total Time Saved | |
| Week 1 | 1.5 hours | 0 Minutes | 0 hours |
| Week 2 | 3 hours | 22.5 Minutes | 1.5 hours |
| Week 3 | 6 hours | 1 hour 7.5 minutes | 4.5 hours |
| Week 4 | 12 hours | 2 hours 37.5 minutes | 10.5 hours |
| Week 5 | 24 hours | 5 hours 37.5 minutes | 22.5 hours |
| Week 6 | DriveWorksEngineer Training Course | 11 hours 37.5 minutes | 46.5 hours |