Discover DriveWorks

Automation & CPQ for Manufacturing

What is DriveWorks?

DriveWorks is a Design Automation and Sales Configuration tool used by manufacturing companies large and small.

Are your designs the “same but different”? Product customization is more prevalent than ever, and DriveWorks is here to make the entire process easier than ever. Built from the ground up for manufacturing companies, DriveWorks allows you to digitize product specification sheets, and automate pricing, quoting, CAD design, and more!

If you’re looking to build an internal or external product configurator, automate sales specification and pricing for your sales teams, distributors, and even customers; DriveWorks software is the ultimate choice!

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Discover the Key Features of DriveWorks

Automate SOLIDWORKS

Automatically create order-specific SOLIDWORKS® parts, assemblies, and drawings. 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.

3D Product Configurator

Use guided selling and 3D visualizations to help users configure complex custom products accurately. Build an online configurator with DriveWorks to stay ahead of the competition, reduce costs, and win more business.

Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)

Configure, price, and quote complex custom products on any device, anywhere.

Guided selling ensures sales teams and distributors always meet customer requirements faster with valid configurations that can be manufactured. Remove the need to consult with engineering before quoting product configurations and accelerate sales.

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Example DriveWorks Online Product Configurator

Browse products embedded in a multi-page website, configure custom and standard products, add them to your basket and request a quote.

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Why Choose TriMech?

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TriMech Capabilities

TriMech is an award winning DriveWorks reseller, able to provide technical services and training. Learn how we have helped clients implement DriveWorks software »

Example DriveWorks Online Product Configurator

Browse products embedded in a multi-page website, configure custom and standard products, add them to your basket and request a quote.

Seamless integration with company systems

Learn how to easily share data between DriveWorks and other company systems including ERP, MRP and CRM with native SQL, REST API and ODBC integrations.

Data sharing between systems removes the need for manual data re-entry and the chance of mistakes. Always working with accurate data means better experiences for your team, your distributors and your customers.

"Evolve Design Solutions appreciates the excellent customer service, product knowledge and technical support provided by TriMech, our SOLIDWORKS Value Added Reseller (VAR).”

Aldo Balatti
Principal, Evolve Design Solutions

“Our engineering processes are well defined and well documented. I can tell new customers with confidence that we’re delivering on milestones because we’re tracking our performance on speed and quality every day.”

Ray Minato
Owner, Inertia Engineering + Design

DriveWorks Features

Automation for everyone

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DriveWorks Input Form

Use rules to automate SOLIDWORKS Part, Assembly and Drawing creation

DriveWorks is an easy-to-use design automation solution that allows anyone to quickly and easily create and configure custom products inside SOLIDWORKS.

  • Capture and re-use your design knowledge
  • Incorporate design rules to reduce errors and rework, and improve product quality
  • Automate repetitive tasks to reduce design time
  • Free up design engineers to focus on improving product quality and designing new products
  • Create sales proposals quickly, win more business, and increase profit margins

Create Online Product Configurators

Enable your customers to configure their product selection, get instant quotes, and even place their orders straight from your website. Enable sales teams, distributors, and customers to configure custom products on any device, anywhere from a secure portal. Connect sales and manufacturing to reduce costs, errors, and lead time.

  • Meet the increasing demand for custom products to gain a competitive edge.
  • Generate quotes in record time.
  • Reduce the cost of custom designs.
  • As an online tool you will allow anyone to access the product configurator
  • Present your configurable products in a web browser as 3D interactive models rather than static 2D images.

 

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DriveWorks inside SOLIDWORKS

Design Automation inside SOLIDWORKS

DriveWorks allows you to quickly and accurately capture your CAD design data and create multiple variations of your SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies and drawings.

  • Capture the dimensions, features and components you want to drive in SOLIDWORKS
  • Rules-based file naming to control if DriveWorks creates new SOLIDWORKS® files or re-uses existing ones.
  • Create dynamic, data-driven forms to input the values that drive your design
  • Build design rules to drive your models using the values entered on a form
  • DriveWorks integrates with SOLIDWORKS® PDM Professional and files can be automatically checked into the vault.
  • Run the project again and again to create custom manufacturing files and quotes

DriveWorks Benefits

Easy to use software which will adapt to your business process

Design automation

Automating your design process lets you create custom designs quickly and efficiently. Automation is ideal for Same but Different design, where new orders or new products are based on a variation of your existing designs.

Automatically generate sales documents

Free up engineers from repetitive design tasks by automatically generating 2D and 3D drawings of your SOLIDWORKS CAD models, sales quotes, letters and manufacturing data.

Online product configurator

Implement an Online Product Configurator for your sales team, distributors and even customers to use. Use it to guide non-technical people through the custom product options available, provide a fast response to sales inquiries and configure accurate quotes quickly.

Anyone can configure your products

Whether your engineers and sales teams are in house, out in the field, or you work through dealers and distributors, a product configurator will let you create custom designs and a custom response quickly and professionally.