The major challenge for bespoke furniture designs in the hospitality industry is meeting deadlines. And to overcome them furniture manufacturers have adopted product configurators. Here are a few simple steps to build an efficient table configurator and save about 70% of design cycle time.
By implementing CAD design automation in SolidWorks, designers can automate complex and repetitive designs through logical rules. To name a few, Designers can generate better drawing accuracy, better data management and develop reusable design libraries with automation. This in turn reduces the design lead time and surges the quality of final deliverables.
Industrial design engineers and manufacturers have started using DriveWorks as an efficient design automation tool for eliminating repetitive tasks of modeling and drawings. Here we bring you top FAQs you might have when you initiate DriveWorks implementation or somewhere mid-way on the journey.
Furniture needs and design for the hospitality industry change fast and owners need to keep their furniture updated to keep up with markets. But meeting quick-changing design with personalization is a mammoth task. Designers and manufacturers miss deadlines and have adopted configurators to meet these challenges. But deploying it is a whole new challenge. Here we bring you a few simple steps to implement design automation using a product configurator.
How to Get Accurate Sales Quotes with DriveWorks Integration
One of the challenging tasks faced by engineered-to-order product manufacturers is responding to customer queries on time and with accurate quotes. ETO manufacturers have to customize designs with each query and generate revised quotes manually. This process is iterative, erroneous, and time-consuming. Such manual quoting cycles result in substantial losses for the manufacturer as they either lose the customer or miss product delivery timelines.
Integrating DriveWorks with Solidworks, ERP, and CRM automates the quoting process ensuring 100% accurate sales quotes. DriveWorks achieves this through:
- Rule-based price calculations linked to design modifications
- Fetching updated price lists ERP systems
- Accessing customer information to calculate offers and discounts
- Validating sales order based on advanced rules
Thus, automating quoting cycles with DriveWorks integration ensures accurate sales quotes improving your sales teams’ productivity. It gives you opportunities for up-selling /cross-selling and facilitates faster response to customers.
How to Create a Vanity Configurator Using Inventor iLogic
Read how a vanity product configurator can save time and money invested in sales and manufacturing for manufacturers. Follow the 5 steps to build an efficient product configurator that automates 3D CAD models, 2D CAD drawings & quote calculation. Using Inventor iLogic rules and Configurator 360, you can redefine your sales to the manufacturing process and uplift the customer experience.
Furniture industry is moving towards mass customization. And with mass customization comes design errors that seem unavoidable due to the iterative design process. It puts off the entire manufacturing process. But if you are implementing design automation correctly, you can reduce up to 99% of design errors and accelerate manufacturing! Read more about how we leverage design automation tools to speed up your furniture manufacturing.
In the mature furniture manufacturing industry, the variety and variability of the customer’s needs and behaviors are difficult to predict.
Thus, furniture manufacturing companies need to adopt product customization to cater to the personalized needs of their customers. A product configurator built as per your needs can enhance your customer’s experience, convenience, and accessibility with the help of:
1. Interactive 3D model
2. Automated real-time quote generation
3. Active guided selling mechanism
4. Easy web compatibility
5. Integration with ERP, CRM
Pressure Tank Configurator using DriveWorks
The 3D visual configurator, driven by a powerful set of rules, automates 3D models and generates custom BOMs, manufacturing drawings, and other technical documents. We offer visual CPQ solutions to help you go beyond price and product factors and deliver increased customer satisfaction.
Check out how we created a pressure tank configurator using DriveWorks for accurate quoting and automating the design of manufacturing drawings for one of the leading design experts of all types of Pressure Vessels & Accessories from the United States.
Want to discuss your project requirements with our visual configurator experts, please email us at info@hitechcaddservices.com
Design automation experts at Hitech CADD Services created a pressure tank configurator using DriveWorks. The DriveWorks configurator allowed the customers to select custom accessories, mountings, and features of the tank while providing accurate and instant quotes and automated the design of manufacturing drawings. Check out the full case study.