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News Release from: DriveWorks | Subject: DriveWorks
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 21 June 2002
Knowledge-based software is sold gold
DriveWorks from KB4 has been awarded SolidWorks Certified Gold Product status.
DriveWorks from KB4 has been awarded SolidWorks Certified Gold Product status DriveWorks is a knowledge-based-engineering (KBE) solution that enables users to easily capture product design rules and create customised, design to order products
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 20 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Since launching two years ago, DriveWorks has demonstrated its ability to save design time and allow engineering/manufacturing companies that design, engineer or assemble-to-order, to be more efficient, more competitive and better able to respond to their customers' demands.
"DriveWorks provides our customers with a fully integrated, best-in-class knowledge based engineering solution, allowing them to easily create multiple product iterations in a short amount of time", said Brian Houle, Gold Products Manager for SolidWorks Corporation.
"Engineers and non-engineers alike now have a powerful, easy to use solution for creating design to order products.
We're excited to welcome DriveWorks as the latest Certified Gold Product for SolidWorks".
With market leaders such as Gamble Manufacturing, Morganite, Rossendale Group and Whale Tankers among its customer base, DriveWorks has fast emerged as the proven knowledge based engineering solution.
It is now being used in the UK and US to capture the knowledge required to specify, price, design and manufacture products in several vertical markets.
Unlike high-end KBE systems, DriveWorks is affordable and easy to implement.
The cost of ownership is low because DriveWorks does not require expensive programming and customisation.
Once the design rules have been captured, using DriveWorks is so straightforward that the design engineers can leave non-technical people to work on specifying designs with customers, safe in the knowledge that the design integrity of the product has already been captured.
The automatic output includes 3D models, drawings, and a customer quotation, as well as all the required manufacturing information.
Glen Smith, Technical Director of KB4 commented, "The productivity gains with DriveWorks are such, that we are finding that some customers will select their CAD package based on DriveWorks' status as a SolidWorks Partner product.
We believe that SolidWorks is the only CAD vendor that can offer DriveWorks capabilities without extensive programming or customisation".
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