Product category:
3D CAD software
News Release from: SolidWorks Corporation | Subject: DriveWorks
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 08 August 2001
First design automation application for
SolidWorks
Launched at SolidWorks World and at Solid Modelling in the UK, DriveWorks, from KB4, is the first product to achieve SolidWorks Solution Partner status in the Knowledge Based Engineering category
Launched at SolidWorks World in the US and at Solid Modelling in the UK, earlier this year, DriveWorks, developed by KB4, is the first product to achieve SolidWorks Solution Partner status in the Knowledge Based Engineering category and is already proving to be a valuable tool to those companies using SolidWorks and who are already (or would like to) 'mass customise' their product range through a series of product variations Researched, developed, and rigorously tested over the last two and a half years, DriveWorks has emerged as the first robust design automation and productivity application for SolidWorks
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 29 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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DriveWorks also shares the same SolidWorks interface that SolidWorks users are already so familiar with.
DriveWorks captures design and engineering knowledge and experience, or 'rules' inherent within the product design.
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Once captured, DriveWorks marries 'intelligence' with un-attended processing power to perform repetitive design engineering tasks.
The output is all the information required to manufacture and market product variants.
There are two important time-saving elements to DriveWorks.
Firstly the ability to rapidly create variations of existing products and assemblies, either with an as needed procedure, or by mass, unattended creation.
Secondly the ability to create a brand new product or assembly, based on rules, and then to add existing (or new cloned) sub-assemblies or parts to the main assembly.
DriveWorks allows engineering knowledge to be shared, distributed and managed and its clone feature even enables non-technical members of the company such as those responding to tenders and quotations, to very quickly develop variants of the company's product range.
Engineers themselves are pleased to find that they can devolve repetitive tasks to non-technical staff or to the computer to process and themselves get on with other more interesting and demanding tasks for which they were originally trained.
DriveWorks integrates with existing applications rather than replacing them.
Interfaces included with the standard product include calculation spreadsheets and Bills of Materials.
It uses familiar tools like Microsoft Excel, which all engineering companies have.
The provided data capture module makes sure that capturing design variables and rules is as easy as using SolidWorks.
This ease of use and integration means that even the novice user can get to grips with the system very quickly.
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