Implementing design automation accelerates the whole product design process from the initial design stage to manufacturing. It shortens the time frame, so that it takes just a few minutes to complete several days’ worth of engineering work.
Design automation also simplifies tasks related to product design such as creating 3D models, drafting, creating design documents and estimating sales quotes. It enables these tasks to be performed smoothly and quickly, giving your company a competitive edge and helping you stand out from competitors.
Here are 5 major reasons why you should implement a design automation system for your product design.
- Profitability
In today’s challenging economic eco-system, a volatile economy means that profit margins are thin, and global competition in every segment of engineering and manufacturing shaves them down even more. The profitability of your product is highly dependent on the cost of design engineering so you have probably examined various options to lower this cost. Design automation is a unique means of cutting this cost as it enables you to spend less on manpower. You are no longer dependent on critical team resources as the software accurately captures all your design standards. You can rely on the software to complete design automation tasks quickly without the uncertainties related to human resources.
- Quick Sales Quotes
As design automation results in faster creation of your product design documents, you can estimate sales quotes much faster for your sales inquiries. Without automation, every time you receive an enquiry, the spec has to go to your design team for feasibility, design validation and manufacturing costing. This process takes some time to complete which keeps potential clients waiting. With automation’s fast turnaround time for quotes for sales inquiries, you can respond to clients much faster than your competitors. Instead of your sales team chasing engineers for quotes, imagine a CAD application that can create 3D models, generate manufacturing design data, and calculate accurate costing for your quotation at just the “Click of a Button”. Does that sound exciting? Yes, design automation can perform this miracle for you!
- Ease of Scalability
During the growth of a company, the sales and engineering teams often struggle to meet each other’s expectations. For a product design company, it is crucial for these teams to work effectively together so that the company can grow. When you are open to accepting challenging customer designs, the pressure of product design falls on the shoulders of the engineering department. They need to perform this task quickly to grab the deal, while also managing their other tasks. Design automation is an effective solution for this situation as the software application takes care of the product design work.
- Focus on Innovation Not Routine Tasks
Most of the time of any design engineering team has is spent on modifying an existing design and creating a new 3D model and design documents. Isn’t this an expensive and tedious method of creating design data? Implementing a design automation application for your product design can relieve your highly-skilled design engineers from doing repetitive tasks so they can dedicate their time to real product innovations!
- Integrate the Design Department with Your Software Systems
What happens when the systems in your company do not talk to each other? Lack of integration between your design department and other company systems leads to delays and duplication of work, with your design department functioning as an isolated island. Say goodbye to this isolation, as the software application implemented for design automation can easily be integrated with MIS, ERP, PDM and PLM systems. This smooth integration overcomes delays and duplicate work, and enables you to easily generate various reports for your management team to use as a basis for forecasts on expenses, costing, sales and manufacturing.
Trikonic is a fast-growing design automation company providing end-to-end design automation solutions for the engineering design process. Our CAD customization services for 2D and 3D CAD software and design utility development simplify your design process, improve how your design engineering team works, increase efficiency and cut costs.
