Automate repetitive tasks in design phase with product configuration

Are you struggling to finalise projects within a deadline because most of your time is spent on repetitive manual tasks?

Engineers usually spend over half their time on repetitive manual tasks that don’t really add value to the products they design. Reducing, or even eliminating, these manual steps and streamlining the engineering process can free up much time for more valuable work. So, instead of struggling to complete projects or taking on more engineers, why not start automating your engineering processes?

Same, yet different

At Symetri, our approach is to support you in automating your engineering processes based on product configurators. With our technology, we are able to support both Configure-to-Order and Engineer-to-Order processes, including project-specific parametric models and drawings.

Design Automation is implemented in phases, starting with basic tasks such as file copying and naming and ending with fully parametric models and drawings created according to recipes transferred from a sales configurator or your company’s own calculation program.

Design automation process

Key benefits of Design Automation include:

Capturing engineers’ knowledge and saving it as one single source of information
Standardising drawing and model creation, including materials to be sent to your customers
Eliminating repetitive tasks and at the same time making the daily work more interesting
Implementing different automation components in steps
The user interface can be configured according to your company’s needs
Automation of drawing creation, BoM export and secondary file format creation
Enabling engineering changes to project-specific parts and assemblies (ETO process)
Set-up of fully automatic design and drawing configurators that run exactly according to a recipe from a sales configurator or, for example, a company’s own calculation program (CTO process)

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