SolidWorks and PDM
customization and consulting services
Over 20 years of professional experience in delivering implementation and deployment services
Vast knowledge of SOLIDWORKS CAD tools and PDM systems
A proven track record of working with a customer needs first - approach
Through our services, we deliver the same promise as with
the tool that we are developing:
Focus on your product design and let us automate the rest!
We are at your service
CAD-PDM-ERP INTEGRATION
WHAT CHALLENGE ARE YOU FACING?
“I need to export my bill of materials (BOM) to ERP for manufacturing/purchasing”
“I need to base my designs on existing product data in ERP”
“I need to re-use CAD/Design data in my ERP system”
“Time spent to manually create item and BOM in ERP”
“Manual tasks lead to a higher risk of human-errors”
HERE’S HOW WE CAN HELP YOU
SOLIDWORKS: CUSTOMTOOLS and custom development of an ERP integration via API
Connect any CAD to any ERP
The value what you get:
- Improved data quality/consistency
- Time savings through automatization
- Re-use design data in the whole product lifecycle
- Adopt your way of working
- Eliminate errors
- Increase confidence that the data is reliable
- Shorter lead time in projects as components to buy are earlier available in ERP to be purchased.
CAD/PDM MIGRATION
WHAT CHALLENGE ARE YOU FACING?
“I am changing my CAD from Solid Edge to SOLIDWORKS, I need to migrate custom properties”
“I am taking PDM into use, and need to migrate from a folder-based system”
“I am upgrading to SOLIDWORKS PDM 2020, need help in migrating data”
“I am migrating my data and files to a new PDM system”
HERE’S HOW WE CAN HELP YOU
Switching from Solid Edge to SOLIDWORKS
Migrating to SOLIDWORKS PDM
Migrating between SW PDM versions
Migrating from other PDM/PLM systems to SOLIDWORKS
The value what you get:
- Eliminate manual work in migration
- Huge time savings
- Re-use existing CAD data
- Fixing data
- Prevent from starting a new mess
- Migrate only the needed files
- Fix and address issues before or during the migration
SOLIDWORKS AND PDM
CONSULTATION
WHAT CHALLENGE YOU ARE FACING?
“PDM is running slowly”
“My SOLIDWORKS files are in old version format”
“I need to extract parametric information from SOLIDWORKS models to be used in CAM”
“I want to replicate certain files between different PDM vaults”
“Missing features compared to other PDM Systems, where others can have a competitive advantage”
“How can I integrate SW PDM to other systems (Non-ERP Systems)?”
“How to automate routines in PDM”
HERE’S HOW WE CAN HELP YOU
Automate everything in SW and PDM.
Extend existing features.
Customize task add-in for PDM.
Identify and fix bottlenecks in performance.
Upgrade SOLIDWORKS file version as a service.
SOLIDWORKS add-in to extract model parameters to the format you need.
The value what you get:
- Remove manual work
- Extend SW PDM Capabilities
- Make SW PDM more competitive against other PDM Platforms
- Make sure that SW PDM follows the company’s policies
- Control file access history
- Eliminate wait time
- Improve employee satisfaction due to better working methods
- Re-use and share your files
- Eliminate need to program CAM manually
- Saves time and reduces errors
CUSTOMTOOLS SERVICES
WHAT CHALLENGE YOU ARE FACING?
“I do not know how to design my CT data model best”
“I am struggling with database management”
“I want to move my CT environment on to a new database”
“CT Professional should be able to perform task X”
“I want to customize the Excel export in CT”
“I have big design team and I don’t want to manage users or take care of enrolling CUSTOMTOOLS updates”
HERE’S HOW WE CAN HELP YOU
- CUSTOMTOOLS implementation, taking into use
- User training
- Database and infrastructure management
- Extend existing features through custom development
- CUSTOMTOOLS extended support service
The value what you get:
- Solid CT data model, which is “future proof” for your design data management needs
- CT users trained and well aware of all the help and time-saving features in CT
- Custom CT functionalities available to support your business processes
- No need to worry about learning CUSTOMTOOLS admin tasks
“With the SOLIDWORKS- Odoo integration solution
provided by CUSTOMTOOLS, RCI was able to streamline
their operations for communication between engineering
and production.
As a result, setup times for new products
were reduced by 75%.”
Customer stories
our service customers.
“Top-notch people to work with. Very cost-effective, and they stand behind their work 100%.”
Randall Clark, Owner, RCI Engineering
RCI Engineering, Mayville, Wisconsin, USA
RCI Engineering is an engineering and manufacturing company, specializing in custom agricultural and off-road equipment. RCI provides turn-key machinery, from design through manufacturing, focusing on this and this.
SOLUTION
RCI uses CUSTOMTOOLS to define their products in SOLIDWORKS and transfer the needed metadata, including attachments (DXF and PDF) and preview images to Odoo ERP automatically.
VALUE
With the SOLIDWORKS- Odoo integration solution provided by CUSTOMTOOLS, RCI was able to streamline their operations for communication between engineering and production.
Additionally, time to set up new large self-propelled machines in procurement went down from 2 weeks to just 2 days.
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“Significant benefit has been the ability to integrate SOLIDWORKS CAD to the Oscar Pro ERP seamlessly.”
Atte Karppinen, Design Engineer, Dynaset Ltd.
Dynaset from Ylöjärvi, Finland
Dynaset is the leading global manufacturer of hydraulic generators, power washers, and compressors. Dynaset products are used for hundreds of applications in various industries all around the world.
SOLUTION
Dynaset is using the connector for exporting their CAD bill of materials to the ERP system, automatically creating new items in ERP. At the same time, they are automatically converting needed drawings to PDF, storing them in the file system, and linking to the created items in ERP. All this is automated to the degree that the SOLIDWORKS designer only has to click on a couple of buttons.
VALUE
Dynaset has measured an approximate 50% amount of time saved in setting up new products, items, and structures in ERP after starting to use CUSTOMTOOLS. At the same time, they have significantly reduced the number of errors and improved data consistency between the systems.
So, how can we help you?
Would you need some custom functionality for your current design tooling? Or perhaps you need to automate data input or some other part of your design or manufacturing process? Would you like to be the next success story?
Get in touch with us, and we’ll find out what is the best solution for you:
