1. Quote-to-Design Automation:
What are the Best Tools?

2. Agenda
• Who is D3?
• Who is an automation target?
• Why automation today?
• iLogic / VB / ERP, when and why?
• Common Hurdles
• D3 process

3. Manufacturing solutions provider since 1998
Focused experience within the manufacturing industry
• Certified Inventor experts
• Certified Manufacturing Solutions Implementation experts
• Certified Data Management Implementation experts
Top 10 Loyalty partner – Partner of the Year 2008
Autodesk Certified Experts

4. We are still an Autodesk manufacturing
focused partner
Heavy focus on DM Integrated Solutions
Heavy focus on ETO Automation Solutions
Consulting focused – workflow optimization

5. We were the first Partner to work with
ETO
Were the only reseller authorized until
2013
Are the leader in developing tools for
ETO
Tools – Expertise – Process - Proven

6. Who is an Automation target?
Cabinets/Consoles
Transformers
HVAC
Conveyors

7. Who is doing Automation?
In short for Design:
• Rules Based
• Same but different
• Need to simplify sales process

8. In short for Outputs:
• Have lots of drawings
• Need to integrate data
• Need to reduce backlog
Who is doing Automation?

9. Complex to Simple

10. Complex to Simple

11. • Sometimes referred to as ETO
(Engineer-to-Order)
• Three Types
– Design Engineering Automation
• Engineering to Plant Floor
– Sales Engineering Automation
• Sales Rep/Dealer/Client to Plant Floor
For configurable products/designs
Same but different or “one-offs”
– Workflow Automation
• Backend Outputs
What is Engineering Automation?
Web Based Video

12. What is Engineering Automation?

13. Weeks to Hours
Hours to Minutes
What is Engineering Automation?
• It is Workflow or Process Automation
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• Typically very expensive problems

14. • Losing sales because you can’t return a bid
package quick enough
• Looking to expand a market presence where you
are not the leader
• Losing your intellectual property when
employees leave or retire
• Your competition is making changes that are
impacting your business
Why automation today?

15. Engineering Automation
•Myths and Misconceptions
• Automation = robotics
• Extremely expensive
• Used for employee reduction

16. Inventor iLogic Vs. Inventor ETO
Inventor iLogic Limited to desktop use.
Inventor ETO For desktop use, web deployments
and mobile applications.

17. Inventor iLogic Vs. Inventor ETO

18. 6 Reasons to Prefer ETO over iLogic
1. Performance issues with a large scale iLogic
application; difficult to debug
2. Application needs to be deployed across an
enterprise, to engineering and sales teams
3. Application needs to be deployed on the
web/mobile
4. Application needs to be integrated into a PDM
(Vault or other), ERP or PLM system
5. Frequent reuse of files across projects leading to
duplicate files and inefficient part numbering
system
6. Substantial automation of manufacturing drawings
is required

19. Comparing VB/.NET and ETO
≠ETO
.NET

20. $1.2M/
11.6 people
$544K/
5.2 people
$121K/
1.2 people
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
AutoCAD Automation Inventor Automation
with VB/Excel
Inventor ETO
Automation
Annual Maintenance Cost
4.5X
Comparing VB and ETO

21. Comparing VB/.NET and ETO
• CTO prebuild data
• UI lack of flexibility
• Lack of agility with 3D modelers
• Revise, Compile, deploy, demand deploy, force
deploy vs. Easy revise Or adopt model and post

22. Common Hurdles…
• Why Change – our Lights are on & Doors are open
• We have an internal programmer – So
• ERP does it – Some are configurators, not ETO
• ERP agnostic – You don’t have to wait
• ERP fears – but have you worked with ours?
• Ours is complex – We Do Complex

23. •Growth through efficiency
•Increase Market Share
•Capturing Intellectual Data
•You have to - Competition
Again, Why Automation….?

24. Process…

25. Questions
Daryl Price
Desk 877-731-7171 x111
Cell 417-763-4033
daryl.price@d3tech.net