…Why DriveWorks?

My Why Automate blog is a very true story. I wanted to share it because it very effectively highlights the way DriveWorks can be implemented in an engineer-to-order business.

DriveWorks allows you to grow your implementation, start with an area of your business where the most significant gains can be achieved – the hose pipe. You will get results quick. You will start to get a return for the relatively small amount of investment. This could even be a sub-set of the product you sell the most of.

From there you can then easily scale things up; you will have implemented a good foundation on which you can add more of your product range and more of your product options – the irrigation system. This is where time savings really start to increase.

The most common fear of engineers, when they see DriveWorks, is for their jobs. I have yet to see a DriveWorks customer lay off engineers because of automating their design process. What I do see are engineers moving into a role they were trained to do. Rather than spend their day finding, then altering the closest template they find to the current order they are processing (then spend the night worrying if they actually did alter them correctly), they become designers again. Adding value back into the products they manufacture by being able to research new ideas - experiment with including all of God's botanical (mechanical) creations.

Then the time comes to experiment with the tools that come out of the DriveWorks 'box' to help with importing and exporting data to and from other company systems - integrate the rain water collection barrels into the irrigation system.

I often find companies who are contemplating automation think hard about the rain water collection barrels. Precious time is lost doing this, time that could have been used to move towards a hose pipe. And when they do think they have satisfied the need in their own minds, things change and nothing gets done – back to using the watering can.

Comments

[Sweeney]

Post your father's garden pics every few weeks, we can see how much automation is helping there!