What is power2design

power2design can be many things to many people. First an foremost power2design is “intelligent software” that allows your engineers to take their SolidWorks data assets to a new level of efficiency and productivity.

Unlike traditional tools that attempt to automate sales, design, or engineering processes, power2 has the ability to “learn”. There are several competitive software solutions that can help you screen a database or catalog in order to generate a list of existing products that meet a customer's requirements. Often expensive and difficult to implement, they can solve this limited set of configuration problems.

Where they fall short is in the arena of more complex design problems, and especially problems that require visualization and spatial reasoning as part of the solution.

Complex configuration solutions also require flexible and dynamic integration of new design rules, since new products and new rules are constantly being introduced.

Only power2 has the ability to “think” through the most complex configuration solutions. Why solve 80 percent of the problem when you can solve the entire problem?

For Sales

It’s hard to get engineering expertise in a salesman or to find sales skills in an engineer. That doesn’t mean you’re condemned to an information tennis match between sales and engineering, with each volley eroding your profits.

Your Power2 built application integrates tightly with SolidWorks to:

• Handle Engineering Calculations
• Look up required data
• BUILD a valid 3D SolidWorks Model
• Generate any drawing and reports you desire
• Produce accurate Quotes

Now a sales person can generate a quote based on your best engineering expertise, without the engineer being there – the expertise is built-in!

Engineering is hard, but using Power2 is easy. Your engineers capture their design rules as diagrams to automate your design problems. Then, anyone who understands your product can enter a specification and generate correct designs and quotes.

With Power2 your quotes are quick and correct the first time, every time.

Too many companies lose out on opportunities because it simply takes them far too much time to generate an accurate quote. For complex products and systems, the knowledge required to accurately select and design solutions usually resides in the engineers, not the sales people.

In many cases the sales person collects customer requirements and then sends them to applications engineers back in the home office. It can take a week or more to return the information necessary to generate a sales proposal. This long cycle time can mean lost opportunities, as competitors learn to respond more quickly.

The inefficiencies that are prevalent in the model listed above create a situation we identify as “revenue leakage”. McKinsey research estimates that this represents upwards of 9% of total revenue in a typical organization.

Companies need to look for alternatives that simplify their sales process. power2 transforms the above process into a much simpler, manageable and profitable endeavor.

Configuration

Configuration isn’t design. Engineering means handling conflicting goads, making trade-offs and using resources efficiently. SolidWorks handles the geometry well, but even if you use a configurator, running “what-if” scenarios is just manually wandering blinding between design alternatives, never knowing if you have arrived.

Your Power2 built application integrates tightly with SolidWorks to:

• Systematically explore design alternatives
• Weed out invalid designs
• Rank valid designs in terms of solving an actual problem
• Identify the best solution
• Present the set of valid solutions

Now you can be confident that your engineering evaluations have been quickly but tirelessly applied, your alternatives have been systematically and exhaustively explored and you have identified the best design.

Engineering is hard, but using Power2 is easy. Your engineers capture their design rules as diagrams to automate your design problems. Then, anyone who understands your product can enter a specification and generate great designs.

Power2 gives you the opportunity to optimize each and every design. Ratchet up your products to a new level of excellence with Power2.

Drawings, Reports, etc., etc.

It doesn’t help to speed up one part of the design process, if the other parts are still slowing you down. Power2 allows you to take control your design process in by automating it to produce coordinated design documentation, ready for your customers and ready for manufacturing.

Your Power2 built application integrates tightly with SolidWorks to:

• Handle engineering calculations
• Look up data
• BUILD valid SolidWorks 3D Models
• Generate Drawings
• BOM Generation
• Quotes
• Sales Reports
• Engineering Reports
• Management Reports
• Etc.

Now, a single person can handle tasks that required contributions from several people in sales and engineering, while both speeding up the process and producing a correct and consistent set of design documents.

Engineering is hard, but using Power2 is easy. Your engineers capture their design rules as diagrams to automate your design problems. Then, anyone who understands your product can enter a specification and generate correct designs.

Kick start your entire design process. Generate drawings, BOMs and reports with Power2.