CADTALK CASE STUDIES

Paragon Water Systems has designed and manufactured water filtration in Tampa, Florida since 1988. Most of what Paragon builds carries someone else's name on it: residential systems, foodservice and commercial filtration, refrigerator inline filters, and its own carbon block line. Arena PLM held engineering's data. IFS Cloud is what the rest of the company uses. Between them sat manual entry.

The PLM directly affects the ERP, everyone can see it, and information being correct in a controlled environment became something the whole company cares about.

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PBC Linear, a global specialty manufacturer of bearings and linear motion systems, spent 20 years pursuing complete automation from customer configuration to shop floor production. When CADTALK integrated with their existing Infor CPQ system, it automatically pushed manufacturing information from SolidWorks models directly into their ERP, generating job packets without human intervention. Results were extraordinary: processes compressed from weeks to 10 minutes, over $1 million in annual savings, and unprecedented agility. Recent engineering changes affecting 15,000 SKUs—previously requiring weeks—were completed in under 24 hours, delivering $100,000+ in savings alone.

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Milbank Manufacturing, a leader in electrical metering equipment production, needed to modernize operations by transitioning from tabulated drawings to 3D modeling while implementing IFS as their new ERP. Facing manual part number assignments requiring four full-time employees and 24 engineers, the company struggled with laborious spreadsheet iterations and quality checks. After implementing CADTALK's intelligent bi-directional integration, Milbank automated BOM part number assignments with a single button push, freed up staff for strategic projects, and achieved faithful communication between 3D models, prints, and IFS.

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Sands Agricultural Machinery, a British manufacturer of self-propelled crop sprayers and heavy agricultural equipment, struggled with disconnected Autodesk Inventor CAD and Infor CloudSuite Industrial ERP systems. Design work wasn't consistently transferred to ERP, purchased items were tracked but manufactured items weren't, requiring excessive manual work and constant firefighting. After a failed attempt with another integration solution lacking automation and configuration options, Sands implemented CADTALK and immediately appreciated its ease of use and extensive configuration capabilities.

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Peerless-AV, an 80-year audiovisual solutions leader, faced critical challenges during their ERP migration from an outdated system. Data consistency issues plagued operations with scattered files and incorrect design data, while manual data entry forced engineering to re-enter information multiple times across systems. After implementing SOLIDWORKS PDM, Acumatica ERP, and CADTALK integration, Peerless-AV eliminated redundant data entry as design data now flows automatically from SOLIDWORKS to Industrial Engineers. The streamlined workflow improved data accuracy, accelerated time-to-market, and provided scalability for growing product lines.

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Steven Louw, System Administrator at Pump and Abrasion Technologies, a global manufacturer of heavy-duty pumping solutions, spent hours manually transferring BOMs from SOLIDWORKS to SYSPRO ERP. Each BOM required 15-20 minutes of manual export, Excel reformatting, column matching, and piece-by-piece uploading—totaling 15+ hours monthly. Having used CADTALK previously, Steven implemented it at PABT with immediate results. The process now takes just 2-3 minutes per BOM, saving over 10 hours monthly, freeing expensive SYSPRO licenses, and eliminating costly data entry errors.

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