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SMART CONFIGURATION ENGINE

WHAT IS IT?

We don’t just copy data – we transform it. Our engine understands that CAD and ERP systems speak different languages, and it quickly translates between them.

HOW DOES IT HELP YOU?

We dramatically reduce the need for manual intervention. A manufacturing company with 1,000+ unique parts can configure automated rules for 90% of their common engineering scenarios.

VISUAL INTELLIGENCE INTERFACE

WHAT IS IT?

An intuitive color-coded system that utilizes red, yellow, and green indicators of the traffic light system to quickly communicate the status of data transformation.

HOW DOES IT HELP YOU?

There’s no need for the mundane task of comparing changes line by line. With just a quick glance you can identify new, modified, and unchanged items.

ADAPTIVE DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS

WHAT IS IT?

CADTALK utilizes three distinct modes to fit your needs: Standalone for manufacturing teams, CAD-integrated mode for design engineers, and Fully Automated mode.

HOW DOES IT HELP YOU?

Every business has unique workflows and requirements. This allows us to meet your specific needs, whether you’re a small team or a large enterprise. Plus, we grow as your grow.

CALCULATE THE CADTALK DIFFERENCE

How much money and time can intelligent CAD to ERP integration save your manufacturing business? See for yourself with our ROI calculator!

Immediate Benefits

ENHANCED DATA QUALITY

COMMON PROBLEM

Poor data quality is costly. A manufacturing error from incorrect data entry can cost tens of thousands of dollars in materials and labor.

OUR SOLUTION

CADTALK pulls data directly from your CAD system, keeping data consistent. We eliminate the human errors that inevitably creep in during manual data entry.

DRAMATIC TIME SAVINGS

COMMON PROBLEM

Manually transferring a bill of material for a simple part is doable, but what if it has dozens or even hundreds of components. An entire day’s worth of work is used up in one task.

OUR SOLUTION

Our speedy automation paired with our easy-to-read interface creates quite the team of efficiency. In the time it takes for you to make a pot of coffee, you can transform your data AND check your work.

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

COMMON PROBLEM

Manual processes create bottlenecks in your system. Because of the bottlenecks you can’t get your product to market quickly. And that kills your revenue.

OUR SOLUTION

CADTALK can save hundreds of labor hours annually and unblock procedural bottlenecks. We accelerate your time-to-market and help you create a collaborative experience between your engineering and manufacturing teams.

CADTALK vs Manual Entry

Is CADTALK right for your business? Compare CADTALK to manual entry.

Is CADTALK right for your business?

Manual entry is the alternative most manufacturers are actually running today, even though no one's selling it to them. It carries a real cost. That cost just doesn't show up on an invoice.

Here's what manual entry actually costs, and what happens when you close the gap.

CADTALK vs. Manual Entry

Manual entry is the alternative most manufacturers are actually running today, even though no one's selling it to them. Here's what it actually costs.

	Manual Entry	CADTALK
Cost structure	Full engineer salary spent on re-keying data, every year, indefinitely	The same team, redirected to design work
Time per BOM	Hours, every time, for every engineer who touches it	Minutes, the same way every time
Errors	Caught downstream, if at all, after they've already cost something	Caught before anything reaches the ERP
Scaling up	More volume means more headcount doing the same manual work	More volume, same team, same rules
What changes over time	The manual step never goes away on its own	The rules engine adapts as your business rules change

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Manual entry feels free because there's no invoice for it. But an engineer re-keying BOM data all day is a fully loaded salary spent on work that isn't engineering. That cost doesn't disappear because no one's tracking it: it gets absorbed into headcount and into the errors that surface later on the shop floor.

Every month a manufacturer runs on manual entry is a month that cost repeats. And manual entry grows as the business grows. A new product line, a new customer, a new ERP upgrade: each one adds more manual work, because the process itself hasn't changed.

CADTALK’s smart configuration engine reads BOM data directly from your CAD or PDM environment and writes it into your ERP the same way every time, so your engineers spend their hours designing instead of re-entering what they already designed once.

Complex BOM entry reduced from 10 hours to under 5 minutes.

Russ Bassett Corporation

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See the difference

For a 10-engineer team, manual entry costs $234K a year in engineering capacity alone, before counting the downstream cost of errors that reach purchasing or the shop floor. That's hours spent re-keying data instead of designing, multiplied across a team, every year, whether or not anyone's put a number on it.

CADTALK closes that gap with a smart configuration engine. Customers see engineering-to-manufacturing lead time drop by 80%, with payback in 2 to 4 months based on recovered engineering hours alone.

See what closing this gap looks like for your team.

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