AUTODESK INVENTOR

CADTALK ERP

Autodesk Inventor

Overview

Go from engineering to manufacturing 5x faster!

Here’s the problem!  

You are a manufacturing company, and you do lots of engineering work.  You create new and update existing items, bills of material (BOMs), and routings.    You are doing this work today manually or, at best, you have a multi-step workflow that requires a spreadsheet, macros, and an import or copy and paste routine. Or worse, you tried another integration that didn't live up to the hype!

 That process costs you up to $100,000 per year in data entry, BOM errors, rework expenses, and demoralizing your staff who would rather spend time designing and manufacturing than entering data.    When a $1.00 Bill of Material mistake can cost up to 100X more if it gets to the customer and when engineering services are billed at $130 per hour, it does not take long to see that the current process won’t work anymore.

It’s time to get your engineering and manufacturing talking.... with CADTALK ERP!


HOW IT WORKS

CADTALK is a complete off-the-shelf, live, bi-directional integration between your CAD, PDM, or PLM and Acumatica. Every time a new part is designed or an existing part is revised, CADTALK ERP’s configurable intelligence engine translates engineering data to create new or updates existing stock items, bills of material, and routings in Acumatica. It identifies the changes between data inside CAD and data already in Acumatica, so you know which information needs to be updated (bidirectionally) between the two systems ensuring that everyone is working from the same up-to-date information.

CADTALK speeds up the engineering to manufacturing hand-off by 5X, by eliminating manual data entry and BOM errors. CADTALK ERP focuses on the entire engineering to manufacturing process the manufacturing routing including all labor operations, manufacturing cycle time calculations, scrap percentages, and more. It can even select the best vendor and warehouse location for items and can create inventory records by stocking location.

BENEFITS

  • Get to the Market 5x faster
  • Reduce lead time by as much as 80%
  • Minimize BOM mistakes that waste money and cripple productivity
  • Spend more time on value added work
  • Eliminates manual data entry, and saves  hundreds of hours per year

FEATURES

  • Industry leading configurable intelligence engine to automate tedious work
  • Color coded change tracking
  • Advanced expression based bi-directional field level mappings
  • Choice of CAD hosted or standalone hosted application.
  • Drag and drop BOM capabilities for easy BOM restructuring
  • Powerful and Intuitive BOM and routing editor
  • Custom Field Support
  • Intelligence based routing
  • Automatically include/exclude CAD components
  • ERP Validation: Ensure data integrity and accuracy

SCREENSHOTS

Acumatica BOM
Acumatica Mix of Icons Markup
Acumatica Rules
Acumatica Validation Error
Acumatica BOM Acumatica Mix of Icons Markup Acumatica Rules Acumatica Validation Error

FAQ

Here are some of the most frequently asked questions.

For more information about CADTALK, or if you need support, please visit the support center.

Does CADTALK ERP support uploading documents like images and PDF drawing to Acumatica?
CADTALK supports uploading images and documents to Acumatica both manually and through the intelligence engine.
What fields does CADTALK ERP support in Acumatica?
CADTALK supports every field on the Acumatica stock items and bill of material screens including attributes.
Can CADTALK ERP add parts to the BOM that are not in the CAD/PDM/PLM system?
Yes, users can use the CADTALK interface to search Acumatica and add non-CAD-parts to the bill of material.
Does CADTALK require a CAD license?
No, CADTALK can read most CAD files without a CAD license.
Who uses CADTALK?
Anyone who manages items and bill of material in Acumatica can use CADTALK ERP.

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PDM/PLM

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