Integrate Your CAD System With IFS

Transform your engineering data into powerful manufacturing insights with CADTALK's certified IFS integration solution.

IFS Integration

CADTALK delivers a purpose-built integration between your CAD, PDM, or PLM systems and IFS ERP, transforming engineering data into fully validated, production-ready records with unmatched speed and accuracy.

CADTALK intelligently maps and configures your data to fit the exact structure, logic, and custom fields of your IFS environment. CADTALK ensures complete alignment between engineering and manufacturing operations.

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Key integration features

Automatic creation and update of items, routings, and multi-level manufacturing BOMs
Support for custom fields and validations defined in your IFS
Real-time communication with IFS to verify existing parts, pull dropdown options, and enforce required fields (e.g., product codes)
Smart logic engine infers assembly operations, merges subassemblies, and applies configuration rules (no scripting required)
Direct image transfer from CAD models into part records in IFS (optional)
Change tracking and error validation built-in before saving to IFS

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CADTALK integrates your design environments and IFS.

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Frequently asked questions

Does CADTALK ERP support IFS revisions?
Yes, CADTALK compares revisions in CAD/PDM/PLM with IFS revisions and merges the necessary changes
Does CADTALK ERP support uploading documents like images and PDF drawings to IFS?
CADTALK supports uploading images and documents to IFS both manually and automatically through the intelligence engine.
What fields does CADTALK ERP support in IFS?
CADTALK supports every field on the Engineering Part, revisions, and structure and Inventory parts, revisions, product structure, and routings.
Can CADTALK ERP add parts to the product structure that are not in the CAD/PDM/PLM system?
Yes, users can use the CADTALK intelligence engine and the interface to search IFS 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 ERP?
Anyone who manages parts and structures in IFS can use CADTALK ERP.

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Complete IFS integration capabilities

BEYOND BASIC IMPORTS

Engineering parts and structures
Inventory parts and product structures
Manufacturing routings
Revisions and engineering change orders

INTELLIGENT DATA TRANSFORMATION

Custom properties mapped and checked before anything reaches IFS
Document attachments carried with each part
Data from your PDM or PLM, as well as CAD
SolidWorks, Inventor, Creo, Solid Edge and other major CAD platforms

What CADTALK customers are saying

CADTALK platform makes for happier customers.

CADTALK’s bi-directional capability helps to automate part number creation for new items and ensure existing items are assigned the correct part number. The CADTALK platform reduces manufacturing lead time, improves inventory accuracy, and makes for happier customers.

Nick Knight
President, ASWi

We were able to get through it within a couple of weeks

Your team worked very quickly to get us access to those custom fields and get them set up. We were able to get through it within a couple of weeks. It was pretty fast! That was cool to find out in that moment, yes, we did choose to work with the right people on this process.

Bryce Ludwig
Milbank Manufacturing

The initial reaction was how easy CADTALK was to use

The initial reaction was how easy [CADTALK] was to use. How easy it was just to load in a drawing… Very few settings when you’re uploading something because you can configure it so that it works out what it needs to be and does all the correct combinations.

Ben Johnson
Sands Agricultural Machinery

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