Engineer-to-order manufacturing for Infor CSI
Let CADTALK get your systems talking, so your engineers do the work they were hired to do.
The Problem
Manufacturing that's engineered to order carries built-in complexity; no two jobs look quite the same. Each new quote demands fresh drawings, fresh part numbers, fresh routings. But getting the data there falls on your engineering team.
Here's what actually happens.
Once the design is locked in within your CAD system, the real work begins elsewhere: someone, likely an engineer, has to open Infor CSI and manually rebuild it: the BOM structure, the routings, the item masters, the part numbers. All of it already existed the moment the design was finished, yet by the time an order finally ships, your highest-paid technical staff have burned hours retyping information that was sitting there all along.
Ask around your engineering team. You'll hear some version of, I didn't go to school for data entry. They're right. And every hour they spend re-keying a BOM that already exists in CAD is an hour they're not spending on the design work you hired them for.
The real cost of the manual handoff
In ETO environments, this happens on every job, every quote, every engineering change order. Three things tend to happen:
Errors Compound Downstream
A wrong part number in the BOM becomes a wrong part on the shop floor, which becomes a schedule slip, which becomes a customer call no one wants to make.
The Cost adds up fast
Manual BOM re-entry runs roughly $234K a year in lost engineering capacity for a 10-person team (hours that could go toward design instead of data entry).
One Person Becomes the Whole Process
The engineer who "just knows how to do it" goes on vacation, and suddenly no one's quite sure how the BOM gets into Infor CSI correctly.
Infor CSI is a strong systems, built for exactly this kind of complexity. The gap is what feeds it.
A Different Data Pipeline
CADTALK reads the approved design straight out of your CAD or PLM environment and writes it into Infor CSI, structured and production-ready. It's configurable, not custom. The rules live in an engine your team can inspect, so an Infor CSI upgrade doesn't break it.
The logic your engineers have always relied on (which routings pair with which parts, how you number variants, when a revision is triggered) gets documented once, in a place visible to the entire team. Instead of living in someone's head, that knowledge becomes part of a dependable, repeatable process.
A 10-engineer team recovers roughly $234K a year in engineering capacity, sees lead times drop 80%, and hits payback in 2 to 4 months. In production environments, not a demo.
People aren't paid to be firefighters here.
We are accurately tracking the items and components that are used on each machine. It means that we're ordering things at the right time in the right quantities, so it's freeing people up and freeing their time up to do less firefighting. People aren't paid to be firefighters here.
Ben Johnson
Sands Agricultural Machinery
Built for How ETO Actually Works in Infor CSI
CADTALK already runs inside Infor CSI, handling the exact pattern engineer-to-order manufacturers deal with daily: high mix, frequent engineering changes, configured products that don't fit a static BOM template. If you're running Infor CSI alongside SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD, Creo, Solid Edge, Tekla, EPLAN, Altium, or another supported CAD, PDM, or PLM system (including SolidWorks PDM, Autodesk Vault, PTC Windchill, Siemens Teamcenter, Arena PLM, or Dassault Enovia 3DX), this is the gap CADTALK was built to close.
Your engineers get their time back. Infor CSI gets the clean data it needs to do its job. And the next order doesn't wait on someone finding a spare hour to type it in.
CADTALK is listed on Infor CSI’s’s own global price lists for direct quote and resale.
See what the handoff looks like automated for your CAD and Infor CSI combination.
