Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order 2012

As product lines become more configurable, reducing lead times has become a key business imperative for manufacturers offering engineer-to-order products. Autodesk® Inventor® Engineer-to-Order software (formerly Autodesk® Intent™ software) helps manufacturing companies to automate the order and bid process right at the point of sale by providing easy-to-use tools for capturing business and engineering rules. Inventor Engineer-to-Order offers a flexible development platform for creating custom branded applications, enabling sales and engineering teams to provide faster and more cost-effective delivery of products.

Inventor Engineer-to-Order can help companies to:

• Win more business by accelerating design efficiency and improving quoting accuracy
• Improve sales channel efficiency with powerful sales automation tools
• Connect sales and engineering teams by enabling the use of common rules
• Optimize sales and engineering resources

Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order Series features:

• Autodesk Intent technology to author and run rules
• Autodesk® Inventor® OEM redistributable modules

Discover Why Manufacturers Are Choosing Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order Software

To stay ahead of the competition when building unique products designed for a single customer, manufacturers turn to Autodesk® Inventor® Engineer-to-Order software to make the timeline from order to final release to manufacturing faster and more efficient. Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to- Order helps manufacturers reduce lead times and avoid
unnecessary delays so they can produce custom designs in less time, with better results.

Deliver Better Designs, Faster
To safeguard profits, manufacturers need to improve bidding accuracy and spend less time and money to deliver customized designs. Autodesk® Inventor® Engineer-to-Order software captures and uses engineering rules, configuration rules, and best practices to help manufacturers predict the actual cost of a completed design and provide quick and cost-effective delivery of products—helping protect the profits and margins of engineer-to-order (ETO), custom, and customized product manufacturers. In addition, Inventor Engineer-to-Order helps users reduce design errors, shorten design cycles, and significantly cut time spent on repetitive design tasks.

Focus on Design
Engineering teams often spend too much time on bid and order engineering processes. By automating design and configuration for the creation of ETO, custom, and customized products, Inventor Engineer-to-Order helps accelerate the productivity of engineers by performing the “by the numbers” part of their work—so they can focus on the business of new product design and innovation.

Save Valuable Resources
The cost of engineering resources can prevent sales teams from creating effective, valid, and timely proposals. Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to- Order creates design-specific configurations and documents rules so sales teams can effectively quote valid ETO designs without relying on expensive engineering resources.

The Engineer-to-Order Role
Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order captures and reuses the expert’s engineering knowledge to model ETO solutions and their complex interdependencies at the point of sale. Unique engineered solutions, based on customer requirements, are created and visually displayed. Iterative changes can be evaluated against the engineering knowledge model to optimize a solution, without tying up valuable, expert resources. As a result, sales teams can help to set customer expectations, capture crucial requirements, and accurately predict margins—all before a proposal is submitted. When the time comes to submit a complete proposal, it can be automatically generated, complete with customer requirements, price quotations, and drawings.

Benefits with Real Results
Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order software extends engineering knowledge, helping ETO business to increase sales, operate with greater efficiency, and maximize the value of existing technology investments through flexible deployment options.

Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order enables ETO businesses to:

• Capture and reuse engineering knowledge to configure engineered solutions at the point of sale
• Provide real-time, accurate quotations, configuration options with drawings, and customer-ready proposals
• Predict margins and protect profitability, before a proposal is submitted

To stay ahead of the competition when building unique products designed for a single customer, manufacturers turn to Autodesk® Inventor® Engineer-to-Order software to make the timeline from order to final release to manufacturing faster and more efficient. Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to- Order helps manufacturers reduce lead times and avoid unnecessary delays so they can produce custom designs in less time, with better results.

Case Studies

Hytrol Conveyor Puts Engineer-to-Order Sales in Motion 50 Percent Faster
Hytrol Conveyor Company depends on Autodesk software to help it solve a pressing business need: speeding product customization from the point of sale to delivery. As one of the largest manufacturers of conveyors and conveying hardware in the world, Hytrol needed to implement a real-time ETO solution to increase sales volumes and market share. With Autodesk engineer-to-order software, Hytrol’s distributor network was able to drive conveyor sales in the field, reduce sales cycles and engineering time by automating redesign for each order, automatically produce bill of materials and spare parts lists, and reduce order-management bottlenecks in engineering.

Evans Consoles Cuts Design Time
As a leader in the design and manufacturing of mission-critical control room consoles, Evans Consoles turned to Autodesk software to quickly generate full proposals and cut design time. With engineer-to-order software from Autodesk, Evans Consoles was able to drastically reduce the lead time to generate all proposals, which were previously quoted in its Calgary home office. By automating the design process with the fully interactive quoting tools, Evans Consoles cut full design time from weeks to hours for most orders, and enabled its dealers to design an impressive visualization of valid consoles to get instant feedback for customers.

System Requirements:

For General Part and Assembly Design (Typically Fewer than 1,000 Parts):

• Microsoft® Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise edition, or Microsoft® Windows Vista® (32-bit or 64-bit) Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition (SP2), or Microsoft® Windows XP Professional (SP3) or Professional x64 Edition (SP2)

NOTE: Microsoft Vista Hotfix KB971138 is required for installation on Vista operating systems. Please refer to http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS16323149 for complete information and access to Microsoft Vista Hotfix KB971138

• Intel® Pentium® 4, 2 GHz or faster, Intel® Xeon®, Intel® Core™, AMD Athlon™ 64, or AMD Opteron™ processor, or later
• 2 GB RAM or more
• Microsoft® Direct3D 10® or Direct3D 9® capable graphics card
• DVD-ROM drive
• Microsoft® Mouse-compliant pointing device
• 1,280 x 1,024 or higher screen resolution
• Internet connection for web downloads and Subscription Aware access
• Adobe Flash Player 10
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.x through
• Microsoft® Excel 2003 through 2010 for iFeatures, iParts, iAssemblies, thread customization, and spreadsheet-driven designs
• Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0

For Complex Models, Complex Mold Assemblies, and Large Assemblies (Typically More than 1,000 Parts):

• Windows 7 64-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit (SP2), or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2)

NOTE: Microsoft Vista Hotfix KB971138 is required for installation on Vista operating systems. Please refer to http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS16323149 for complete information and access to Microsoft Vista Hotfix KB971138.

• AMD64 or Intel® 64 processor
• 8 GB RAM or more
• CAD workstation-class graphics card
• Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0