Hagerman & Company offers customization, programming and design automation services

From simple customization of your CAD software all the way to a complete design automation solution, the goal of our customization, programming and design automation services is to use our tools and experience to help you take your company productivity to new heights.

For example, our expertise can help you and your company:

-Automate repetitive tasks

-Improve the ease of use and user acceptance of your current systems

-Ensure that all company personnel are performing work in the same manner and to the same standards

-Cut the amount of time it takes to perform individual tasks and complete projects

-Reduce errors

-Capture and distribute critical knowledge throughout the organization

-Eliminate re-keying of redundant information into multiple systems

-Tie together multiple in-house systems and databases

Examples of some of our work include:

-Developing custom Autodesk menus and symbol libraries for many different clients and applications

-Helping numerous customers upgrade their existing AutoCAD customizations to be compatible with new versions of AutoCAD

-Automatic batch processing software to allow customers to make mass changes and updates to current AutoCAD drawings

-Automated software to assist a manufacturer of lawn and garden equipment to process accounts payable more efficiently and interface with its ERP system

-Helping numerous customers pass item and bill of material information bi-directionally between CAD, MS-Office, PDM and ERP systems

-Developing solutions to assist numerous companies in processing ECO’s more efficiently including both local and remote users (via the web), sending e-mail notifications, parallel approvals, due dates, reminders, warnings, and logging of audit trails

-Custom software for a large AEC firm to automate the setup and enforcement of CAD standards throughout the organization

-Software to read work orders output from an ERP system in order to automatically batch print all drawings required by manufacturing personnel in the shop for production

Moving beyond the above types of projects, with a complete design automation solution, you can automatically produce:

-Sales Proposals

-Proposal drawings and 3D images

-Complete engineering drawings and designs

-Material lists and bills of material

-Cost estimates

-Routing sheets

-Output for other company business systems or databases

-Other related documents or data

Hagerman & Company design automation projects have played a role in success stories including the following projects:

-Helping a manufacturer of safety storage equipment automatically complete assembly and part designs, sheet metal flat blanks, and generate bills of material and pass them to its ERP system, eliminating mistakes and multiple entry of the same data.

-Enabling a manufacturer of refrigeration control valves to develop an automated CAD tool to be sent out to its customers. This tool allowed customers to configure and draw valve assemblies and place them into their system layouts.

-Creating a system for field sales staff and distributors of a manufacturer of moveable partitions for schools, convention centers, churches, etc. to automatically generate proposal drawings and quotes and synchronize all data with the home office

-Working with a manufacturer of wood- frame buildings to implement a system to generate multi-view proposal drawings, complete 3D framing and steel designs, quotes and complete material lists, for its line of custom agricultural, storage, retail and other buildings.

-Streamlining processes for a manufacturer of bleacher and other seating systems. The company cut its turnaround time for quotes and submittal drawings from as much as two weeks to about an hour, and its labor time per proposal from hours to minutes. These efficiencies freed up engineer's time to develop new and better products and systems.

If your company could benefit from any of the Hagerman & Co. services outlined here, please give us a call.

This page last edited on Tuesday, September 19, 2006