Design Automation Assessment

Stop Designing
the Same Part
Twice.

Your engineers are losing hours every day to repetitive remodeling, manual data transfers, and design logic trapped in one person's head. Our free 90-minute Design Process Assessment identifies exactly where that time is going and what automation can recover.

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Minutes. Free.

No Cost, No Obligation

6–9mo

Typical Full ROI

Platforms We Can Help You Automate

Deep API integration across every major CAD, CAM, and PLM platform

If your engineers use it, we know how to automate it.

SolidWorks

CATIA

Siemens NX

PTC Creo

Autodesk Inventor

Where Design Cycles Break Down

The patterns we find in almost every engineering org

Most engineering organizations share the same root-cause inefficiencies. Here are the three we surface most often.

The Groundhog Day Effect

Engineers re-model similar parts for every new order. Hours are spent tweaking designs that could be generated in minutes with the right automation in place. The cost compounds every sprint.

The Data Disconnect

Data is manually transferred between CAD, CAM, and CAE tools. Every handoff carries risk: re-entry errors, disconnected BOMs, and procurement issues that trace back to a copy-paste mistake made steps upstream.

Trapped Tribal Knowledge

Critical design rules exist only in the heads of your senior engineers. When that person leaves or is unavailable, design quality drops and decisions funnel through one overloaded bottleneck.

"Your best engineers should be solving problems no one has solved before.
Not re-modeling parts they built last quarter."

Meet the Experts Leading Your Assessment

Your complimentary assessment is led by senior engineering specialists with deep experience in CAD, engineering automation and complex product development.

Dan Grabowski

Digital Engineering & Design Automation

Leads the IndX Engineering Automation practice for 100+ clients, with 15 years across CAD, CAE and manufacturing engineering automation.

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Greg Pappas

Engineering Systems & Product Development

Brings 15 years of design automation and NX Open development, building tailored solutions that reduce manual effort inside existing workflows.

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Ric Hotchkiss

CAD, Simulation & Engineering Innovation

Specializes in Knowledge Based Engineering and NX Open programming, with deep expertise in surface modeling, reverse engineering and design validation.

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IndX Solution Architect leading a design process assessment

Free. 90 Minutes. Zero Obligation.

The Free Assessment

90 minutes that pay for themselves

A high-impact consultation with a Senior IndX Solution Architect. We observe your actual workflows and deliver a clear picture of where engineering time is being lost and what automation can recover.

Onsite or VirtualYour choice. A Senior Solution Architect joins wherever most practical.

Zero CostFree to attend. The only investment is 90 minutes of your team's time.

Concrete DeliverablesYou leave with a documented OFI list, solution options, and transparent budgetary estimates.

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How We Spend the 90 Minutes

Structured, focused, immediately useful

Every minute is deliberate. You get a live analysis of your actual engineering workflows, observed in real time.

Minutes 0–15

Discovery Kick-Off

Brief overview of your product portfolio and current software stack. SolidWorks, CATIA, NX, Creo, Inventor. We know them all. This grounds the session in your specific environment, not a generic one.

Minutes 15–60

Over-the-Shoulder Workflow Analysis

We observe a designer executing a real task. A change order, a new product variant, a standard drawing update. Every redundant click, manual calculation, and data re-entry point is mapped in real time.

Minutes 60–90

Opportunity Mapping and Feedback

Immediate feedback session. Quick Wins are separated from Strategic Automation plays. You leave knowing what can improve next week versus what needs a phased rollout.

What You Walk Away With

Tangible outputs. Not a summary deck.

Three concrete deliverables from every assessment. No vague next steps or "we'll follow up" promises.

Deliverable 01

The OFI List

A documented OFI list tied to the specific process bottlenecks our architect observed. Concrete, actionable, and prioritized so you know where to focus first.

Deliverable 02

Solution Verticals

Automation approaches tailored to your environment. Product configurators, BOM automation, CAM templates, design checking. Specific to what we found, not a generic catalog.

Deliverable 03

Rough Order of Magnitude Pricing

Transparent budgetary estimates based on agreed solution areas. Scripts run $5k to $15k. Enterprise configurators range from $25k to $75k and above. Most clients reach full ROI in six to nine months.

Six Areas Where We Unlock Engineering Capacity

Built around what your workflows actually need

Based on what we uncover, the solution takes shape around your specific bottlenecks. These are the automation verticals we deploy most often.

Design Automation

Generate complex product variations and assemblies instantly from input rules. Stops variant proliferation from becoming a headcount problem and accelerates sales engineering cycles.

Configuration-Driven

Drawing and BOM Automation

Auto-generate 2D manufacturing prints and accurate Bills of Materials from 3D models. Eliminates manual transcription errors and cuts detailing team hours per project.

Downstream Accuracy

Design Checking

Automated design-rule checks run before release, not after a manufacturing issue surfaces. First-pass quality improves when rules are enforced by software, not by one overloaded senior engineer.

Quality at Source

CAM Template Automation

Standardized toolpaths across similar part families and automated machining strategy templates. The Design-to-Manufacturing handoff becomes systematic and repeatable instead of manual.

Design to Manufacturing

Design Assessment

Design Maturity and Readiness reviews, Design for X (DfX) evaluations, CAD and Modeling Quality checks, and Standards and Compliance assessments to baseline where you stand before automation begins.

Maturity Baseline

Product Configuration Automation

A full configurator for sales engineering. Sales reps or customers select options and the system instantly produces a valid configuration, complete BOM, and manufacturing outputs without engineering team involvement.

Sales Engineering

The Business Case

Automation is an investment in throughput

Not an expense. Most clients see full return on automation investment within the first year.

Cost of the Assessment

2–4wk

Proof of Concept Timeline

6–9mo

Typical Full ROI

2+ hrs

Saved Per Engineer Per Week

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See IndX in Action

Real work. Real results.

Real deployments, real outcomes across complex industrial engineering environments.

Case Study

Innovating the Future of Defense with Strategic Solutions

How IndX helped a leading defense engineering organization modernize complex design workflows and unlock engineering capacity.

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Solution Overview

Product Design Automation

Explore the full IndX Design Automation capability: CAD API integration, Knowledge-Based Engineering, configuration engines, and manufacturing automation.

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90 minutes. Zero cost.
Concrete outcomes.

Tell us about your engineering environment and the areas you want us to focus on. A Senior Solution Architect will be in touch to schedule your session.

You're on the list.

A Senior IndX Solution Architect will review your submission and be in touch within one business day to confirm your session.

Ready to Recover That Capacity?

Your next product shouldn't take longer to design than the last one.

90 minutes gives you a clear picture of where your engineering hours are going and a concrete plan to get them back. No pitch. A documented assessment with real options and honest numbers.

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