1. Quote-to-Design Automation: What are the Best Tools?

2. Agenda Who is D3? Who is an automation target? Why automation today? iLogic / VB / ERP, when and why? Common Hurdles D3 process

3. Manufacturing solutions provider since 1998 Focused experience within the manufacturing industry Certified Inventor experts Certified Manufacturing Solutions Implementation experts Certified Data Management Implementation experts Top 10 Loyalty partner Partner of the Year 2008 Autodesk Certified Experts

4. We are still an Autodesk manufacturing focused partner Heavy focus on DM Integrated Solutions Heavy focus on ETO Automation Solutions Consulting focused workflow optimization

5. We were the first Partner to work with ETO Were the only reseller authorized until 2013 Are the leader in developing tools for ETO Tools Expertise Process - Proven

6. Who is an Automation target? Cabinets/Consoles Transformers HVAC Conveyors

7. Who is doing Automation? In short for Design: Rules Based Same but different Need to simplify sales process

8. In short for Outputs: Have lots of drawings Need to integrate data Need to reduce backlog Who is doing Automation?

9. Complex to Simple

10. Complex to Simple

11. Sometimes referred to as ETO (Engineer-to-Order) Three Types Design Engineering Automation Engineering to Plant Floor Sales Engineering Automation Sales Rep/Dealer/Client to Plant Floor For configurable products/designs Same but different or one-offs Workflow Automation Backend Outputs What is Engineering Automation? Web Based Video

12. What is Engineering Automation?

13. Weeks to Hours Hours to Minutes What is Engineering Automation? It is Workflow or Process Automation EB C Y DA Z H GF IL K J Typically very expensive problems

14. Losing sales because you cant return a bid package quick enough Looking to expand a market presence where you are not the leader Losing your intellectual property when employees leave or retire Your competition is making changes that are impacting your business Why automation today?

15. Engineering Automation Myths and Misconceptions Automation = robotics Extremely expensive Used for employee reduction

16. Inventor iLogic Vs. Inventor ETO Inventor iLogic Limited to desktop use. Inventor ETO For desktop use, web deployments and mobile applications.

17. Inventor iLogic Vs. Inventor ETO

18. 6 Reasons to Prefer ETO over iLogic 1. Performance issues with a large scale iLogic application; difficult to debug 2. Application needs to be deployed across an enterprise, to engineering and sales teams 3. Application needs to be deployed on the web/mobile 4. Application needs to be integrated into a PDM (Vault or other), ERP or PLM system 5. Frequent reuse of files across projects leading to duplicate files and inefficient part numbering system 6. Substantial automation of manufacturing drawings is required

19. Comparing VB/.NET and ETO ETO .NET

20. $1.2M/ 11.6 people $544K/ 5.2 people $121K/ 1.2 people 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 AutoCAD Automation Inventor Automation with VB/Excel Inventor ETO Automation Annual Maintenance Cost 4.5X Comparing VB and ETO

21. Comparing VB/.NET and ETO CTO prebuild data UI lack of flexibility Lack of agility with 3D modelers Revise, Compile, deploy, demand deploy, force deploy vs. Easy revise Or adopt model and post

22. Common Hurdles Why Change our Lights are on & Doors are open We have an internal programmer So ERP does it Some are configurators, not ETO ERP agnostic You dont have to wait ERP fears but have you worked with ours? Ours is complex We Do Complex

23. Growth through efficiency Increase Market Share Capturing Intellectual Data You have to - Competition Again, Why Automation.?

24. Process

25. Questions Daryl Price Desk 877-731-7171 x111 Cell 417-763-4033 daryl.price@d3tech.net