RCI Engineering, Mayville, Wisconsin, USA

RCI Engineering is an engineering and manufacturing company, specializing in custom agricultural and off-road equipment. RCI provides turn-key machinery, from design through manufacturing, focusing on this and this.

SOLUTION
RCI uses CUSTOMTOOLS to define their products in SOLIDWORKS and transfer the needed metadata, including attachments (DXF and PDF) and preview images to Odoo ERP automatically.

VALUE
With the SOLIDWORKS- Odoo integration solution provided by CUSTOMTOOLS, RCI was able to streamline their operations for communication between engineering and production.

Additionally, time to set up new large self-propelled machines in procurement went down from 2 weeks to just 2 days.

Dynaset from Ylöjärvi, Finland

Dynaset is the leading global manufacturer of hydraulic generators, power washers, and compressors. Dynaset products are used for hundreds of applications in various industries all around the world.

SOLUTION
Dynaset is using the connector for exporting their CAD bill of materials to the ERP system, automatically creating new items in ERP. At the same time, they are automatically converting needed drawings to PDF, storing them in the file system, and linking to the created items in ERP. All this is automated to the degree that the SOLIDWORKS designer only has to click on a couple of buttons.

VALUE
Dynaset has measured an approximate 50% amount of time saved in setting up new products, items, and structures in ERP after starting to use CUSTOMTOOLS. At the same time, they have significantly reduced the number of errors and improved data consistency between the systems.