Micro Concepts helps AutoCAD Electrical users to swift ROI
Published 3:35 pm, Tue 5 Aug 2008
Duxford Air Museum in Cambridge played host to a conference presented by Micro Concepts in July, introducing more than sixty East Anglian electrical design and manufacturing professionals to AutoCAD Electrical 2009.
The aim of the conference was to demonstrate how the intelligence behind the software could help users speed up their design processes and get their products to market faster. Most of the delegates were unfamiliar with AutoCAD Electrical, and were surprised by the potential it offered. As Micro Concepts’ Tim Simmonds put it, “In times of economic uncertainty, if you can offer a product that genuinely increases manufacturing efficiency and speeds up ROI, people are going to bite your hand off to get it.”
The conference proved an ideal forum for discussing the software’s features in an unpressured environment. “People came because they wanted to see us using the product and they wanted to see how they could relate it to their businesses,” said Simmonds.
Micro Concepts is dealing with more than a handful of new customer orders resulting from the conference as well as orders for new products from existing clients wanting to take advantage of the productivity gains that can be realised through the new features of AutoCAD Electrical 2009.
“It all goes to prove that there is a real demand in the market for this kind of software,” he continued.. “When people understand what it can do, this sort of tool is promoted from a want to a need”.
AutoCAD Electrical software was developed to create and modify electrical controls designs and it enables users to do this in a familiar AutoCAD environment. It helps users create better designs by allowing them to focus on design and engineering tasks rather than on repetitive drafting functions.
Project reports such as bills of materials, to/from wire lists and terminal reports are generated automatically from the schematics. This capability alone helps reduce errors and results in significant productivity gains.
Associative production drawing functionality enables users to automate drawing creation, thus accelerating design time. Overall, users can make design changes faster and more accurately than with basic AutoCAD software.
