Case Study: Skyways Streamlines CAD Collaboration and BOM Management with Bild

Skyways Creating a Single Source of Truth for Cross-Functional Collaboration with PDM and BOM Management

Skyways, a company developing autonomous cargo drones, faced significant challenges with data management and collaboration. They used a combination of GrabCAD and a partner's SolidWorks PDM vault, which led to siloed data, frequent file overwrites, and unstable workflows. Their process for creating bills of materials (BOMs) was entirely manual, prone to error, and could take days to complete. This inefficient system hampered their ability to collaborate effectively with their design partner and slowed down their engineering progress.

By implementing Bild's product data and BOM management solution, Skyways established a single source of truth for their design files. Bild provided robust version control to prevent overwrites, automated BOM generation that was both accurate and dramatically faster, and a stable platform for seamless cross-functional collaboration. The vendor's solution delivered quantifiable results, with Skyways reporting that creating BOMs became seven times faster, saving hours of laborious work and allowing the engineering team to focus on innovation.

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Avery

Mechanical Engineer