Case Study: VIKASO achieves 60% faster collaboration and 50% hardware cost savings with Onshape

Industrial automation startup credits cloud-native Onshape for speeding up collaboration process by 60%

VIKASO is a UK industrial automation startup that integrates collaborative robots (“cobots”) into manufacturers’ production lines for customers ranging from startups to Rolls‑Royce, BMW and MINI. As the company prepared to expand its engineering team, its file‑based CAD workflow caused version‑control errors, slow collaboration with suppliers and customers, and required expensive high‑performance workstations and perpetual licenses.

VIKASO switched to cloud‑native Onshape, using its built‑in PDM, real‑time Editing/Sharing, Edit History and Comments to enable simultaneous work, transparent change tracking and 24/7 customer access. The move cut communication time with external partners by about 60–70%, halved hardware costs, sped onboarding and scaling, and eliminated the need for manual file exchanges and costly perpetual licenses.

VIKASO

Vaibhav Boricha

Director