Case Study: ABCO Automation achieves 35% faster design cycles and 25% lower development costs with SolidWorks PDM Professional

Accelerating Automated Packaging and Manufacturing System Development With Solidworks Pdm Professional

ABCO Automation faced the challenge of increasing engineering efficiency to support rapid growth by better leveraging and mining design data, maximizing design reuse, and automating development-through-manufacturing processes. To address this, the company implemented SolidWorks’ SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional alongside its SOLIDWORKS CAD environment to tighten revision control, automate workflows, and feed product data into downstream systems.

Using SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional, ABCO automated BOM generation, integrated PDM data with its ERP, and expanded workflow automation to purchasing and quoting, which produced measurable gains: design cycles shortened by 35%, time to market accelerated by 25%, BOM generation sped up 50–60%, development costs fell 25%, and scrap/rework costs dropped 55%. The SolidWorks solution also enabled better design reuse and a real-time window into project status, delivering sustained productivity and cost reductions.

ABCO Automation

Michael Sveda

CAD Administrator