Industry · Industrial & mechanical equipment
Design Automation for
Industrial Equipment
A crane order lands: the model your team has built fifty times, except this bay needs two more metres of span. The girder changes, so the end carriage changes, so every drawing, calculation, and BOM line downstream changes with it. Two days of an engineer's week go to restating what the product already knows. We build that knowledge into a system, and the next order works itself out.
Sales input → Configuration rules → Quote · drawings · BOM
The challenge
Where Industrial Equipment Engineering Loses Its Week
Conveyors, pumps, compressors, heat exchangers: configurable products share one cost structure. Every sale re-runs the same engineering.
Quotes Queue Behind Engineers
A customer asks for a price. Getting one takes an engineer half a day of component selection, calculations, and drawing markups, on every enquiry, including the ones that never close.
Hundreds of Live Variants
Each frame size, drive option, and mounting arrangement is its own drawing set and BOM. Each manual edit is another chance to send the shop a wrong number.
Senior Time on Routine Work
The engineer who should be designing your next machine is re-dimensioning the current one. That trade repeats every week the queue exists.
Our solutions
What We Automate for Industrial Equipment Teams
Product Configurators (CPQ)
Sales picks options in a guided interface; the system runs the engineering behind them. Price, 3D model, and BOM come back in minutes, built on the same rules your engineers apply by hand today.
Learn more → ORDER SPECS → GA · FAB · ASSEMBLY DRAWINGSVariant Drawing Automation
One order in, the full set out: GA, fabrication, and assembly drawings with correct dimensions, annotations, and BOMs, identical to your standards on every run.
Learn more → DESIGN INPUTS → VALIDATED OUTPUTSEngineering Calculations
Structural, thermal, and mechanical checks run on every configuration and write their results straight into the model and BOM. No spreadsheet ferrying numbers in between.
Learn more → YOUR WORKFLOW → NATIVE CAD TOOLINGCAD Plugins & Integration
Add-ins for AutoCAD, Inventor, or SolidWorks that absorb the clicks your team repeats all day, and hand the results to your ERP without re-entry.
Learn more →Results
What Industrial Equipment Clients Measure After Go-Live
"FDES allowed us to meet our goals in time and on budget. They always put in the extra efforts to deliver a great result. Highly recommended." Marty Thomasson · President, Gearbox Solutions
Proof
Industrial Equipment Systems Already in Production
Screw Conveyor Product Configurator
Quoting a screw conveyor took 4-6 hours of engineering time. The web CPQ returns price, 3D model, and BOM in under 10 minutes.
Read the use case → CONFIGURATOR3D Workstation Configuration Platform
A browser-based 3D configurator wired into SolidWorks: assemble the workstation on screen, and production-ready CAD and documentation follow. No drafting queue.
Read the use case →Free · no obligation
Find Out Which Product Line Automates First
Some product families pay back in weeks; others aren't worth automating at all. The free audit tells you which is which, with your variants, your volumes, your numbers.
How we built the conveyor configurator →- An automation engineer walks your quote-to-drawing workflow
- Product families ranked by automation payback
- Engineering hours and error costs made explicit
- A pilot-first roadmap for your equipment line