Name: Tacton Design Automation
Rating: 9 (4 reviews)
Author: Tacton

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Tacton Design Automation

CAD Software (computer-aided design) software is used by architects, engineers, and others to create precision drawings or technical illustrations. This category of software can increase productivity, and improve quality. It also aids communication between designers by creating documentation and creates a database for manufacturing. CAD can be used to create two-dimensional (2-D) drawings or three-dimensional (3-D) models, and is frequently used in the design of electronic circuit boards in electronic devices.

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

The Scandinavian Digital team configured this bag filter with Tacton Design Automation Studio in just a few minutes. It is possible to see the 3D model being updated after changing parameters, and the generation of 2D drawings is fully automatic as well as the Bill of Materials. The 3D CAD model was created with Autodesk Inventor, but also works with SolidWorks and PTC Creo.

Bag Filter Autodesk Inventor DEMO - Tacton Design Automation Studio

Elevator Autodesk Inventor DEMO - Tacton Design Automation Studio

Likelihood to Recommend

With Tacton CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote), B2B
manufacturers can maintain and sell highly customizable products as if they
were standard. Our award-winning configuration and pricing engine, allows you
to control your custom product’s thousands of parts and commercial rules with
small set of constraint, generating millions of valid, builable and profitable
product variants. 



With needs-based configuration, instant pricing
for every configurator selection, real-time 3D product visualization and
automatic generation of CAD files, your sales reps will be able to define,
price and order complex and custom products, without sales engineering support.
Let your sales engineers innovate your products and let your sales reps talk
value with your customer. 

 

With Tacton’s omni-channel capabilities, you
can offer Configuration, Pricing and Quoting of your products not only to
direct sales, but also to resellers and end customer in self-service and
eCommerce channels. This radically boosts your sales capabilities. 

 

With Tacton’s rich APIs and integrations, data
from PLM, ERP, CAD and CRM can be leveraged in Tacton CPQ to remove your data
silos. Use our analytics API to use the transaction data created in Tacton CPQ
to create actionable business insights in your preferred Business Intelligence
tools. 

 

 

USP:

In contrast to other CPQs, Tacton can handle
highly complex and customizable industrial equipment. With Tacton’s attribute
constraints, your product engineering team will be able to express and maintain
all the logic of your product variance, separating valid from invalid product
configurations. Our out-of-the-box and easy-to-use configurator, empowers sales
rep, resellers and even end-customers themselves to define highly customized
and error-free equipment – without involvement of sales engineering. 

 

With Tacton CPQ you will increase revenue,
increase sales velocity, decrease sales costs and decrease costs of order
errors and warranties. Sell with certainty – quote with confidence. In
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for CPQ, Tacton has been recognized as a “Visionary”
in three consecutive years.

 

Tacton provides solutions to our global
customers such as ABB, Bosch, Caterpillar, Daimler, MAN, Mitsubishi, Siemens,
Toshiba and Yaskawa. Tacton is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and
Stockholm, Sweden, with regional offices in Karlsruhe, Germany, Warsaw, Poland,
and Tokyo, Japan.

Tacton

Computer-Aided Design Software

Computer Aided Design Software features aid in automating the design processes.

3D Modeling

Allows users to create and manipulate 3D objects with precise measurements and control.

2D Drafting

Provides tools for creating and editing 2D drawings, including the ability to add dimensions, annotations, and symbols.

Rendering and Visualization

Allows users to create realistic images and visualizations of their designs, including the ability to apply materials, textures, and lighting effects.

Parametric Design

Enables users to define and modify design parameters, allowing for faster iteration and design changes.

Collaboration and Sharing

Provides tools for sharing and collaborating on designs with others in real-time, including the ability to track changes and manage design revisions.

Compatibility with other software and formats

Allows users to import and export designs in various file formats, ensuring compatibility with other software and stakeholder requirements.

Assembly Design

Enables users to create and manage assemblies of multiple components, including the ability to define relationships and constraints between parts.

Simulation and Analysis

Provides tools for simulating physical properties and behaviors of designs, allowing users to test and optimize their designs before production.

Documentation and Annotation

Allows users to create detailed technical drawings, including the ability to add dimensions, annotations, and symbols.

Customization and Extensions

Provides options for customizing the software interface or to include add-ons which extend the functionality of the software.

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Design Automation Developer / Implementer

Tacton 2018-02-27 14:16:47

Epicor Kinetic

Principal Mechanical Engineer

Tacton 2018-01-24 19:54:46

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End up

Better functionality

Using excel

Setting up

Particular product

Keep track

Better organize

Similar to excel

Common data

Easily add

User interface

Incredibly flexible

Quick and simple

Data entry

No knowledge

End user

Programming languages

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Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Software

Currently, it is being used in the engineering/design department. We use Tacton with our design automation. 

We have dramatically reduced our design time. Time to produce submittals went from 1-2 weeks down to a couple of days. Then, once approved, normally to produce the fabrication drawings (70+ unique parts) it would take from 4-6 weeks. We can get it down to as little as a few days.

We have gotten to a point where our main constraint is how quickly we can extract the information from the customer specification and put it into the configurator. The modeling end is so fast; it is no longer a factor.
I also feel that it normalizes the training between different skilled individuals. With the design intent captured within Tacton Design Automation, the user is then held within those parameters letting Tacton Design Automation do most of the legwork. The user can then focus on doing custom work.

The interface for programming and running Tacton Design Automation is directly integrated into SOLIDWORKS. Residing in SOLIDWORKS it makes it very quick and simple to program and test your configurator models.
Creating the end GUI is streamlined. No time is wasted creating, sizing, aligning fields and other data entry interfaces. Tacton Design Automation compiles all types of fields into a uniform interface for the end user.
Another great advantage Tacton Design Automation has is its error handling/trapping capabilities. Because Tacton’s solver is a true configurator, constraints set forth in the program will be automatically checked against other constraints and ranges to ensure all choices set by the user are within parameters. If the user chooses something outside the parameter, Tacton Design Automation will automatically present options to change other previously set choices to resolve those conflicts.
Layout mode within Tacton Design Automation allows you to assemble many Tacton ready parts together within SOLIDWORKS and from there they will share common data between each other. This provides a way to be modular. To create and use models right away and add to as more models become available. You can pick the low hanging fruit first and go from there, not necessarily needing to encompass all parts at once.

Layout mode is probably the most lacking aspect of the software (within Tacon Design Automation Engineer). Something so powerful as having modular parts should be more heavily supported. Although, I've heard Tacton is focusing on updating this with better functionality.
The constraint editor does not display complex/lengthy constraints very well. I end up using Excel to visually break out in cells the different aspects of the constraint.

Time to produce submittals went from 1-2 weeks down to a couple of days. Then, once approved, normally to produce the fabrication drawings (70+ unique parts) it would take from 4-6 weeks. We can get it down to as little as a few days.

At ClearStream Tacton is an important part of our product design process. We design clarifiers for water treatment. Every clarifier we sell has similar parts that look the same, but are different in size. I think of using Tacton a bit like configuring a computer on the Dell website, where you can choose the different components you want, and the software helps you pick parts that work together. Once the user chooses the options they want, Tacton can be used in different ways. As a sales configurator Tacton can perform complicated pricing and produce quotes for customers. We use the Tacton SolidWorks addin called TactonWorks to produce 3D CAD models in SolidWorks reducing weeks of work to around an hour. TactonWorks also creates all the drawings we need to fabricate our product.

Tacton has a non-linear solver, meaning it can solve lots of equations without them being is a particular order. This enables the software to be incredibly flexible.
Tacton has a great interface to set up configurators for people to use. No knowledge of programming languages is required. The configurator uses equations similar to Excel equations to control what the users options are.
Tacton has the ability to easily add lists of data like product lists, beam or pipe sizes that because available for user selections or for calculations.
The Tacton configurator also automatically builds the user interface as you set up user inputs making it much easier to set up then competitor software.

Setting up a Tacton configuration can get very complicated, I usually end up with several pages in a binder or notebook of notes to track how a particular product was set up.
The fact that I need to reference several pages of notes to keep track of what I am doing or especially to tell what I did several weeks later, makes me think that maybe Tacton could come up with a way to better organize things or show the user an overview of what they are building so they don't get lost in it.

The payback period is fast on the software investment but is slower to cover the investment in labor to set up product configurations. Depending on how complicated your products are
We look at payback period of our products and including learning the system and everything over the first year we average a .8 year payback on software and labor combined. Although some were much better around .3 years while some parts that were more complicated and done first with a steep learning curve were as much as a 4 year payback.
One of the down sides of automating your business like this is that the software can only help you save time and money if you sell the products that have been configured in the system, so if you sell less of the products you set up than planned it can be a big waste.

Tacton Design Automation

Overview

What is Tacton Design Automation?