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CADTALK ERP 

Overview

Go from engineering to manufacturing 5x faster!

Here’s the problem!  

You are a manufacturing company, and you do lots of engineering work.  You create new and update existing items, bills of material (BOMs), and routings.    You are doing this work today manually or, at best, you have a multi-step workflow that requires a spreadsheet, macros, and an import or copy and paste routine. Or worse, you tried another integration that didn't live up to the hype!

 That process costs you up to $100,000 per year in data entry, BOM errors, rework expenses, and demoralizing your staff who would rather spend time designing and manufacturing than entering data.    When a $1.00 Bill of Material mistake can cost up to 100X more if it gets to the customer and when engineering services are billed at $130 per hour, it does not take long to see that the current process won’t work anymore.

It’s time to get your engineering and manufacturing talking.... with CADTALK ERP!


HOW IT WORKS

CADTALK ERP is a completely off-the-shelf, intelligent, bi-directional integration between your CAD, PDM, or PLM and QAD Adaptive Manufacturing.   CADTALK ERP reads data from any CAD, PDM, or PLM application transforming the engineering bill of materials (eBOM) into manufacturing bills of material (MBOM).   

  As a QAD Technology Partner, CADTALK ERP supports many areas in QAD Adaptive including Item Masters, product structures, and routings and much more.   The integration creates new and updates existing QAD Item Masters, Product Structures and Routings, while identifying and tracking all changes and revisions between engineering and manufacturing.  All of this in an easy to use, intuitive interface without ever logging into QAD Adaptive screens. 

CADTALK ERP is so much more than an import and mapping utility.  The CADTALK framework offers standardized, in-depth integrations coupled with expression-based, low-code, configurable intelligence that gives you the power to integrate your systems in hours and days rather than months and years.   CADTALK ERP focuses on the entire engineering to manufacturing hand-off by supporting every aspect of the bill of material from item masters, product structures, and routings, to labor calculations, scrap percentages, vendors, manufacturers and more. 

Bundled with CADTALK DFM, you will eliminate manual data entry, reduce errors, and get more value out of your Acumatica with accurate and consistent data transformation

BENEFITS

  • Get to the Market 5x faster   
  • Always current with CAD/PDM/PLM and QAD
  • Reduce lead time by as much as 80%
  • Minimize BOM mistakes that waste money and cripple productivity 
  • Spend more time on value added work
  • Eliminate manual and duplicate data entry
  • Eliminate manual data entry, and saves hundreds of hours per year
CADTALK Saves over 70K per year

FEATURES

  • Industry leading configurable intelligence engine to automate tedious work
  • Color coded change tracking
  • Advanced expression based bi-directional field level mappings
  • Choice of CAD hosted or standalone hosted application.
  • Drag and drop BOM capabilities for easy BOM restructuring
  • Powerful and Intuitive BOM and routing editor
  • Custom Field Support
  • Intelligence based routing
  • Automatically include/exclude CAD components
  • ERP Validation: Ensure data integrity and accuracy

SCREENSHOTS

CADTALKInterfaceLoadingNewAndExistingItems
CompleteBOMEditorToModifyBOMBeforeSavingInQAD
CADTALKQADLoginInterface
CADTALKLoadingNewItemsAndBomsInQAD
CADTALKSupportItemMasterProductStructureRoutingsInQAD
CADTALKInterfaceLoadingNewAndExistingItems CompleteBOMEditorToModifyBOMBeforeSavingInQAD CADTALKQADLoginInterface CADTALKLoadingNewItemsAndBomsInQAD CADTALKSupportItemMasterProductStructureRoutingsInQAD

FAQ

Here are some of the most frequently asked questions.

For more information about CADTALK, or if you need support, please visit the support center.

How does CADTALK ERP handle revisions in QAD Adaptive Manufacturing?
CADTALK compares revisions in CAD/PDM/PLM with QAD revision field and merges the necessary changes.
How does CADTALK integrate with QAD Adaptive Manufacturing?
CADTALK uses all API calls defined in QExtend.
Can CADTALK ERP add parts to the QAD Product Structure that are not in the CAD/PDM/PLM system?
Yes, users can use the CADTALK intelligence engine and the interface to search QAD and add non-CAD parts to the bill of material.
Does CADTALK require a CAD license?
No, CADTALK can read most CAD files without a CAD license.
Who uses CADTALK ERP?
Anyone who manages Item Master, Product Structures, and routings in QAD Adaptive Manufacturing can use CADTALK ERP.

DEMO VIDEO

CADTALK supports major Engineering systems and more

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