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16 February 2009
Product News
KKM SOFT Releases iConfigure – Product Configurator for Autodesk Inventor Professional 2009
KKM SOFT Pvt. Ltd., one of India’s leading Mechanical Design Solutions companies and partner to Autodesk has announced the release of iConfigure, product configurator engine for Autodesk Inventor Professional 2009.
“KKM SOFT ‘s iConfigure in its current version will be an engine that can be customized with a GUI developed using Microsoft .NET technology to configure and create robust part configurations, assembly configurations as well as drawings on industry’s leading Digital Prototyping Platform Autodesk Inventor Professional” says Mr. Ramasamy, Director of KKM SOFT.
He adds “As a Mechanical Design Solutions and ETO (Engineering to Order) Company, we felt that there was a need for an external rules based configurator that can automate 70% of the standard designs that exist in the product design portfolio of any mass customization manufacturing company. To cut short our Inventor customization time, we created a set of tools and libraries, which could speed up our ETO customization process, this later transformed into a fully developed configurator engine”.
Today KKM SOFT executes all its customization on Autodesk Inventor Professional and other Autodesk products using the iConfigure engine to bring down the development time by 50%. Projects customized with iConfigure have capabilities to reduce design and detailing time of mass customized products by up to 90% through custom UI and rules based design automation.
About iConfigure
KKMSoft has created a Product configuration engine called iConfigure ® to execute its strategy to help customers innovate and deliver projects more efficiently and rapidly. KKM SOFT‘s Configurator employs an open ended, customizable and scalable methodology that allows modifications or expansions existing product development systems or workflows.
iConfigure works in conjunction with Autodesk Inventor and various other Microsoft office products to produce seamless interface to all your drawing needs.
iConfigure features include:
• Externally configurable Assembly sequence
• Assembly parts compatibility list
• Fully automatic rules and script based assemblies
• Also supports interactive assemblies and allows saving configured assembly script or rules instead of assembly files.
• Rules can be defined as an Access database that will be queried by the engine.
• Configurator API and external GUI compatibility for other developers in future versions.
"iConfigure has revolutionized the drawing creation process through simple user friendly input screens. In the process we could not only de-skill the drafting job and get error free output, but also phenomenal reduction in time" says R.B.SATISH KUMAR, President at Flowserve Sanmar Limited. “In times when there is more competition, choice and a feeble economy; design innovation is the only way to get ahead”, he also added.
About KKMSoft
KKM SOFT as a Mechanical Design Solutions and a value added reseller to Autodesk in India is involved in providing digital prototyping solutions for the past 11 years on the Autodesk Inventor Professional platform. KKM SOFT, with its team of software developers and an Authorized Developer under ADN, has been creating custom built ETO solutions and design automation tools that have reduced design cycle and sales quoting time by almost 90% in all the customization projects it has ventured into.
KKM SOFT’s accumulated domain expertise serves over 2000 customers; and goes about its solution offering in a user-centric 360 degree way by providing training, implementation, support and software development.
“Though most of our deliverables with iConfigure is a framework of processes and services based on customer input and feedback, we can quickly transform to add to current and Autodesk’s future ETO initiatives like Intent and iLogic. We will continue to closely look at Autodesk’s strategy in providing Digital Prototyping and Sustainability solutions to our shared customers; and adhere to VAR and Autodesk customer acquisition and service objectives”, says Kirubakaran, the Chief Architect of KKM’s Solution.
KKM SOFT is now reaching out to working with Autodesk customers and resellers worldwide. “We are looking at partnering with Autodesk Manufacturing VARs to implement customized design solutions using its iConfigure engine on Autodesk Inventor Professional and AutoCAD that has the potential to phenomenally reduce design and drafting time by up to 90%”, says Ramasamy
More information can be found at http://www.kkmsoftcom and http://www.kkmsoft.com/sts.htm
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