A practical guide for mechanical and electrical engineers, programmers, and maintenance teams
Smarter machine development
from concept to continuous performance
Reduce errors, accelerate timelines, and shorten time‑to‑market, without managing multiple tools or being tied to a single vendor.
Why this guide is essential:
- Gives you a clear, connected engineering approach that reduces redesigns, accelerates each project phase, and helps you deliver machines that work right the first time.
- Shows how to streamline your concept, design, build, commissioning, and operation using one continuous data flow so teams stay aligned and errors don’t creep in.
- Provides practical, ready‑to‑apply steps and tools to cut engineering time, prevent integration issues, and improve long‑term machine performance with minimal effort.
This guide gives you
Immediate access to free, web‑based engineering tools
Remove guesswork, save time searching, and avoid unnecessary cross-platform switching by using our engineering tools designed for every stage of your project.
Already looking at components?
Simplify your engineering process when searching for a servo drive, stepper motor, or motion control solution. The right tools enable efficient selection, sizing, and configuration of components, maintain consistent data, and reduce manual effort across your workflow.
A business case for seamless team collaboration
Discover how shared projects, unified datasets, and cloud-based workspaces make handovers effortless, reduce rework, and keep teams aligned from start to finish.
Download this guide to eliminate engineering friction and build better machines, faster
This guide shows you how to speed up every phase of your machine development with one connected, web‑based engineering approach. Meaning fewer revisions, faster alignment, and designs that work the first time to streamline every handover.
The advantages you’ll unlock instantly
Your interactive guide to every stage
Move through each stage of the engineering journey and click directly to the relevant tools, resources, and information - all in one convenient place.
Get results without needing specialist tool or product expertise
Achieve expert-level accuracy without needing deep product knowledge. Our easy-to-use tools let you automatically generate CAD files, complete BOMs, and ready-to-use commissioning files.
Smarter, more reliable machines
Learn how digital twins, diagnostics, and AI-driven maintenance can reduce downtime, extend machine life, and improve performance.
Who should download?
Automation/Control engineers who think at the system level and face increasing pressure to deliver more with less, who need to bridge the gap between OT and IT, and who manage the demands of increasingly complex system architectures.
Application and Electrical engineers who face rising demands for high levels of customisation, struggle with integration challenges, work across fragmented tools and data sources, and must bridge growing customer skills gaps.
Software engineers and PLC programmers who are navigating growing software complexity, who aim to increase code reuse and modularisation, who battle the challenges of debugging and simulation, and who must address escalating needs around cybersecurity and remote access.
