How Weiland Doors Automates Custom SOLIDWORKS Models, Drawings, and BOMs in Minutes  

Ensuring Design Consistency and Reducing Errors with DriveWorks

Manufacturers that build highly customized products face a familiar challenge. As demand grows, engineering teams are asked to deliver more variations, faster, without sacrificing accuracy or compliance. For companies producing doors and windows for regulated environments, even small design inconsistencies can create costly delays. 

Weiland Doors, a Nebraska-based manufacturer of high-performance industrial doors and windows, found themselves at this exact inflection point. By implementing DriveWorks design automation, they transformed how custom products are engineered, documented, and delivered. 

The Challenge: Customization at Scale Without Compromise 

Weiland Doors specializes in doors and windows designed for demanding environments such as food processing, cold storage, and pharmaceutical facilities. Their products must meet strict industry requirements, and nearly every order includes custom specifications. 

As demand for customized solutions increased, manual design workflows became a bottleneck. Engineers were spending significant time creating and checking SOLIDWORKS models, shop drawings, and bills of materials for each order. Maintaining design consistency while meeting delivery expectations was becoming increasingly difficult. 

Weiland needed a way to streamline the design process, reduce errors, and ensure every configuration met internal standards and regulatory requirements without slowing down their team. 

The Solution: Automating Design with DriveWorks 

Weiland Doors turned to DriveWorks to automate their design and documentation process. 

Using DriveWorks technology, they built a custom configurator that automatically generates SOLIDWORKS models, shop drawings, and BOMs for doors, windows, and frames in minutes. Engineers access the configurator through a web browser using individual logins, making it available on any device. 

Instead of manually creating designs, engineers enter required specifications into the configurator and select approved standard and custom options. DriveWorks rules ensure only valid configurations are allowed, eliminating guesswork and preventing errors before they reach production. 

The result is a consistent, repeatable design process that scales with demand. 

Measurable Results for Engineering and Production 

With DriveWorks in place, Weiland Doors has significantly reduced the time required to create accurate designs. Automated generation of models, drawings, and BOMs has shortened lead times for customers and removed manual drafting from the critical path. 

Production teams benefit from automatically generated shop drawings that maintain high quality standards and reduce rework. Engineering teams now spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time focused on innovation and product improvement. 

According to Weiland Doors, DriveWorks has drastically reduced the time required to create accurate drawings while improving their overall workflow. 

Built for Growth 

Beyond design automation, Weiland Doors is already looking ahead. Their next step is expanding their DriveWorks implementation to automatically generate sales quotes, further connecting engineering automation with business processes. 

By standardizing design logic and removing manual steps, Weiland has created a foundation that supports efficient growth without adding complexity. 

Why This Matters for Manufacturers 

Weiland Doors’ experience highlights a common reality across manufacturing. As customization increases, manual workflows become a liability. DriveWorks allows manufacturers to automate complexity, enforce standards, and deliver custom products faster without increasing risk. 

For manufacturers using SOLIDWORKS who want to improve consistency, reduce errors, and scale efficiently, DriveWorks design automation offers a proven path forward. 

If you’re exploring how design automation can improve your workflows, the team at GSC can help evaluate where DriveWorks fits into your engineering and production processes.