Your engineers shouldn't be designing... the same thing ...over and over again.

Balanced Design Solutions helps small and mid-size manufacturers automate repetitive engineering work — so custom orders quote in minutes, drawings generate themselves, and your best people get their time back.

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What we do

Three ways we take repetitive work off your engineering team

Design automation

Turn your custom-order process into a configurator. Sales enters the specs; models, drawings, and BOMs generate themselves — correctly, every time.

DriveWorks Pro · SOLIDWORKS

Process improvement

Find the bottlenecks between quote and shop floor, then build the integrations and internal tools that remove them for good.

Workflow tools · Integrations

New product development

Design new products with automation in mind from day one — so the tenth variation costs a fraction of the first.

SOLIDWORKS · Design for automation
Real work

Two weeks to two minutes

Real projects for real manufacturers — told plainly, because the results don't need dressing up.

Dehumidifier manufacturer — the problem

Their sales drawing was the heart of every proposal: a pre-engineered package that took two weeks to produce, for products ranging from dishwasher-size to tractor-trailer-size. Two automation contractors had already tried and failed — months of development cost, nothing working.

What changed

BDS rebuilt the project and delivered. Phase one automated their eight most-quoted configurations: two weeks became five minutes. Phase two expanded to 83 base configurations — trillions of possible combinations — with a redesigned interface and a new architecture that cut it to two minutes.

Horse stall manufacturer — the problem

They were about to hire a full-time CAD designer. Two SOLIDWORKS licenses, two owners with limited modeling skills, and every custom stall order waiting on design work.

What changed

We started small: one stall door, billed hourly. It quickly became clear the answer wasn't more CAD hours — it was a configurator. Today every stall product line, plus several others, configures itself. They never made that hire.

Ongoing support

All the DriveWorks help you need. No full-time hire required.

Finding — and affording — a full-time DriveWorks developer is out of reach for most small manufacturers. A simple monthly arrangement with BDS covers what you actually need: your configurators stay current, small changes never wait for a quote, and development hours are there when you want to grow.

How we work

Small projects first. Trust before scope.

1 — Find the repeat work

A short working session to map where your team designs the same thing twice. You'll know the opportunity before you commit to anything.

2 — Prove it small

We automate one product line or one workflow first. Real results in weeks, not a year-long platform project.

3 — Grow what works

Every project is built to extend — more products, more rules, more of your process, at your pace.

Sound like your shop?

If your engineers are re-drawing custom orders, there's a faster way. A 30-minute conversation is enough to know whether automation fits.

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