3D CAD Viewer and MyWorkPLAN deliver real benefits

The Derby-based company produces patterns and tooling used in the production of composite panels for Formula 1, aerospace and defence applications. Stephen Ollier, managing director of Pentaxia, says: "Motorsport is an extremely fast moving environment with rapid design changes, so our ability to interpret designs, check material prices, and estimate machining times quickly enables us to offer competitive prices, ensure the job is profitable for us, and win more business." The WorkXPlore 3D CAD viewer enables the company to read in and interrogate designs from a wide range of CAD software. By adding MyWorkPLAN job shop software, Pentaxia was able to link the design interrogation into the quotation preparation process. Once a job becomes an order, the WorkXPlore 3D and MyWorkPLAN quotation information forms the basis of the job documentation. More detail is then added for production, and as manufacture progresses further information is added, for example: job sheets with detailed operations; design revisions; inspection reports; invoices and delivery notes. Mr Ollier continued: "We are ISO 9000 approved and we want to gain aerospace quality approvals. The way in which MyWorkPLAN groups all the documentation for each project in one place is brilliant. It will help us to meet our quality targets, and it enables us to respond straight away to any questions asked by our customers or suppliers. "The software is the backbone of our document and job management, is straightforward for anyone to use, and is a common tool for everybody at Pentaxia."