Design Automation

Automate your engineering. Eliminate the grind and start building smarter.

Unleash faster design cycles, cleaner data, and a team focused on engineering decisions, not model and drawings housekeeping.

01 Why automation
02 How it looks
03 Levels of maturity
04 Automation examples
05 Why KETIV
06 Learn Inventor automation

Why automation matters

Most engineering teams are drowning in repetitive tasks. Rebuilding the same variants. Recreating drawings. Copying BOMs. Chasing properties. Fixing preventable errors.

As product lines grow and customization becomes the norm, manual engineering can’t keep up. Automation gives sales, engineering, and production a shared, reliable way to deliver accurate designs faster, and without adding headcount.

Automation unlocks efficiency and accuracy in product design

Automation isn’t about speeding up one designer. It’s about improving the entire flow of your operation. When you automate the repetitive work, everything else gets better.

Shorter engineering response cycles and fewer bottlenecks
Fewer ECOs and rework loops thanks to rule-driven consistency
More accurate BOMs and drawings produced on-demand
A single source of truth across CAD, PDM, ERP, and other key systems
Happier customers because you deliver faster, cleaner, and with tighter accuracy
Quick quote turnaround so Sales isn’t waiting on Engineering, and more deals can close faster

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“I was shocked when I realized what the team was going through… Something that seems really programmable and could be automated just wasn’t.”

Keenan Carter
Product Engineer at Oldcastle Infrastructure

How automation transforms design

Modeling automation

Your engineers shouldn’t be rebuilding variations from scratch. Automation drives Autodesk Inventor models from rules, parameters, and governed design logic. Complex assemblies adapt instantly, giving your team a reliable way to produce consistent, accurate designs at any level of complexity across your product line.

BOMs: Accurate and Automated 

Every project needs a BOM that reflects the exact configuration being built. Automation ensures quantities, materials, part numbers, and metadata update the moment the model changes. No manual edits. No version drift. Just production-ready data.

Instant, Standards-Driven Drawings

Drawing generation becomes a push-button step. Views, dimensions, annotations, and title block properties follow your standards automatically. Engineers spend their time reviewing—not fixing formatting or hunting for missing callouts.

Integration With Upstream and Downstream Systems

 Whether the request starts in CPQ, ERP, or PLM, automation gives engineering a clean, structured input they can trust. Inventor generates the right models and outputs the right data, while integrations push compliant BOMs and drawings back to the systems that need them.

Automation maturity:

Where is your team?

Level 1

Engineering & design task automation

Macros
iLogic rules
Templates
Snippet-driven code

Level 2

Rule-driven product automation

Parameter logic
Geometry rules
Automated drawings
Automated BOM behavior

Level 3

Connected systems + data

Sales config drives engineering data
Visuals
Accurate BOMs

Level 4

Full digital thread automationCAD → Vault → CPQ → ERP → Production tied together through DataBridge and integrated workflows

Tier 1 | Task Automation

Simple, high-frequency actions get automated first. Think iLogic rules, templates, parameter updates, property checks, and one-click drawing standards. These are the fast wins that free hours every week and build trust in automation.

Tier 2 | Workflow Automation

Your models, drawings, and BOMs start generating from shared rules instead of manual effort. Assemblies adapt automatically, metadata stays aligned, and repeatable products no longer require repeatable work. Engineering throughput climbs without adding headcount.

Tier 3 | Enterprise Automation

Your tools start talking to each other. Inventor integrates cleanly with Vault, Fusion Manage, CPQ, and ERP. Configuration data flows into CAD. CAD outputs flow into production systems. Change management, revisioning, and compliance checks all run automatically.

Tier 4 | System-Level Automation

This is where teams operate as a true digital thread. Product logic is fully governed, reusable, and accessible across the business. Engineering becomes a fast, reliable engine that powers quoting, planning, and production with accurate data on demand.

Examples of automation success

“The solutions that we’re developing with KETIV are very cool. It’s something that the space we’re working in hasn’t seen before…it’s a differentiator.”

Eric Andres
Head of Commercial Engineering & Design at Nucor Warehouse Systems

“We have a unique competitive advantage in our specific marketplace with this solution….we’re the only ones in this space, doing it this way.”

Alex Paradiang
Director of Global Solutions at TOMRA Food

“When we first started using (Autodesk) software, KETIV was so vital, because we were still learning. And when we got in a real pinch, we dialed the support number that we had and were given the help we needed.”

Ben Loff
Engineering Manager at Can Lines Engineering

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Design automation only works when it reflects how engineers actually design. KETIV builds automation inside the Autodesk tools your team already uses Inventor, Vault, Fusion, and Fusion Manage so it feels natural, not forced.

We don’t drop generic scripts and walk away. We work with your engineers to capture real design intent, standards, and product logic, then turn that knowledge into scalable systems your team can trust. The result is automation that survives product changes, staff turnover, and growth.

With decades of experience supporting complex manufacturing environments, KETIV knows how to connect CAD automation to BOMs, drawings, data management, and downstream systems without distrupting the engineering workflow.

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