Design Automation Solutions

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.

“There’s never a bad time to improve our capabilities to keep up with our customer demand.”

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

  • 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

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.

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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.

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.”

“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.”

Can Lines Engineering

“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.”

Get started with engineering automation using Autodesk Inventor and iLogic

Autodesk Inventor Add-In Development Kit for Visual Studio
Autodesk Inventor Drawing Automation Basics
How to Reclaim Engineering Time Through CAD Automation
AutoCAD to Autodesk Inventor 101: Unlock the Full Course