Softline helped Hermes Group implement ZWCAD to design water supply and sanitation systems

2023: Transition to ZWCAD

Softline Group of companies (PJSC "Softline") helped the manufacturer of equipment for water supply and sanitation systems "Hermes Group" to migrate from AutoCAD to ZWCAD. The customer received the design solution without stopping the business processes of the company. Softline announced this on December 27, 2023.

In December 2023, Hermes Group employs more than 300 production personnel at three production sites equipped with lines with high-performance equipment. Engineers of the design and technical department create drawings of individual parts of the project, offer innovative solutions that take into account all the features, and also conduct an audit, interacting with the leading design institutes of the country. For quick and high-quality work, specialists need to use the latest software.

After the termination of support, and licenses Autodesk SolidWorks other foreign products, the task arose to switch to modern design tools with the availability of technical support and updates that would correspond to the company's tasks. To solve this problem, Softline specialists conducted consultations and in-depth technical analysis of the available in, RUSSIAN FEDERATION software and also provided in. testing a number of software products As a result, the choice was settled on the developer who ZWSoft closed the engineering tasks of the customer's specialists as much as possible.

After a detailed analysis of the needs and tasks of Hermes Group, Softline specialists launched the process of switching to ZWSoft solutions, in particular to ZWCAD, providing advice on the manufacturer's product line. Due to the gradual transition and similarity of the tools with Autodesk AutoCAD, ZWCAD was migrated without reducing the performance of designers or otherwise affecting the company's workflows.

I want to note the high stability of ZWCAD. For the entire time of its use, it never flew out with critical errors, which was unattainable for the solutions that we used before. Also pleased with the good speed of work, fast loading, installation and opening of files. Separately, I can highlight a convenient interface. In addition, the installation, stable operation and administration of ZWCAD turned out to be better than the products that we used before, - said Victoria Andreeva, process engineer at Hermes Group.

Even at the very beginning of the departure of foreign CAD manufacturers from the Russian market, Softline specialists actively monitored available products to offer customers solutions that make it possible to find a replacement for the previous software as painlessly and quickly as possible. One of the vendors that provided Russia with their developments was the Chinese company ZWSoft, which has been operating in the CAD market for more than 25 years. With the help of ZWCAD, Hermes Group ensured a qualitative continuation of its own production cycles, moreover, it was able to optimize and speed them up. For December 2023, another ZWSoft product is being tested - ZW3D. As a result, verticalization and a possible transition to this solution are planned, - said Irina Komarkova, business development manager of the CAD group at Softline.