CAD Data Challenge
CAD Data ChallengeTitan Steel Door set out to grow — but their CAD process was holding them back. By the end of Q3 2024 the company had transformed how it designs, manages, and shares engineering data. Titan's wishlist included: fewer shop-floor mistakes, dramatically faster delivery of accurate drawings, and a scalable engineering operation ready for rapid growth. Titan needed a simple, disciplined road map and Converge’s engineering-first execution.
The problem: great products, fragile processes
When Converge met Titan in Murrayville, Georgia, the shop floor told the story: doors and frames didn’t always fit together, production was reworking orders, and engineers were spending hours rebuilding designs from old files. The core issues were painfully familiar:
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No PDM or CAD standards. Engineers duplicated files, created dozens of uncontrolled variants, and had no single source of truth.
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Manual, brittle workflows. Valuable time was lost hunting for the “right” file, or reverse engineering past jobs.
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No engineering IT support. Titan had no CAD administrator and chose not to maintain on-prem engineering servers.
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Poor distribution to the floor. Drawings were printed, passed around, annotated, and misread — a full-time drag on quality.
This mix of people, process, and technology gaps meant Titan could not scale without taking on unacceptable risk.
The outcome: measurable, repeatable gains
The transformation is dramatic and tangible:
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Faster, more accurate design: Tasks that used to take hours now take minutes. Engineers produce consistent, aligned drawings and models every time.
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One record of truth: PDM Professional eliminated duplicate files and version confusion; every design has a single, auditable source.
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Scalable onboarding: The ESPR and repeatable workflows let Titan add engineers rapidly without re-teaching tribal knowledge.
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Higher shop-floor productivity: Real-time, digital drawings reduce mistakes and speed throughput.
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No IT drag: Hosting the PDM vault in EpiGrid removed server maintenance and freed Titan’s team to focus on product, not infrastructure.
Most importantly, the change is not brittle — it’s repeatable. Thousands of legacy “products” collapsed into four configurable families, enabling Titan to scale without multiplying complexity.
Why Converge’s expertise mattered
Any vendor can sell tools. Converge delivered outcomes by combining deep SOLIDWORKS and PDM expertise with pragmatic engineering empathy:
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We discovered the real problem (not just the symptoms) and designed a minimal, high-impact solution.
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We built the master models and the PDM vault so the transition was immediate and risk-free.
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We trained and documented the new workflows so the benefits stick and scale.
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We operate the environment through MCAS and EpiGrid hosting — removing the need for Titan to add specialized IT staff.
That mix of domain knowledge, process discipline, and managed services is why Titan’s transformation didn’t stall after implementation — it accelerated.
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