Success Story
Warren Services is a Norfolk-based family-run engineering and manufacturing business, employing 115 people across two sites. Its capabilities extend from dynamic head water jet® cutting; EDM wire eroding and laser profiling to computer numerical control (CNC) milling and turning, through fabrication and finishing and electrical assembly and testing. Warren Services is proud of its record of providing high-quality manufacturing of components and mechanical/electrical sub-assemblies to agreed schedules, offering turnkey solutions in engineering and design. Autodesk software has long played a key role in its processes and workflows. The company initially took the decision to self-learn and implement the technology itself, using its own internal resource but, over time, ongoing engagement with Autodesk Solution Provider, Cadline, has paid dividends in ensuring Warren Services gains optimum value from its investment.
Warren Services’ Chairman, Will Bridgman decided to work with Cadline, following a recommendation from a business contact. He was impressed by the expertise the company had in Autodesk software and to understand the industry challenges his company was facing. Cadline hosted an interactive discovery session to capture existing challenges and priorities within the business. This process revealed that Warren Services needed to improve the management of its engineering data and to revision and version control project files as well as improve remote access to data. It also identified a need to reduce the time taken to deliver projects, better manage data release, improve collaboration and digitise processes. Cadline implemented a training programme, together with a professional services package to ensure the robust delivery of Autodesk Vault, Cadline’s AutoConnect tool and Fusion 360 Manage, that solved Warren Service challenges and was adopted by the mechanical and electrical teams.
Warren Services uses Autodesk Inventor for general design and analysis for the manufacturing side of the business. They also use AutoCAD Electrical for designing electrical systems for machines. They use Autodesk Vault Professional to manage project data, and Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage to digitise engineering processes. Teams on the shop floor extract data from models in Fusion and use it for their CAM programming. All the data from Inventor is managed through Vault, which is hosted in the cloud by Cadline. That’s in line with Warren Services’ push to move to a more flexible way of working, in which compute power is in the cloud and people can work from anywhere. The collaboration that Warren Services has already achieved in the cloud has been key to its ongoing success, with the use of Autodesk Vault, in particular, providing the collaborative engagements and streamlined workflows that are especially key to project efficiency, with key stakeholders working from home.
Warren Services was quick to buy into the vision that Autodesk Fusion supported. Bridgman said: “I believe in Autodesk’s approach to building a common user interface for the whole Fusion side of the business. Autodesk is adding functionality to it all the time. You can see how Fusion is going to develop and that is a story I really like.” Bridgman also pays tribute to Cadline’s role. “We were delighted with the technical experience and expertise that Cadline brought to the table and the training and support they have delivered,” he added. “We wish we had done this sooner because we could have been up and running in weeks and months rather than years.” In addition to embedding the existing software even more into the business, Warren Services has made further investments in Fusion 360 to drive CNC machine strategies and outputs with its milling team, with Cadline instrumental in validating the workflows and digitising them from design to CNC right through to production.
Warren Services is now looking to start using Fusion on CNC turning in addition to CNC milling processes. Cadline is putting in place training for Warren Services’ turning team. It also plans to ask Cadline to run training for managers in how they can use Fusion to efficiently develop fixtures in their own areas without burdening the design office. It is also now looking to enhance integration and ensure that Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical and Autodesk Vault work seamlessly together to make the whole process even more streamlined. Moving forwards, Cadline sees its role as being an advisory partner, developing a best-in-class process and workflow for Warren Services to the point where it can create a digital end-to-end story, based on standard Autodesk tools out-of-the-box, precisely configured to its environment. And with Cadline by its side, the manufacturing business is already reaping the rewards.
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