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- What you're missing without MRP (and why it matters now)
- Designing with intelligence: AI in the SOLIDWORKS era
- Bridging Design & Manufacturing: CAD Meets DriveWorks
- Seamless integration: Getting the best from CAD & PDM
- Streamlining high-frequency EM analysis with CST
- Maximizing design to production efficiency: Best practices in CAD, PDM & BOM management.
- Design the future – Master antenna simulation with CST studio
- Insights to SolidWorks Electrical design tools
- Cybersecurity strategies for sme manufacturers
- Think differently: Decision intelligence for your customers
- AI integrations to business operations
- Advanced technologies & engineering judgement
- Configuration management challenges
- SolidWorks & PDM work from home ready
- Changing the orientation of a DXF flat pattern
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Staff picks
- Endeavour Award Finalist

- Central Innovation Recognised at Dassault SOLIDWORKS AP South CRE Partner Awards 2026

- What you're missing without MRP (and why it matters now)
- Central Innovation Celebrates Major Recognition at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2026
- Designing with intelligence: AI in the SOLIDWORKS era
- Bridging Design & Manufacturing: CAD Meets DriveWorks
- Six Reasons Production Feels Harder Than It Should in SMEs
- MRP Readiness Assessment
Case studies
- “It’s a No-Brainer”: How Cove Engineering Uses #Task to Eliminate CAD Bottlenecks and Accelerate Delivery

- Discover how Tieman Tankers Saved Hundreds of Production Hours with SOLIDWORKS PDM and Ci’s Support

Tieman Tankers—an Australian manufacturer with 70+ years of tanker design and production behind it—reduced production drag and reclaimed hundreds of hours by implementing SOLIDWORKS PDM with support from Central Innovation, bringing stronger control and consistency to the way engineering data moves through the business.
- Powering smarter, leaner manufacturing

Central Innovation, now operating as a full-service software provider, has unveiled its Data Solutions Business Unit and MaXXlink – a new CAD/ERP/PLM/MRP Integrator and BOM automation tool.
- From design to delivery: How Max Door Solutions transformed custom manufacturing with MYOB Acumatica and DriveWorks.
- Streamlining fabrication design with automation
- MATRIX Composites & Engineering
- Goldacres Engineering enhances engineering efficiency & data management with SolidWorks PDM
- Seed terminator grows from startup to production with 3DExperience Works
- ZETR shortens development timelines by over 30 percent with SolidWorks & 3DExperience Works
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- SolidWorks Design with Cloud Services
- MaXXflow AI-enabled MRP
- MaXXlink BOM Management
- #TASK Batch Processing
- SolidWorks Simulation
- SolidWorks Electrical
- SolidWorks Visualize
- SolidWorks Composer
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