Tailored product design system
Client Overview
5 Star Cases Limited designs and manufactures high-quality custom flight cases and other protective packaging for a wide range of industries and applications. We provide bespoke protective solutions for customers requiring durable, professional, and precision-built transport and storage cases, crates, cnc foam inserts, bags and covers.
Business Challenge
"Before implementing the bespoke system, much of our quoting and design work relied on separate 2D CAD drawings and Excel spreadsheets. This created duplication of effort, increased the risk of errors, and made the quoting process slower and less consistent. We needed a solution that could streamline the entire workflow, improve accuracy, standardise outputs, and reduce the amount of manual work involved in producing quotes, drawings, and production documentation."
Objectives
Reduce the time required to produce customer quotations
Improve accuracy and consistency across quotes and production information
Replace manual Excel worksheets and standalone 2D CAD work
Create a more professional and consistent presentation for customer-facing quotes
Automatically generate supporting documentation such as bills of materials, worksheets, job sheets, and drawings
Enable the quoting team to work more efficiently using templates for different case types
Solution Provided
Cadlogic developed a complex CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) tool specifically for 5 Star's own bespoke flight case suite. The software supports multiple interconnected functions: including 2D design, 3D visualisation, quotation generation, bills of materials, worksheets, production job sheets, and customer-facing documents all from a single, high-quality design interface. This allows users to focus on the configuration of product features with the software taking care of the rest. "The most impactful features of the software have been the ability to create both 2D and 3D case designs, use pre-built templates for different flight case types, and automatically generate all associated documentation from a single system. The software allows our team to produce professional customer quotes, detailed drawings, bills of materials, worksheets, and production job sheets more quickly than before. It has effectively replaced the need for separate CAD and Excel processes, while also improving consistency and reducing errors."
Impact
Increase in profitability
Increased first-time-right rate and reduced design mistakes
Reduce in wasted materials and time sinks
"We can do more for less"
Future Outlook
"As our business continues to grow, we see the software evolving further to provide even greater automation, more advanced reporting, and additional integration between quoting, production, and customer communication processes. We believe it will continue to play a key role in improving efficiency and supporting future growth."
"Cadlogic has developed a system that has become central to the way we work. It has saved us a significant amount of time, improved the accuracy of our quoting process, and helped us present a much more professional image to our customers. The Cadlogic team are incredibly dedicated and highly knowledgeable, always there when we need them. We would absolutely recommend CADLogic to other companies with similar requirements for bespoke quoting, CAD, and production workflow systems. Our advice would be to invest time in defining your processes clearly at the start, as a tailored solution can deliver major improvements in efficiency, consistency, and accuracy. "
— Ingus - Operations Director