Engagement · Manufacturing · New York + Global
Innovant. From eight hours to ten minutes.
A custom-furniture manufacturer designing for Fortune-500 corporate floors. Customization was the product — and the bottleneck. Parametric Autodesk Inventor models replaced manual part adjustment; a C# .NET bundler replaced manual drawing assembly. The shop floor went from receiving an eight-hour bundle to receiving a ten-minute one.
- Client
- Innovant Inc.
- Sector
- Manufacturing · custom office furniture (since 1990)
- End clients
- Fortune 500 — Apple, Google, Morgan Stanley, Redfin
- Engagement
- Parametric CAD + automated drawing bundling
- Stack
- Autodesk Inventor · iLogic · VBA · Inventor API · C# .NET · AutoCAD
- Performed by
- ShiftCTRL
Bespoke at scale.
Innovant has designed and manufactured custom office furniture since 1990 — workstations, conference solutions, and private office environments for prestigious corporate clients worldwide. Their products integrate into architectural spaces while delivering tailored functionality at the per-floor level.
The more custom the work got, the worse the bottleneck. Every order meant engineers hand-adjusting thousands of parts and then losing a full day assembling the drawing bundle for the shop floor — and a single mistake in that bundle meant wrong parts cut and material wasted. Innovant brought us in to automate both.
Two bottlenecks. Both manual.
Custom part creation.
Each client order required engineers to manually adjust thousands of unique parts — modifying dimensions, materials, configurations, and more. The labor consumed weeks of engineering time, delaying project timelines and inflating costs.
Drawing generation and bundling.
Once a design was finalized, engineers spent an entire day — eight hours — generating and organizing the engineering drawings the shop floor needed. Manual errors regularly produced outdated or incorrect parts in the bundle, which produced production mistakes, material waste, and further delays.
Parametric models. A bundler. The Inventor API throughout.
Parametric CAD models for automated customization.
Built on Autodesk Inventor, iLogic, VBA, and the Autodesk Inventor API. The parametric models dynamically generate custom parts to client specification — automatically adjusting screws, threads, material dimensions, cutouts, and mounting points to meet exact requirements.
// IMPACTEngineering time for custom parts reduced by up to 80%, transforming what once took weeks into hours.Automated drawing generation and bundling tool.
Built in C# .NET against the Autodesk Inventor API. The bundler identifies the master assembly for each project, generates a comprehensive parts list including all components and subcomponents, updates hundreds-to-thousands of engineering drawings to ensure accuracy and consistency, and exports the updated drawings to designated folders organized by part number — producing a complete bundle ready for the shop floor.
// IMPACTA workflow that previously took 8 hours runs in 10 minutes — over 95% time saved — with the automated path eliminating human errors end-to-end.
Measured against the workflow it replaced.
Where our own planning tool came from.
This is the engagement our network-planning tool traces back to. The work was the same shape: parametric models that generate parts to spec, and a bundler that turns one master assembly into a complete, correct package for the floor. We build network designs the same way now — generate the plan, check it, hand over something the install crew can follow without guessing.