Duro
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Design Engineering to Supply Chain interfacing made easy!
What do you like best about the product?
Duro has really simplified our BOM management. Gone are the days of spreadsheets, tedious and error prone manual entry and updating, and confusion. Now our design engineers can focus on the design work and let Duro take the handoff of fabrication data over to our Supply chain folks quickly and pain free!
What do you dislike about the product?
Adopting Duro and incorperating it to our workflow was a challange up front. Our workflow didn't map to Duro's processes exactly and we've had to revamp our process to maximize our usage of Duro. Overall it's been a positive as our workflow is now better overall and we can move products from R&D to production much more quickly. My suggestion to others is to adopt Duro early in your buisness's development and avoid the pain of integrating later.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Duro is solving the hassle of generating Bill of Materials, communicating them from the Design Egineers to Supply Chain and working with those BOMS through design changes.
A great tool for managing complexity in a product
What do you like best about the product?
Duro quickly allowed us to get a handle on our electronics Bill of Materials and understand the parts used across the full product bill of materials instead of just looking at a board or assembly level. The integrations to pull pricing information for electronics are also great for understanding costs quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
The electronics pricing information that is pulled automatically lacks options to change part numbers after the fact and select specific distributors. The BOM export for electronics also is not quite setup in a way that matches what we would normally provide to our manufacturing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Duro helps to automate our release process and remove steps of manual review and release that were previously error prone. It also gives us a much better high level look at all the components involved in creating our product.
Excellent PLM solution
What do you like best about the product?
Duro's web interface is sleek and intuitive, with multiple options for creating or adding to a component database. Their Solidworks integration allows for seamless linking of existing CAD files to the web database, and their change order system automates what used to be a tedious and paperwork-intensive process into a few simple clicks. The most impressive part, however, had been the white glove handing of the migration process. Duro's staff has been nothing short of amazing during onboarding, often answering email questions in a matter of minutes. Kellan and Merritt have shown repeatedly that they not only value our time as much as we do, but that they understand how messy the switch to a new platform can be and are willing to entertain client-side suggestions to smooth the process- even for unique use cases.
What do you dislike about the product?
At this point, any of my concerns about using Duro involve issues tied to using generic PDM (Box) storage and are already on Duro's radar to be solved when they release their own PDM solution. Things like how certain documents are updated on the web side after being generated during a release might be short term annoyances (and these are issues that we have simple solutions for), but they are far outweighed by the value Duro brings to streamlining so many other aspects of our PLM needs. It's a great platform with the promise to be an even greater complete product management solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Duro streamlines our change order process, allows us to easily access information about even the largest assemblies in one place, generate complete design package documentation with only a few clicks, and loop our contract manufacturers into our internal change orders.
Awesome Lightweight PLM!
What do you like best about the product?
Duro is a great lightweight, easy-to-use PLM tool.
I would highly recommend this tool to anyone as their first PLM to scale their engineering org.
- EE items, the MPN auto-match feature is great and is a huge time saver!
- Intergrations are included with the enterprise plan, with no hidden add-ons or 3rd party finger-pointing.
- Duro is fast to set up, and the interface is simple and user-friendly for quick team onboarding; if you're looking for TeamCenter, Arena, Windchill, etc level feature set, just get one of those tools and spend ~6 months setting up and training team members and 2-3x the license cost.
I would highly recommend this tool to anyone as their first PLM to scale their engineering org.
- EE items, the MPN auto-match feature is great and is a huge time saver!
- Intergrations are included with the enterprise plan, with no hidden add-ons or 3rd party finger-pointing.
- Duro is fast to set up, and the interface is simple and user-friendly for quick team onboarding; if you're looking for TeamCenter, Arena, Windchill, etc level feature set, just get one of those tools and spend ~6 months setting up and training team members and 2-3x the license cost.
What do you dislike about the product?
Duro is an excellent fit for small to mid-scale teams, but it may not include all the bells and whistles of other tools. I would suggest researching the features you need and check with the Duro team, as new features are released often.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Part Number, BOM, ECO, Integrate with CAD and MES tools.
Duro has excellent functionality and a great user experience
What do you like best about the product?
Duro is very easy to use and has all the functionality we need for our business. The supporting team has also been excellent to work with, further enhancing the experience using the tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
This is a tricky question to answer, as we've only just started using it and we really haven't experienced any issues. We have reported minor bugs, but they've been handled well by their team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Duro to execute all of our Configuration Management activities. This includes controlling and releasing project documents, company procedures, and all other types of hardware, software, and document Configuration Items.
Good software with great support
What do you like best about the product?
The integration with Onshape completely automates data entry saving hours of work.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lacking some basic features such as the ability to use different currencies when specifying unit cost for parts, and the ability to build an assembly with an older revision part.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cloud based PLM allows us to collate all our product information onto a single platform that can be widely and readily accessed by our team, rather than having to pull information from several different sources.
Duro Review 2022 - Suitable PLM
What do you like best about the product?
A good tool to track the life cycle of all products and the BOM data is easy to drill down. Easy to extract data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Usage is limited to part numbers life-cycle. No built in simple analysis tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Product life cycle, creating a BOM and cost analysis/lead times.
I would recommend Duro for companies that are not looking to progress as fast as we are.
What do you like best about the product?
The most useful part of Duro is the onshape integration when it is working as it reduces manual data entry that is required for solidworks use. Being able to pull part numbers and having some CAD data flow across is handy.
What do you dislike about the product?
The amount of manual data entry that is required to complete all the different fields that are not pulled from CAD. Along with this is the endless number of minor bugs that make the usability annoying and time consuming. These bugs seem like they would be easily picked up in basic QA. For example, when you spend more than 5 mins with an open page editing the part and you are made to do a mandatory refresh losing all your work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Duro is solving the fact that we use multiple CAD programs and can't use an integrated PLM software, it also removes the need for local storage of the data. However, the security concerns of this are sometimes worrying.
Duro is great but still has some maturing to do
What do you like best about the product?
The interface and general user experience is intuitive and easy to use. The BOM structuring is sensible, and all information can usually be found where you expect it.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some major features missing (like selection of and conversion between different currencies), and some odd interface issues (material label obscured despite plenty of page space).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The integrations with other software have been problematic. There have been instances where Duro was unwilling to fix integration issues that clearly originated on their side. For example the BOM export option could only export xlsx projects where the obvious agnostic format for integrations to other software is CSV.
My Experience with Duro as a recent Graduate
What do you like best about the product?
The unified part number generation has been useful and allows for easy tracking of parts and inventory. The revision control is very helpful and integrates well with our workflow. I also appreciate the UI layout, it is very intuitive and has good visual appeal. As someone who hasnt used other PDM software apart from Solidworks PDM, I find it generally quite reasonable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The integration with Onshape releases and Solidworks has had occasional issues. Also, the revisioning of uploaded documents should be added to the file name automatically upon export to increase clarity. Ability to search for components could be improved by allowing more granular searching. Duro needs to allow for different currencies in the Sourcing information and allow for links between components to be used as EID. There are many components that are manufactured from existing components in Duro that should be better linked to increase clarity for supply chain and production. Ocassional downtime has impacted our productivity, however Duro has always responded quickly do our issues and helped address complaints.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Duro is helping solve our PDM shortage by allowing easy access to our product tree and components. Productivity with Duro is limited by the administrative burdon however this has improved recently. Duro has helped build the product tree and track component price at a subsystem level. Ability to generate part numbers quickly and easily and ensure that all items have a standardised naming convention has been a big improvement to our workshop.
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