With increasing speed, quality, versatility, and simplicity expectations from customers around the world, manufacturers are in need of a complete re-engineering of the machine design, simulation, procurement, and commissioning process.

This increase in expectations is causing product life cycles to shorten which has put tremendous pressure on the way that products are conceived, developed, manufactured and delivered. Despite major technological advances, most OEMs still source their custom equipment from suppliers with long lead-times caused by a complex and iterative design-quote-order process.

Vention is the first digital manufacturing platform dedicated to machine design. The company provides a fully integrated 3D MachineBuilder™ and modular component library that lets users design, order and assemble custom industrial equipment directly from a web browser in just a few days instead of months. Vention is serving everything from large automobile and aerospace companies to emerging robotics startups. The company also recently became the first and only design software and hardware platform certified by Universal Robots, the world’s largest collaborative robot manufacturer.