# H Company — Where the hours go in a SolidWorks design office

- Company: H Company (hcompany.ai)
- Announced: 2026-11-03
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://hcompany.ai/newsroom/solidworks-design-office-hours
- Record: https://forck.live/items/31479-where-the-hours-go-in-a-solidworks-design-office
- Subject: Holo

H Company is describing where SolidWorks design offices lose hours to manual drawing checks, BOM cross-checks and configuration updates, and how its agents take that work over. The company says the same three complaints come back from heads of engineering: large assemblies take a long time to open, every revision means re-checking drawings and BOMs by hand, and errors surface too late. It puts the cost of a BOM error caught by purchasing or on the shop floor at €10K to €100K in wrong parts, rework and delay. H agents work through the same screens engineers already use, reading drawings, models and BOMs, with no API to build, no migration and no new stack, according to the company. A European engineering firm started with one task, checking a file out of PDM and back in, and months later covers six SolidWorks workflows, including drawing compliance against 12 in-house templates, part generation, 3D configurations and BOM generation. Agents run on a private cloud instance through an outbound-only connection with zero data retention, every action is traced and replayable, and engineers keep the final check. H Company estimates a team of 30 engineers spending 20% of its time on checks, BOMs and configuration updates adds up to nearly 10,000 hours a year, and offers a free written assessment of one workflow within a week of a 30-minute call.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://hcompany.ai/newsroom/solidworks-design-office-hours:

> Every revision restarts the same drawing checks, BOM cross-checks and configuration updates. Here is where that time goes, and how design offices are handing it to agents that work directly in SolidWorks.
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> Insights November 3, 2026 · 3 min read By Albert Reynaud
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> Projects move faster than they used to. Clients change specs more often. And every change restarts the same series of checks: drawings reviewed against your standards, BOMs cross-checked between SolidWorks, the PDM vault and the ERP, configurations updated one by one.
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> That work rarely shows up in a project plan, but it lands on the people you can least spare: the experienced engineers who know your templates and your tolerancing rules by heart.
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> Three places the hours go
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> When we talk to heads of engineering, the same three complaints come back.
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> “We wait on the tool.” Large assemblies take a long time to open, and engineers watch progress bars instead of designing.
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> “We check everything twice.” Every revision means re-checking drawings and BOMs by hand, often carried by one or two experts.

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