Exceeding expectations.

Here’s a recent quote from Sovella Oy, another of our favourite clients


Our online configurator has met all the goals set:

  • All our distributors have placed the link to the product configurator on their websites.
  • We create fewer drawings in our HQ as our distributors also use the online configurator for creating drawings for their customers.
  • We receive about 5-10 online request worldwide for quotations per day via our configurator. Therefore the goal of 600 is easily reached.
  • Good thing to mention is that we get 30% of these from new prospects, people we never met but are truly interested in our products.

We are now working on the second stage of the project as our sales personal want more

Frodo Rijk (Sovella Oy)

online product configurator

Huge thanks to the team at Sovella who are a great client to work for.

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3D Furniture for Aarkid Virtual Showroom

Concept Furniture, a leading event furniture hire company in the UK, have launched Aarkid 3D-Standards solution on their website for their customers. Concept furniture’s customers (Exhibition Organisers) will be able to re-brand and embed the application in the exhibitor pages of their own event websites.

The real beneficiaries are the exhibitors, who will use the application to visualise their own trade show booth, populate it with (Concept Furniture) seating, tables, banner stands and other furniture items, then send it through for an instant quotation.

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Customisable Product: Golf clubs

Take a look at this great gift!! Sent to us by a prospective client, a set of Aarkid branded golf clubs; whatever next!
Our remit is to build a ‘fun’ product configurator to help launch this new customization service online, we couldn’t be more pleased to be selected. We’re all for receiving gifts from our clients (ahem ..hint) as it helps us relate to the product and we can immediately see where the pain points will be for the configuration process. We’ll update with a link to the online configurator once the project is complete, expected early 2012. Thank you – we’re chuffed to bits!

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2 New Manufacturers Join Aarkid Virtual Showroom Network

Aarkid Virtual Showroom software has over 12,000 users. With new manufacturers joining monthly, sales teams and distributors are customising products to win new customers.

3D-Standards has a public portal at www.babycad.com where you can play with the 3D application developed by Aarkid.

Recent manufacturers to join include portable display systems manufacturers T3 and Protean who have populated the app with their products. Their distributors can re-brand the app and use it to ensure they respond to enquiries faster than anyone else. Case study distributors report growth in sales of over 50%.

If you’re interested in adding your products to this low-cost virtual showroom tool, get in touch here.

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“The software has been nothing short of phenomenal”

Here’s an excerpt from testimonial provided by Skytron

Skytron has been working with Aarkid for 4+ years, from our initial collaboration on how to design our custom 3D planning software for health care applications, to steadily and flexibly updating our application to meet our unique needs. The software that Aarkid developed allows us to exceed the demands of our customers creating new industry standard for planning and design.

Our rules based program allows our sales staff to quickly build any one of tens of thousands of possible configurations accurately and correctly without years learning the ‘rules’. Our reps feel confident when using the program while working with our clients and hospital clinicians. All of our 200 plus sales representatives use the program with their customers on a daily or weekly basis. It has saved our hospitals and our company countless hours of time and effort compared to our previous practice of producing multiple layout/planning drawings with Auto CAD.

Our customers can ‘test’ where equipment makes the best sense to be mounted, as well as determine room size and work flows that maximize efficiencies and eliminate clutter and unwanted obstructions. Our customers can immediately visualize their room in plan view or in 3D. This allows them to review and critique preconceived plans that might have otherwise cost several thousands of dollars to correct after installation, or worse, lead to underutilization of the clinical space and capital investment.

We focus on getting things right the first time with our 3D planning tool. If our customers can visualize it, we can help them build it and achieve their clinical goals. The benefit is cost savings, patient safety, improved clinical outcomes and satisfied clinicians. The software provides a team approach to collaboration and gives our clients an immediate visual feedback on the front end of projects.

The software provided by Aarkid in development with Skytron has been nothing short of phenomenal and was easily integrated into our existing sales and quoting tools. The application provides for itemized and cumulative budgetary estimations. It provides our sales representatives and their customers with budgetary estimates of their overall plan…maximizing team collaboration, as well as significantly reducing or even eliminating cost overruns.

Mike Franklin / Randy Tomaszewski – Skytron Surgical

Thanks guys! – wecontinue to enjoy working with Skytron.

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Medical Equipment Configurator

Here are some screens from the operating room configurator we built for medical equipment maufacturer Skytron Surgical.

The First two pictures show complex heart surgery layout made by one of Skytrons’ distributors for a local hospital.

The third image is the 3D viewer that the distributor emails to the client.

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The final image shows one page from the PDF output, the PDF is generated on the server and includes a screen-shot from the 3D view. This page has been included to illustrate the level of detail that can be configured within each equipment carrier on the end of the boom arms.
Although there are a lot of options, the configurator is rules based, so distributors are led through the process and incompatible choices are eliminated.

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Interactive Product Presentations for Trade Show Kiosks

Our customers Day4 Energy are the latest to have great success with their 3d product presentations loaded into interactive touch screen kiosks, reporting a great reaction from the delegates on the trade show floor. While optimised for web delivery, Aarkid interactive product presentations can be used effectively to draw the attention of the crowds at your next trade show.
Running from a local hard drive, or even directly from a USB stick, your 3D presentation can be used successfully offline by your sales staff and customers.

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STERIS Document Automation

document-automation-3STERIS Corporation approached Aarkid for a rules driven product configurator and document automation system for their new concept in OR control.

Designed for both on-line and off-line use with automatic synchronisation, this HTML5 solution works across multiple devices including iPad. Unfortunately as we’re under NDA we can’t let you play with this one, but here’s an example of the output:

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Otoport 3D Product Demo

This 3D product presentation for Otodynamics has a ‘keep alive’ toggle feature to automate the tour through product features when left running on a trade show booth.

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Pine Research Glass Cell Configurator

pine-glass-configuratorThis recent proof of concept was made for Pine Research. Showing a simple rules based configuration system which can be edited, the feedback in the 3D view took some work! Those layered translucent materials caused some grief for the coding team! – well done guys, nice result.

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