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TOPSOLID Makes Its Debut in Italian High School Graduation Exam Rooms

In Italy, TopSolid has even made its way into the high school graduation exams. From CAD and CAM to CNC programming and production, discover how an innovative educational approach prepares students for the realities of modern industry.

TopSolid’Web Configurator: Configure, Quote, and Sell in 3D Right from Your Browser

TopSolid’Web Configurator enables manufacturers to configure, price, and sell 3D products directly from a web browser, all while drawing on a single database.

Automation, Integration, Simulation: A Guide to Game-Changing CAD/CAM Trends

Automation, CAD/CAM/ERP integration, simulation, digital twins, additive manufacturing: Discover the CAD/CAM trends that are transforming manufacturers’ performance and competitiveness in 2026.

Robots in the Workshop: What If Programming Were No Longer an Obstacle?

Industrial robot programming remains a challenge for many manufacturing facilities. Discover how TopSolid’Cam Robot integrates robotics into your existing CAD/CAM environment to program, simulate, and ensure the safety of your robotic machining operations without disrupting the digital workflow.

Training tomorrow’s technicians to use today’s tools

TOPSOLID is strengthening its commitment to industrial education through practical educational projects, CAD/CAM tools used in the workplace, and a community dedicated to educators. Here’s a look at an initiative that bridges the gap between education and industry.

TopSolid’Inspection: Optimizing Quality Control Without Disrupting the Digital Workflow

In many manufacturing facilities, quality control remains disconnected from the digital workflow, leading to data re-entry, errors, and wasted time. With TopSolid’Inspection, inspection is directly integrated between CAD and the shop floor to automate data collection, secure data, and improve industrial performance.

The Benefits of APIs for the Integration and Automation of Industrial Systems

How can you effectively integrate your CAD, ERP, and production systems? APIs designed for Industry 4.0 enable you to automate data flows, eliminate the need for re-entry, and create custom business applications. The result: a seamless digital workflow that is more efficient, more reliable, and perfectly tailored to your industrial environment.

Woodworking: How Can We Modernize Production Without Losing Traditional Craftsmanship?

Caught between tradition and performance, the woodworking industry faces a strategic challenge: modernizing without compromising its artisanal expertise. Contrary to popular belief, digital tools designed for woodworking can enhance creativity, optimize material use, and ensure production safety while respecting traditional craft practices. Discover how a gradual and tailored digital transition enables woodworking artisans and small and medium-sized enterprises to become more competitive without losing their identity.

Production Data: Why Industrial SMEs Need to Break Their Reliance on Excel

Excel remains widely used for managing production data in industrial small and medium-sized enterprises. However, data entry errors, gaps in traceability, and a lack of reliability expose companies to significant risks. This article explains why and how to move beyond reliance on spreadsheets to secure industrial processes.

Industrial Subcontracting: How Can You Leverage Your Expertise to Stand Out?

In a highly competitive industrial subcontracting market, equipment alone is no longer enough. Discover how to document and showcase your technical expertise to set yourself apart in the long term, better market your expertise, and defend your prices through digitalization.

Producing Quickly and Effectively: Industrial SMEs Facing the Challenge of Customer Deadlines

Between customer pressure, unforeseen events, and limited resources, industrial SMEs face a major challenge: meeting deadlines without compromising quality. By shifting from reactive management to proactive planning, they gain greater visibility, reliability, and peace of mind. Discover how foresight, digitalization, and tool integration are becoming essential drivers for sustainably improving performance and customer satisfaction.

From the Design Office to the Workshop: How Can We Break Down Silos to Improve Production?

In many industrial companies, the separation between the engineering department and the shop floor leads to delays, misunderstandings, and lost productivity. Digital continuity and improved information flow can eliminate these silos to enhance consistency, quality, and overall performance. Discover how to rethink communication, capitalize on expertise, and establish seamless collaboration between design and manufacturing.

Multi-client outsourcing: the thorny issue of traceability

Multi-client subcontracting imposes increasingly strict traceability requirements. Between different versions of drawings, material certificates, and inspection records, companies are facing growing complexity. By centralizing technical data and automating document links, it becomes possible to standardize traceability without complicating processes. Discover how an integrated PDM solution transforms this challenge into a true competitive advantage.

Machine Monitoring: How to Move from Passive Monitoring to a Culture of Performance

Machine monitoring must go beyond simply collecting data. By incorporating analysis, context, and team involvement, it becomes a true driver of performance for the shop floor.

How can you convince your executives to invest in software?

Learn how to build a solid software investment case: arguments tailored to decision-makers, overall ROI, a comparative analysis, and benefits for the company.

TopSolid’Mold: control mould-based tool design from A to Z

The plastic moulding industry is becoming more complex every year. Manufacturers of moulded parts now have a whole series of constraints to contend with: highly sophisticated geometries, multiple functions and very tight deadlines, to name a few. That increasing...

TopSolid’Inspection: automated quality inspections you can trust

With production lines under serious pressure, in a context marked by increasingly strict regulatory traceability requirements, quality inspection has a key role to play. Not least because every part has to satisfy ever more stringent standards, and the slightest...

TopSolid’Cut: CAD/CAM for Controlled Sheet Metal Fabrication

Given the growing complexity of projects and the shortage of skilled labor, TopSolid’Cut has established itself as the CAD/CAM solution designed specifically for sheet metal fabrication. Automation, digital integration, and process optimization make it a true driver of performance and competitiveness for the industry.

Mecachrome Streamlines Its Shop Floor Workflows with TopSolid’ShopFloor

Find out how Mecachrome has improved the reliability of its CNC transfers and enhanced shop-floor traceability using TopSolid’ShopFloor at its Montauban facility.