CADTALK Announces Partnership with QAD to Support Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises

CADTALK'S expertise in data transformation and innovative AI-based software will give QAD customers an edge in achieving manufacturing goals faster.

(Ft. Wright, KY; September 14, 2022) - CADTALK, a worldwide leader in CAD to ERP integration, has announced the release of a software integration with QAD Inc. As a global technology partner of QAD, CADTALK's AI-based software will bring digital transformation to existing and prospective QAD clients and enable customers to quickly implement a low/no code solution for transforming engineering bills of material (eBOM) to manufacturing bills of material (mBOM).


CADTALK is the world's first and only software leveraging artificial intelligence to transform eBOMs from virtually any CAD, PDM, or PLM application into mBOMs and routings inside the most popular ERP applications, such as QAD. The software saves engineers hundreds of hours of time by eliminating manual data entry and improves manufacturing processes all around with a software that reads and translates data from engineering to manufacturing systems.

QAD Adaptive ERP is a world-class ERP solution used by some of the largest enterprises in the world in a diverse set of industries including food and beverage, automotive, industrial, high tech, consumer products and life sciences.

Scott Brickler, Founder and CEO of CADTALK, stated the importance of the partnership in terms of the expanded functionality CADTALK software will provide to QAD and its customers: "Our primary goal in partnering with QAD is to enable their customers to achieve better results from their QAD ERP integration. We are very proud to partner with QAD to deliver a truly innovative solution to their customers in the manufacturing industry."

"We have been doing ERP integrations for many years now and have extensive experience with manufacturers," said Jeff Brickler, Solution Architect for CADTALK. "This partnership will help QAD customers achieve success with their ERP faster, and enable them to better leverage all the features QAD Adaptive ERP offers, and get their products from engineering to shop floor as much as 80% faster."

The QAD Global Partner Program includes over 100 partners including technology, software, channel and consulting partners. QAD partners expand the QAD ecosystem and strengthen its strategic position in the industries that it serves. QAD and its partners continuously evolve, broadening QAD's expertise and footprint to meet the diverse needs of customers around the world.

"Our partners enable us to create more robust products that are more agile, more extensive and easily adaptable to changing markets," said Guido Van den Broeck, Director of Product Management at QAD. "CADTALK'S expertise in data transformation and innovative AI-based software will give QAD customers an edge in achieving manufacturing goals faster. We are happy that CADTALK shares our commitment to delivering innovative solutions to the manufacturing industry and looks forward to collaborating with them on future software enhancements and capabilities."

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