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Ra Workshop - Aluminum, uPVC and Wood Design Joinery Software for Windows and Doors with Cutting Optimization for CNC

Ra Workshop is the best software for windows and doors industry - from resellers and dealers, to manufacturers and suppliers. Ra Workshop can use aluminium, vinyl (uPVC/PVC) or wood profiles and is able to design and compute a great variety of products (windows, doors, shutters, roller shutters, insect screens, roller insect screens, panels, etc.). The application is flexible and has a friendly interface that will help you design window and door estimations in minutes. Our cutting optimization algorithm gives greatest results in order to use your aluminium, pvc, wood profiles with minimal losses. If you have a CNC cutting machine our software can connect to them and send all cutting optimization information for process automation.

Built on the latest technology, Ra Workshop meets the needs of window & door fabricators regardless of their size – from small to very large businesses. Using Ra Workshop gives your company a real advantage – from increased sales performance to automated production.

Our mission is to make Ra Workshop the best joinery software in the world. Our teams are working every day to add new window and door design features, to add new profile systems and new fitting systems to our databases and to enhance the computing performance of Ra Workshop. We look forward to becoming our customer and we assure you that we will assist you along the way so you will have the maximum benefit from your Ra Workshop experience.
 

Ra Workshop - System Requirements

Following are the minimum requirements for systems that run Ra Workshop 3.

Processor:   PC 1 GHz (2 GHz or higher recommended)    RAM:   1 GB of RAM (2 GB or more recommended)    Hard Disk:   500 MB free space    Display:   Designed for XGA resolution at 1024 × 768 or higher    Operating System:   Windows 2000 SP6 or later Windows XP SP2 or later Windows Server 2003 Windows Vista Windows Server 2008 Windows 7     Database:   Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Express, Standard or Enterprise)    Technology:   Microsoft Windows .Net Framework 4.0    Browser:   Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP 1 (Internet Explorer 9 recommended)    Installer:   Windows Installer 4.5    Privileges:   Administrative privileges on the system    Mouse:   Microsoft IntelliMouse or other compatible pointing device

RA Workshop Ultra Lite

Ra Workshop Ultra Lite is the basic package for window and door estimations. It has all the features required to create window and door offers with excellent quality design. And the best part is that Ra Workshop Ultra Lite is free.

Main features:

	Rectangular window and door designs
	Main windows and doors offer reports
	Supported materials: Aluminum, uPVC, Wood
	Use: windows and doors estimation/quotation software

Ra Workshop Ultra Lite - Overview

Ra Workshop Ultra Lite is a great tool to design rectangular windows and doors. With this software edition you can create casement windows/doors (side hung windows/doors), tilt and turn windows, awning windows (tilt windows). The window offers can be customized with company logo and contact information, with introduction and closing, with extra costs like: mark up, transportation, assembly.

Ra Workshop Ultra Lite is Out of the Box and Ready to Go software. Although it is a full version product, Ra Workshop Ultra Lite does not require any payment. It’s a fully functional software with a fully functional profile and hardware systems database that will allow you to make window and door designs in minutes. Just download, install it and start creating windows and doors. Enjoy our software and feel free to send us your feedback.

Recommendation: This package is recommended for small companies that sell windows and doors and are looking for a fast and easy way to create offers. This package is also suitable to companies that sell and/or manufacture profile systems and want to help their customers with a window estimating software - leaving further upgrades to them.

Database: Ra Workshop is able to compute almost any profile system in the world. This package is delivered with a free database that contains 11 profile systems, each with corresponding hardware (fittings) systems. If you want other profile systems you can insert your own or you can buy profile/fitting systems from us.

RA Workshop Lite

Ra Workshop Lite has the most common features needed to create windows and doors offers. With this package you can create all types of windows and doors that optionally may have insect screens.

Main features:

	All shape types windows and doors design
	All windows and doors offer reports
	Insect screens
	Supported materials: Aluminum, uPVC, Wood
	Use: windows and doors estimation/quotation software

Ra Workshop Lite - Overview

Ra Workshop Lite is a window and door qutation software suitable for use by medium fabricators. This package is designed to run in showrooms, to help your staff to create window and door estimations for your customers. Using Ra Workshop Lite you can create all shape type windows and doors with different openings that may have also insect screens.

Recommendation: This package is recommended to be used by medium companies in their showrooms. It has all the features required to create all type of windows and doors fast and to generate professional window offers that will increase your sells from day one.

Database: Ra Workshop is able to compute almost any profile system in the world. This package is delivered with a free database that contains 11 profile systems, each with corresponding hardware (fittings) systems. If you want other profile systems you can insert your own or you can buy profile/fitting systems from us.

Ra Workshop Lite - Screenshots

Bellow you can find a list of screenshots from this edition of Ra Workshop. Click on the picture to open it in a new window and to view it on the real size.

RA Workshop Express

Ra Workshop Express is the complete package that allows you to control all the details of your window and door offers. With Ra Workshop Express you can create all types of windows and doors, you can add insect screens, roller insect screens, shutters and roller shutters. Also you can edit the bill of material in order to have complete control on your window and door prices.

Main features:

	All types and shapes windows and doors design
	All types of insect screens and shutters design
	All windows and doors offer reports
	Some production reports
	Supported materials: Aluminum, uPVC, Wood
	Use: windows and doors estimation/quotation software

Ra Workshop Express - Screenshots

Bellow you can find a list of screenshots from this edition of Ra Workshop. Click on the picture to open it in a new window and to view it on the real size.

RA Workshop Standard

Ra Workshop Standard is the basic production edition. It has all the production reports but is limited to compute only rectangular windows and doors. Also, Ra Workshop Standard Edition does not include cutting optimization. This can be purchased as an Add On.

Main features:

	Rectangular window and door designs
	All offer and production reports
	Supported materials: Aluminum, uPVC, Wood
	Use: rectangular windows and doors estimation and production software

Ra Workshop Standard - Overview

Ra Workshop Standard was designed as a corresponding production edition for Ra Workshop Ultra Lite. It allows you to design only rectangular windows and doors but will generate all the production paper work: profile cuttings, glass cuttings, assembly list, execution plan, order reports, etc. You should take into account that Ra Workshop Standard lacks two important features: irregular shape design and cutting optimization. If you are interested about these features also you should check Professional, Advanced Professional or Enterprise editions. Cutting optimization, though, can be purchased independently, as an Add On.

Recommendation: If you use Ra Workshop Ultra Lite and you are interested in a production software for rectangular windows and doors then Ra Workshop Standard will meet your requirements. Along with the cutting optimization add on you can have a full featured rectangular window production software.

Database: Ra Workshop is able to compute almost any profile system in the world. This package is delivered with a free database that contains 11 profile systems, each with corresponding hardware (fittings) systems. If you want other profile systems you can insert your own or you can buy profile/fitting systems from us.

Ra Workshop Standard - Screenshots

Bellow you can find a list of screenshots from this edition of Ra Workshop. Click on the picture to open it in a new window and to view it on the real size.

RA Workshop Professional

Ra Workshop Professional is the middle production edition. It has all the features needed to design all types of windows and doors (except custom shape), all types of insect screens, all types of shutters and is able to generate all the production reports. Ra Workshop Professional does not include cutting optimization.

Main features:

	All types and shapes windows and doors design
	All types of insect screens and shutters design
	All offer and production reports
	Supported materials: Aluminum, uPVC, Wood
	Use: windows and doors estimation and production software

Ra Workshop Professional - Overview

Ra Workshop Professional includes a wide range of standard features capable of growing your business. This edition was designed for medium and large sized fabricators that manufacture a large range of products.

Ra Workshop Professional is a production edition that will help you design and manufacture almost any window or door in the world. For highly complex structures you may need Advanced Professional edition. With Professional edition you will benefit from all the offer reports: client offer, dealer offer and all the production reports: assembly list, cutting quotations, execution plan, labor, order reports.

Recommendation: Ra Workshop Professional is a production edition recommended to those that are not interested in cutting optimizations (algorithms that will show you how to cut profiles in order waste less material) and advanced window design (tools that will help you creating complex windows and doors).

Database: Ra Workshop is able to compute almost any profile system in the world. This package is delivered with a free database that contains 11 profile systems, each with corresponding hardware (fittings) systems. If you want other profile systems you can insert your own or you can buy profile/fitting systems from us.

RA Workshop Advanced Professional

RA Workshop Advanced Professional is the ultimate, fully featured edition. It is configured for best performance and with a maximum return of your investment. We are proud to say that we have the best cutting optimization in the world and this translates to more money for you.

Main features:

	All types and shapes windows and doors design
	All types of insect screens and shutters
	All offer and production reports
	Cutting optimization
	Supported materials: Aluminum, uPVC, Wood
	Use: windows and doors estimation and production software

Ra Workshop Advanced Professional - Overview

Ra Workshop Advanced Professional is the complete joinery production edition. It allows you to design all types of windows and doors (including custom shapes) and to generate all the reports needed in the production process. The application includes also cutting optimization in order to use your profiles with minimal losses. The production workflow contains offer projects that are sent electronically to the production center. Here the offers are grouped into production projects. The production projects are rechecked and optimized. After that you can generate all the production paper work.
Optionally you can buy the CNC Add On so you can control the cutting machine (saw) from Ra Workshop. The CNC Add On can control any machine that supports numerical control. If your machine is not listed don’t worry because we can do a custom development just for you. This complete workflow will give your company a real advantage through automated production.

Recommendation: Our recommendation is that any small, medium and large windows and doors fabricator must have at least one Advanced Professional license and several Express (based on individual needs).

Database: Ra Workshop is able to compute almost any profile system in the world. This package is delivered with a free database that contains 11 profile systems, each with corresponding hardware (fittings) systems. If you want other profile systems you can insert your own or you can buy profile/fitting systems from us.

RA Workshop Enterprise

Ra Workshop Enterprise is the client/server edition of Ra Workshop. This package contains one license of Ra Workshop Server. This application is a Windows based service application that will manage the connections between the client applications and the database server.

Main features:

	All types and shapes windows and doors design
	All types of insect screens and shutters
	All offer and production reports
	Client/server arhitecture
	Supported materials: Aluminum, uPVC, Wood
	Use: windows and doors production software

Ra Workshop Enterprise - Overview

Large windows and doors fabricators need strong, flexible and scalable software solutions that are able to integrate with other software for process automation. Ra Workshop Enterprise is designed especially for big companies.

Ra Workshop can run in two different ways desktop and client/server, each way having different functionality and performance characteristics. The desktop editions are classic application that runs on a single personal computer. Everything is installed locally: program files, database server, tools. For example, if you have more licenses and you want to make a change to the database you will have to replicate the change on each computer at the time.

Ra Workshop Enterprise is designed as a three tier application which will increase performance, security and scalability. The Enterprise edition is composed of 3 components:

	Ra Workshop Server - windows service applications that manage the connections and the business logic for Ra Workshop
	Ra Workshop Database Server - Microsoft SQL Server provides the highest levels of security, reliability, and scalability for your business-critical applications.
	Ra Workshop Client - any editions of Ra Workshop that has an additional connectivity license (Ra Workshop CAL).

How does Ra Workshop Enterprise implementation works?

The implementation of the Ra Workshop Enterprise implies an analysis of the company’s needs: dividing users into groups depending on their type of activity, analysis of the offer calculation modality (extra costs), analysis of manual labor operations, analysis of management reports and last but not least the planning of the workflow within the factory.

Once the analyzing part is completed the next step is to start implementing the results into Ra Workshop. All these settings are done by our team at Pyramid Software under the supervision of your representative.

The Go Live stage means the release of the application into the actual production field. Offer projects will be created. They will be saved on the server from which the production team will open, analyze and group into production projects. The production projects will be optimized based on the factory production capacity and the workflow previously designed. After the optimization process the production reports and machine data files will be generated. Based on the feedback from the production stage, database and/or application tunings will be made. (I.E.: it is possible that we wish for some extra information to appear on the stamps generated by the cutting machine or to modify a code from the database).

The complete automation of joinery production is not easy. It needs a lot of work and most important of all an application that is capable to manage all the details. Ra Workshop Enterprise is this kind of application and Pyramid Software has the necessary experience to manage this type of implementation. If you have problems or questions don’t hesitate to contact us. We always enjoy to talk to people that are involved in windows and doors offering/production processes.

What are the advantages of implementing Ra Workshop Enterprise?

Business Intelligence
Ra Workshop Enterprise provides a scalable business intelligence platform optimized for data integration, reporting, and analysis, enabling organizations to deliver intelligence where users want it.

	Integrate and manage all data. Use the enterprise-scale data warehouse platform of Ra Workshop Enterprise to efficiently implement and manage unified storage for all of your business data.
	Reach all users with a comprehensive platform. Ra Workshop has a multi-user system based on groups, roles, access rights not dependent by the operating system allows an easy way to defines access levels and separate different decisional levels in your company.
	Deliver actionable insights to every user. Deliver a rich user experience to everyone through an extensible, open, and embeddable architecture that is optimized for Microsoft Office interoperability.
	Enabling business insights for better, faster, and more relevant decisions.

Server Consolidation

Ra Workshop Enterprise reduces hardware and maintenance costs by providing a flexible server consolidation solution with enterprise-class manageability and performance.

Data Warehousing

Ra Workshop Enterprise provides a comprehensive and scalable data warehouse platform that enables organizations to integrate data into the data warehouse faster, scale and manage growing volumes of data and users, while delivering insights to all users.

Recommendation: We recommend Ra Workshop Enterprise for large and very large windows and doors fabricators that want to automate all production processes for increased productivity.

Database: Ra Workshop is able to compute almost any profile system in the world. This package is delivered with a free database that contains 11 profile systems, each with corresponding hardware (fittings) systems. If you want other profile systems you can insert your own or you can buy profile/fitting systems from us.

RA Workshop CNC Add on

Ra Workshop CNC (Computer Numeric Control) is extra license that activates you features within Ra Workshop Advanced Professional, that will allow you to control your CNC machine, regardless of its type (cutting center, machining center or welding machine).

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