5 Ways XTEN-AV Automates AV Equipment Selection and BOM Creation
Oct 23, 2024 | LAST UPDATED ON Oct 23, 2024 BY VIBHAV SINGH
Selecting the right AV equipment for your projects and accurately creating a Bill of Material can be a daunting task, even for the most experienced AV designer or integrator. Manual research, endless product catalogs, and tedious documentation quickly add to errors, delays, and frustration. Imagine if you could automate these processes, save time, and reduce mistakes. That is where XTEN-AV software comes in.
XTEN-AV leads the way in having a software solution that reduces the complexity of AV equipment selection and simplifies BOM creation to help deliver brilliant audiovisual experiences much more easily. That way, all you have to do with the software is sit back and focus on something that matters designing and delivering projects.
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Key Takeaways
- Learn how XTEN-AV’s advanced specification search features help in AV equipment selection, reducing manual research and minimizing errors.
- Explore the automated BOM creation features that lets you have an updated BOM that is accurate and updated.
- Understand how our AV integration software helps you save time and cost by automating tasks, providing access to a vast library, and ensuring error-free documentation.
How Does XTEN-AV Automate BOM Creation and AV Equipment Selection?
XTEN-AV has multiple automation techniques that facilitate BOM creation and AV equipment selection. We have listed a few below, but trust us, there are many more. Explore our platform more to understand the minute features and enhance your project workflow. Let’s understand how XTEN-AV automates BOM creation and equipment selection:
Explore the Power of Search Sense
Search Sense is one of the game changers, it’s an AI-powered search tool that learns your search selections and adapts its results based on those findings, simplifying the search for the right AV gear for your project. It’s like having a personal assistant that understands what you want and then recommends the most suitable alternative.
This also means that with Search Sense, one can just input his or her project’s specifications, and the system automatically scans a huge database of products to recommend the best fit, saving all the time and effort and thus minimizing the human error risk.
You will make accurate results every time you run the search using the computer tool, and you can spend better time doing other important things for your project, together with access to a huge library of products, with the assurance that you will have the right equipment for your purposes.
Automatic Audio Visual Bill of Material (BOM) Generation
When we talk about the BOM generation, many challenges come to our minds. This could be errors while entering data, issues while keeping track of the changes, and complexity in itemization. To overcome these challenges, XTEN-AV has a feature that automatically generates a bill of material according to your AV diagrams.
XTEN-AV helps AV designers ensure their BOM is complete and accurate, including every necessary component, cable, and accessory. An automated BOM can also help you reduce costs by ensuring accuracy and minimizing cost overruns. This feature has helped most users complete their audio-visual projects on time, without errors, and within the client’s budget.
Design To Documentation Automated With X-VRSE
X-VRSE is an interactive virtual reality platform that allows users to create and visualize their spaces. This includes room renders, device coverage and room aesthetics. This amazing tool by XTEN-AV offers that simplifies your design and documentation process. When you create a design in X-VRSE, it not only facilitates enhanced visualization but also automatically generates a comprehensive set of documents, including line schematics, floor plans, BOM and a lot more. This way, you can skip the hectic tasks of manually creating documents and focus on refining your designs according to your client’s requirements.
What Feature XTEN-AV offer to facilitate Automation for AV Equipment selection and Bill of Material Creation?
Some of the unique features of XTEN-AV to support the automation and help AV integrators or designers make more informed and accurate decisions: Manually selecting AV equipment or creating BOM is always prone to errors what if we tell you XTEN-AV has features that can help you automate this process? Interesting right let’s understand what these features are how they help in BOM creation and AV equipment selection.
Access to a Massive Audio-Visual Product Library of 1.5 million Items
As an AV integrator or designer, we understand the need for a vast product library. XTEN-AV provides you access to 1.5 million products from over 5200 brands. This comprehensive database makes the AV equipment selection easier for all your projects. Here, you can browse and compare from various manufacturers and choose what best suits your client’s requirements.
Now, you won’t have to rely on multiple databases or outdated product information; we ensure our database is regularly updated to ensure ease and accuracy of work. An updated product library helps you create accurate BOMs and ensures your AV designs meet the latest AVIXA standards.
Advanced AV Equipment Specification Search for Precision
Precision is the key to choosing the right AV equipment for your projects. Our advanced specification search feature allows you to filter and search equipment based on specific criteria like power ratings, dimensions, or any other technical details. Through this feature, we help audio-visual professionals save the time and effort required to compare and understand product specifications manually.
We have found that this feature has been useful while working on complex AV projects that have very specific technical requirements. Our users could easily identify the right a/v equipment that meets the client’s needs. This reduces their risk of errors and ensures that the projects are delivered as clients require.
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Conclusion
XTEN-AV is the revolution for AV professionals. They have successfully automated the long-winding process of AV equipment selection and BOM creation by utilizing their advanced features access to a library with 1.5 million pieces to search sophisticated capability for equipment spec, direct automatic BOM generation, and even drag-drop design interface, in short, XTEN-AV makes the designing process shrink considerably, saving considerable amounts of time. These are the features that, once tapped into, enable AV professionals to deliver with much precision, lower the rate of errors, and then focus on what matters most-delivering innovative and effective AV solutions.
BOM creation will be automated, and the AV professional, consequently, will work much more efficiently, effectively, and accurately with XTEN-AV. So, no more of these tired old practices: manual data entry, tedious product research, and costly mistakes; hello to a seamless, intuitive design experience that translates into accurate and comprehensive bills of materials.
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Frequently Asked Questions
AV designers and installers, most of the time, face challenges in managing a high range of equipment choices, ensuring compatibility among components, and compiling the comprehensive BOM. Such processes are time-consuming and more prone to errors when done on their own.
By giving access to a huge product library of 1.5 million items from more than 5,200 brands, XTEN-AV simplifies the task of equipment selection. An entire database this broad allows users to compare and make the best choice for the project all at once.
It’s a good consideration to use XTEN-AV because selecting equipment and developing BOM is time-consuming and could be improved for accuracy; hence, there are really good AV professionals’ considerations for this. That way, the professional can have more elements in design and innovation at work.
Begin creating your AV projects much easier with XTEN-AV. Learn what’s in store for you in terms of automating BOM creation and how it brings power into your design process. Ready to find out? Get started at XTEN-AV today!
