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Designing An Operating Room With A Product Configurator

3D Product Configurators Help Healthcare Teams Configure Equipment and Design Room Layouts

Successfully designing an operating room layout requires properly maximizing space with placement and flow to ensure efficiency and safety.

Learn how Powertrak customers in the healthcare industry use 3D configurations with virtual reality experiences to demonstrate to healthcare teams how flexible the equipment looks and fits in the footprint. 

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Powertrak Floor Space Planning with Auto-fill Feature

Save Time Creating a 3D Floor Plan with Wall and Flooring Auto-fill Feature

Because space planning is fluid and an everchanging process, it's crucial from a productivity standpoint for sales reps to build and present multiple design options with ease, speed, and accuracy!

One FSP feature that is easy-to-use and saves a ton of time is the auto-fill feature. It enables users to place a product, such as flooring, into the room and quickly extend it to the desired dimension.

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Understanding Attachment Points in a Visual Product Configurator

The linchpin to a successful interactive, drag-and-drop, visual product configurator is its rules-based attachment point feature. In a nutshell, attachment points are acceptable locations where two products can connect or join together. Think of it as snapping together two LEGO pieces – peg must fit into hole. So, as you can imagine, when it comes to attaching two or more products together, accuracy and precision are paramount to the final design.

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Showcase Configured Surgical Suites with Virtual Reality

Visually Design and Virtually Explore a Surgical Suite with Powertrak

Now that the surgical suite (operating room) is configured with Powertrak 3D Product Configurator, how do you get management and/or stakeholders to approve, endorse, and move forward with the layout design.

Powertrak helps users to showcase the design in three ways: (1) Export in various image formats; (2) Interactively demonstrate in the Powertrak Configurator application; (3) Don a HTC Vive headset to provide a virtual reality experience.

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Using LinkedIn for Sales: Tips from the Experts

Target Leads With LinkedIn

LinkedIn has more than 332 million users around the world and is the largest professional network on the Internet. Although you might think of LinkedIn in terms of professional networking, it's also invaluable for sales. Savvy sales professionals know how to use LinkedIn to find and connect with thousands of potential leads.

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Top 10 Sales Videos To Educate and Motivate Your Team

When you run your sales meeting, do you sometimes feel like you’re in the movie “Groundhog Day?” If you have a sense of déjà vu as you discuss how to boost sales and increase productivity it’s time to get out of your repetitive routine. Make your next sales meeting more powerful by incorporating “how to” sales videos that teach best practices or videos that help motivate your team.

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Middle Atlantic Products Unveils Its 2D Rack Configurator at CEDIA 2014

2D Rack Configurator Powered by Powertrak

We’re excited to join Middle Atlantic Products as the company unveils its new, interactive 2D Rack Configurator at CEDIA EXPO in Denver, CO. Visit us in Middle Atlantic Products’ booth (330) today to witness the unveiling of its new product quoting and ordering solution, powered by Powertrak 2D Product Configurator.

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The Manufacturing Skills Gap and Strategies to Overcome It

Help Wanted: Strategies to Fill the Manufacturing Skills Gap

Manufacturing is a crucial component of the U.S. economy, accounting for 12.5 percent of GDP, but 80 percent of manufacturers struggle to find enough workers with the necessary skills. While a sales team is already out giving tailored quotes with a product configurator, managers don’t want their pipeline to slow down because they’re lacking enough tool and die makers behind the scenes. Companies with employee shortages may end up facing longer lag times for product delivery and risk losing business to the competition.

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5 Selling Tactics that Turn Quotes into Sales

Henry Ford once said, “The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.” As your sales team configures quotes for customers, you want them to remember Ford’s quote. Your team should focus on pinpointing solutions to customers’ problems as cost effectively as possible.

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How to Remove the “First Things First” Screen in Dynamics CRM 2013

Troubleshoot: Disabling the “First Things First” Screen

In Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, there seems to be a bug with the First Things First pop-up window. After clicking the “don’t show me this again” checkbox, the window will appear the next time I log in. I have found that no matter how many times I check the box, the pop-up window continues to reappear.

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Troubleshooting The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Error: ID1073

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Error – sitting behind a hardware load balancer

ID1073: A CryptographicException occurred when attempting to decrypt the cookie using the ProtectedData API (see inner exception for details). If you are using IIS 7.5, this could be due to the loadUserProfile setting on the Application Pool being set to false.

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Powertrak 2D and 3D Product Configurator FAQs

This post answers the most frequently asked questions about Powertrak’s advanced product configuration feature called Interactive 2D/3D Designer. Continue reading to discover who’s the best candidate to use 2D or 3D Product Configurator, what are the art and product data requirements, acceptable image file formats, or where to obtain art assets, and integration questions.

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Using a custom identity to run the CRM Application Pool

Install Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013: Using A Custom Identity To Run The CRM Application Pool

Abstract: I have a temporary fix to an error received when using a custom identity to run the Microsoft Dynamics CRM application pool. If you receive the error: Exception message: Could not find entry for server: $ With SearchFilter: samAccountName, continue to read how I resolved this issue, consider this a band aid solution until Microsoft gets back to me.

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How to Build a Sales Quote in CRM Software

Here is an easy step-by-step on how to build a customized sales quote using Powertrak Product Configurator. Remember, Powertrak Product Configurator is a configure-price-quote solution that enables customers, partners, and your sales staff to configure simple or complex orders and build quotes on any browser-enabled device.

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