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Buoyed by steady growth and rising customer response to its efforts in quality and productivity, Husco International Inc.'s plant in Waukesha, Wisconsin, embarked on a large-scale capital spending and retooling program. Since management needed to reduce the amount of time it took to draw, change, and manage its documentation handling procedures, it decided to install Cimlinc Inc.'s CIM CAD and CIM CAD 3DD for 2- and 3-dimensional and solids modeling for detailing, drafting, and design. Husco makes hydraulic control valves for industrial and construction equipment. Dwayne Tieman, computer-aided design (CAD) systems administrator, believes the product line is an ideal candidate for CAD. CAD reduced the time needed to draw the complex valve body assemblies, so drawings are quickly available to help accelerate engineering change requests. Tieman is also creating an automatic bill-of-materials generator for these drawings using a function in CIM CAD known as Attributes.