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Moses W.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/11/2020

"Great Tool, Minor challenges"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Duro?

Creating and referencing a Bill of Materials is intuitive. Great to also have photos and documentation available when reviewing parts. Interface is also easy to read. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Duro?

Would be nice to be able to filter between Top Level, Sub-Assy and Individual components, would simplify searching for a specific items and not have to scroll through entire list. Ability to enlarge an image as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Joel I.

Welding Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/27/2020

"What Small companies need for PLM"

5/5

What do you like best about Duro?

The duro platform is light weight and feature rich enough without overwhelming or bogging down the process. We have used it for our R&D engineering team and it satisfy the chasm of absolute nothing and very heavy and unweidly PLM/PDM systems meant for large enterprises.

We find the solidworks integration and webapp workflow both do wonders to speed up our processes and provide the necessary structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Duro?

At this moment I cannot think of anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Duro:

If you are a small engineering firm and you have no PLM solution. Use Duro or similar now, the switching cost and headaches as the organziation get bigger are never worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Duro solving and how is that benefiting you?

Duro helps our engineering team provide the necessary structure for lifecycle management. Being a startup means there are often new discoveries and pivots and the traditional philosophy of letting engineers manage their own work product becomes inefficient as we scaled. Duro gave us a single repository, naming schema and workflows to ensure we don't redevelop, lose or send the wrong part out for quote. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Steve B.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/22/2020

"By far the most bang for your buck PLM on the market!"

5/5

What do you like best about Duro?

Duro is intuitive and easy to use. We were able to get up and running within just a few days. Duro makes managing our product so easy allowing our engineers to focus on what they do best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Duro?

I am yet to find something that I am unsatisfied with. For the price, you cannot find a better PLM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Duro solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have been able to quickly transition from a spreadsheet to a full-featured PLM within days. Sometimes this can take weeks or even months. A startup of our size is usually stuck on spreadsheets for much longer, but the price point of Duro makes the transition much more achievable at a much earlier stage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jon K.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/21/2020

"Simple and Useful Interface"

4/5

What do you like best about Duro?

Simple Interface, modern look and easy to use. I like the ability to add pictures to items and add multiple sources to those items. If a manufacturer part number is recognized by Duro it will auto populates the sourcing fields for you which is a huge time saver for entering component info. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Duro?

Limits to data being entered into system, (no duplicate descriptions) , No way to reject an ECO and make changes that were discovered during the review (New ECO needs created). Some learning curve needed to understand workflows (not intuitive enough) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Duro:

If you are starting out and need a solution to dictate your product structure this is the tool to use. If you already have existing product structure, part numbers and rev scheme it becomes more difficult. However, support has been very helpful in navigating our specific issues and still able to provide a solution for our specific company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Duro solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeps us more organized than our google sheet method and has a built in process to make changes to parts in the database. We seem to have less error when communicating to our CM's which gets us to market quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Joshua M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/14/2020

"Good, but could be better"

4/5

What do you like best about Duro?

It is available as a browser app, so I can work from anywhere.

It automatically searches for parts data and prices when I enter the MPN.

There is a history of changes and can always look at previous versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Duro?

BOMs are not exported in a very nice format and are not as customizable as I'd like.

It does not have a PDF reader for part drawings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Consumer Electronics

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/16/2020

"An Electrical Engineers Perspective On Using Duro"

4/5

What do you like best about Duro?

1) Bill of material management. It is a great system to use as a vault of truth for bill of materials/builds. It proves itself exceptionally useful for cross collaboration between teams (specifically small teams) for quoting and reviewing designs.

2) Status flags. Having status/error flags to indicate incomplete quotes has been very helpful for tracking down items in our BOM that we are either missing quotes or have not yet been updated.

3) Auto generating new CPNs for parts/components. We have many custom parts and off the shelf parts in our build. I was expecting most part generation to be entirely manual. However, the Duro database search feature for adding new parts (From Digikey or McMaster) automatically is probably one of my favorite features. Once I started using this feature I was able to be more diligent on keeping the database updated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Duro?

1) It is another database of sorts that needs to be managed. Our team goes through periods where it is very accurate and periods where it falls behind. Unless you have someone dedicated to keeping it updated it will just be another "item" that needs to be managed. This can feel like a chore at times, but ultimately I think it's a necessary step for any growing company doing product development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Duro solving and how is that benefiting you?

Duro was incredibly helpful to get our team organized BOMs that focus on product/part hierarchy. This made reviewing existing designs and searching for high cost items very very easy. I was able to save our company about $50k, by re-designing parts and finding alternative suppliers, within the first month of using Duro. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Julia M.

Operations Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/23/2020

"Excellent Product for Startups"

5/5

What do you like best about Duro?

I like how simple the GUI is and how intuitive the software is our team picked it up in a matter of minutes. I also really enjoy how responsive the software team is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Duro?

I dislike that there is not an inventory system yet - I know they are working hard to get this completed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mark Dominic Y.

Mechanical Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/21/2020

"Duro is a great cloud PDM tool"

4/5

What do you like best about Duro?

My favorite Duro feature is the automated supply chain insight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Duro?

My only complaint is how frequently I have to login. It would be nice to have sessions persist for a longer period of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Duro:

Duro shines when used with a plugin in your engineering CAD environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Duro solving and how is that benefiting you?

Duro has helped us solve the flow of information between our design and production teams. It allows our engineers to put detailed designs in a place where our product managers can directly handle sourcing and BOM costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Paul K.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/29/2020

"Duro strikes a great balance between achieving fast results and having the depth of tools to scale"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Duro?

having one place of truth for mfg database is important. being able to have different users able to access this database from anywhere quickly and easily (our team is US and Asia based) without special software is a huge benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Duro?

not much, so far it has met all of our needs. We have even been able to have feature requests achieved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Duro:

If you are looking for an easy to adopt PLM tool that can grow as your organization grows, Duro deserves a serious look Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Duro solving and how is that benefiting you?

Shared one place of truth mfg database is key. having ability to manage and export clear BOM's for quoting and releasing is simplified Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ken T.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/29/2020

"Great support!"

5/5

What do you like best about Duro?

The create part from a part number is MAGICAL! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Duro?

Some of the UI can be a bit unintuitive. Some more FAQs and tutorials would help. Duro makes up for it by having great support staff! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.