CAD Outsourcing Holiday Time in India

We like it when you have holidays. Why? Because then our workload eases off a bit, and we have time to breathe, eat and sleep (which are usually luxuries for us).

If any customers are working at our office, we take them on trips to nearby holiday areas. We don’t stay late, we work without stress, we don’t gulp our coffee.

In short, when you have holidays, we enjoy time off too.

This probably holds good for many of the CAD companies in India doing outsourced CAD work.

Maybe all the CAD drafting companies here should go on a group holiday… think of the discounts we could get…

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Why It Sucks to Outsource CAD

by Lucky Balaraman, Executive Director, The Magnum Group

It’s better to have a holistic picture of what’s going on in the CAD outsourcing area before you jump into it. Here are some in-your-face factoids:

Because it’s a pain outsourcing CAD to a strange foreigner…

You’re going to get into an intimate relationship with a person from another culture. Will he be polite, will he slap you around? Does he have body odor? Does he spit in public? Will your parents like him? Does he have table manners? Does he dress like a tramp? Does he have aligned teeth? Does he pick his nose in public? Will he return your calls?

If it fails, you look like an ass

Everyone can outsource CAD but you blew it. Is something wrong with you? Plus you mentioned your failure to a friend and he’s broadcast it all over town. What will people think now? Added to that, your friend succeeded in outsourcing his CAD to India in 2002! That kind of establishes that you’re stupid compared to him. Will any customers approach you now?

If it fails, you would have spent a ton of scarce time for nothing…

36 hours down the drain. You could have done the CAD drawings yourself in that time. Or spent it bonding with your largest customer. Or just pondered how to improve your latest design. Or tried to get an appointment with that large new prospect (after chatting up the receptionist). Or put your life back together at Starbucks.

You’re ruining your county’s economy by outsourcing CAD

All the jobs are moving to less expensive economies. Drafters in your country are increasingly unemployed. Why contribute to that? Also, the CAD drafters working in your office are going to be mightily ticked off when you start to outsource some of your CAD requirements. What’ll they think of you? They will leave for more secure employment pronto. Then you’ll be forced to outsource, i.e., to eat crow.

WHY IT DOESN’T SUCK TO OUTSOURCE CAD

You pay per use. When there’s no work to do, there’s no expense.

If you had your own full-time staff, you would have to pay them even during slack periods.

Your cost is at least 30% less

Let’s say you pay an in-house drafter $2000 per month. Add-on vacation pay, disability insurance, workman’s compensation, social security, cost of the workstation, cost of software, cost of space taken by the workstation, cost of electricity, cost of parking spaces plus any other benefits you might be giving a drafter and you’re nearer $3,000 a month. Outsource at $12 an hour for 160 hours (1 month) and your cost is $1,920. You save $1000 a month on a $3,000 tab, i.e. 33%.

You grow faster

The above savings can be deployed for growth: it can fund lunches with prospects, Christmas presents for clients, networking events, media and online advertising, association fees, et al.

You are more competitive

Because of your higher margins, you can cut your prices when you need to for winning contracts. You’re a lean, mean design machine that your rivals are seriously concerned about.

You have less administrative hassle

You don’t have to worry about filling out all those forms for your employees (like W2s), your facilities department will have fewer hardware maintenance headaches, your accounts department will see a reduction in payroll processing costs and your HRD department will not have to look under every rock in the State and spend a packet in ads to find new drafters when you need them.

These are the facts. NOW YOU DECIDE WHETHER TO OUTSOURCE YOUR CAD OR NOT.

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CAD Drafting Price Estimate Tool

Want an estimate of what it will cost you to get your CAD drawings done? No more looking up tables and multiplying… we now have an online tool that does it in an instant.

It’s on our Prices Page, and it’s purpose is to help you get CAD drafting estimates FAST… and by “fast” we mean immediately! Please take it for a spin.

We’ll of course be enhancing it as time goes by, just like we do all the pages of our web site…

We have further tools planned for some of the other pages… we’re in the process of getting them programmed. Incidentally, this one was designed by a brilliant programmer in Slovakia (who is currently moving to Australia…)

Please let us know through the “comments” link if there are any ways in which we can make the “Prices” page more useful to you. We will extend a special discount to anyone whose ideas we implement!

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