1 Best-in-Class CAD integration
PDM software from CAD software vendors is tightly integrated with design applications such as Autodesk® Inventor®, AutoCAD® Electrical, AutoCAD® Mechanical, and AutoCAD® software. Deep integration makes it easier to manage data associated with your digital prototype from engineering through manufacturing - saving time and ensuring data accuracy.
2 Teamwork and Collaborative Design
Engineering stakeholders can develop a digital prototype without the risk of duplicating
work, or overwriting each others data, thanks to multiuser functionality.Designer's simply check out a design before making modifications, then check it back in when theyre done. Whilst a file is checked out it remains accessible, in read only format, for all other stakeholders. With everyone working together, you can optimise valuable resources, speed projects to completion, and meet tight deadlines.
3 Find Data Quickly
Use a range of methods, such as saved searches and shortcuts, to find and organize data. Using PDM software vastly reduces the time it takes to find information, so you can spend more time designing and less time searching for data.
4 Rapidly Copy and Reuse Data
A huge challenge in an age of data growth is searching, validating and reusing data from previous projects and designs. PDM allows you to save many hours of design time, by simplifying the copyuing and reuse of 3D models and 2D drawing sets. Using PDM it is easy to copy a digital prototype - including all related files and documentation - for use in a new design. Filenames, drawing numbers and Part IDs are all managed automatically. Its also easy to configure the exact files you want to replace, reuse, or copy.
5 Control Design Data Access with Revision Management
Audit and track the revision history of your data files from a single location. Reduce the chance of design and manufacturing errors by securely releasing and tracking files throughout the design cycle, helping make sure that team members access only the correct revision of data. By recording "who, why & when" changes are made, designers teams have a permanent history of the design cycle to reference. Its also easy to take a step back to any previous revision and make making it the current version.
6 Simple Administration and Configuration
PDM provides tools to manage your PDM server, so you experience maximum uptime.
Intuitive administrative tools make server management easy for even those with minimal IT knowledge.
7 Manage Data sharing with All Engineering and Commercial Stakeholders
With PDM you can share engineering design data with the shop floor via a web client
and expose design related information to the extended enterprise by publishing to Microsoft® SharePoint®. MS Office add-ins allow non-engineering teams to add useful data to meaningful data sets from within the MS Office application and without any knowledge of CAD or PDM.
8 Scalability for Multi-sites and Large Workgroups
Multi-site functionality, available with PDM enables companies to synchronize design data
among distributed workgroups, extending the reach of the digital prototype to the entire organisations which may span continents and time zones.
9 Automated Release and Change Processes
Manual processes for release and change can lead to design project delays and shop-floor errors.PDM software gives design teams the choice of standard or configurable processes for release and engineering change order management, helping them avoid costly mistakes and remove process bottlenecks associated with ECRs, ECOs and ECNs.
10 Coexist and Exchange Data with Enterprise Business Systems
Take full advantage of the advanced functionality in PDM software with the powerful tools to manage your Bill of Materials (BOMs) and promote earlier collaboration by exchanging data with manufacturing business systems. BOMs should be generated and owned by Engineers using engineering tools and then presented to ERP for commercial benefit. PDM is the best tool for the job for BOM management. Integration with other business systems is now easier than ever before.
Symetri is a Digital Design Consultancy and a leading provider of PDM solutions for managing AutoCAD, Inventor and Solidworks CAD data. We specialise in BOM creation and BOM management, including integrating your BOMs with ERP and other databases or business systems.
Data Management is an area which can generates significant efficiency savings, eliminating waste, rework and errors, through simplication and automation.
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