Maintain a single repository for all product data and manage access rights
Taxonomy
Define product taxonomies, categories, and other types of classification
Types
Manage multiple kinds of product metadata such as descriptive, administrative, and rights management
Data Management (7)
Version Control
Tracks versions and changes, including options to check-in and check-out
Alignment
Aligns product data from various sources such as ERP and PLM
Workflows
Include workflows and approvals to define who is responsible for which type of data
Lifecycle
Manages product data across its lifecycle phases such as as-designed, as-planned, and as-built
Document Identification
Allows for easy document identification using a unique document number, version reference or other features.
Workflows
Includes workflows and defines the roles of users who need to create, review and approve each type of documents.
Version Control
Tracks versions and changes in a project, stores, and monitors those online.
Dashboards (4)
Resource-based Reports
Generates resource-based reports on planned and actual time spend on documents to highlight inconsistencies.
Data Visualization and Analysis
Allows data visualization and analysis capabilities
Quality-Based Reports
Generates quality-based reports on the documents to diagnose issues, take remedial action, and/or avoid future complications
Automated Dashboards
Generates automated dashboards and reports on the document information and workflow progress
Collaboration (8)
Change Tracking
Provides an audit log of changes and enables users to revert to a specific version
Simultaneous Access
Allows users to work simultaneously on files.
File Sharing
Allows users to share individual files/folders to persons outside or inside the organization in a secure manner
Commenting on Documents
Allows addition of comments digitally to the document and facilitates maintenance of a comment audit trail in the system
Supplier alignment
Allows users to colalborate with suppliers and partners on product development projects
Communication
Include features such as chat that internal and external users can use to communicate
Development
Helps users and suppliers or partners colalborate on product development activities
Document Management
Allows user to collaborate on creating and managing documents and files
Security (2)
Authorization
Controls information access by only allowing authorized users to search, view and retrieve engineering documents
Updates on Files
Generates automated notifications to inform users during specified events, potential issues, or upon nearing the auto-escalation dates and times.
New Product Introduction (4)
Ideation
Gather and analyse ideas for new products or product enhancements
Time-to-market
Calculate the time to market for new products or improvements to existing products
Cost estimating
Provide users with cost estimation tools for new products or enhancements
Product approval
Deliver workflows that can be used by managers to approve or reject new products and features
CAD (3)
CAD Models
Allows users to create new CAD models or import them from CAD systems
CAD Options
Support CAD options such as computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) or omputer-aided engineering (CAE)
Conversion
Provides functionality to convert CAD models into bills of materials (BOM)
Product Data Management (3)
Product Metadata
Define and manage a taxonomy of product metadata that applies to the entire company
Data Quality
Manages the quality of the product data and ensures its up to date
Version Control
Tracks and audits versions and changes, including options to check-in and check-out
Bill of Materials (4)
BOM management
Provide the ability to deliver product variations such as configure-to-order and engineer-to-order
Multi-level BOM
Bills of materials can be combined, merged, and nested to create multi-level BOMs
BOM Types
Manages BOM types such as manufacturing BOM (mBOM) or engineering BOM (eBOM)
BOM visualization
Provide users with the ability to visualize the BOM in a 3D environment.
Engineering Change Management (3)
ECR Workflows
Deliver workflows to approve or reject engineering change requests (ECR)
Change Management
Allows user to manage changes to product configurations while maintaining the functional and physical attributes of a product throughout its lifecycle.
ECO Management
Create and manage engineering change orders (ECO) based on ECRs or from scratch
Simulation (3)
Virtual Testing
Users can create virtual environments to test product characteristics
Analysis
Analyse multiple simulations to determine product strenghts and weaknesses
Optimization
Simulation results can be used to improve product design and development
Analytics (3)
Reporting
Provide users with the ability to report progress made throughout the product lifecycle.
Costing
Track product costs and costs related to design and development activities
Product Intelligence
Provide insights into product performance from multiple data sources
Quality management (3)
Quality planning
Provide users with the ability to identify all functional needs of the product ahead of time and incorporate this information into each stage in the product development lifecycle
Traceability
Ensures that all quality issues can be traced back to the root causes
Compliance
Ensures compliance of items according to regulatory, safety, and environmental specifications
Integration (4)
ERP
Integrates with manufacturing ERP solutions
MES
Integrates with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
PIM
Integrates with Product Information Management (PIM) software
Maintenance
Integrates with software for maintenance such as Enterprise Resource Management (EAM)
Generative AI (4)
AI Text Summarization
Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.
AI Image-to-Text
Converts images into a textual description, identifying key elements.
AI Text Summarization
Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.
AI Image-to-Text
Converts images into a textual description, identifying key elements.
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