Collaborative Product Development

Prepare and organize multi-discipline systems outside of CAD to expose potential impacts in the overall product definition

• Compose 3D Product updates without the use of CAD on any device
• Realize impact of change through 3D Composition via the web before large engineering spend on developing design prototypes
• Work with multidiscipline mechanical and electronic systems in one application across distributed engineering teams
• Navigate multiCAD digital mockups of any size with excellent performance from any device using a web browser
• Prepare changes in 3D via the web, whereby shortening design cycle time by automatically tracking product updates within the change process

Reduce cost of recalls due to incorrect or missing copy on labels.

• Leverage previous or similar artwork assemblies, utilize screens that allow for editing and comparison of multiple artwork copy and graphic assemblies at the same time.
• Eliminate labeling errors by leveraging a single source of truth for the latest approved copy, graphics and artwork.

A strategic close-loop collaborative change process that clearly communicates change decisions and assignments to all impacted domains.

• Bring organizations together under a single change methodology
• Make Informed Decisions on Value Added Change Proposals
• Effective communication across Global Teams
• Establish Standards and Consistency
• Change Implementation Efficiency Throughout

Reduces development & certification costs by optimizing complex portfolio changes while ensuring effective decision communication & change orchestration

• Define, Coordinate, track and monitor concurrent multi-discipline change activities to reduce time and effort of product changes
• Optimize the change implementation and approval process by clearly communicating change decisions and assignments to all impacted organizations
• Use quantitative and trend analysis to assess critical changes and improve process efficiency and reduce change cycle times

Improve, reuse and reduce costs through secure content classification during the product development.

• Define multi-level libraries for various IP categories
• Organize IP with classification semantic
• Support IP standardization process
• Ease re-use practices with intuitive integration with multi-discipline engineering applications

Shorter time to market with multi discipline collaboration across distributed teams working on a common product structure allowing a model based approach.

• Real-time, concurrent design with Altium Designer across distributed teams with lifecycle and change management.
• Optimizes the design work through managed PCB components and tailored manufacturing information.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders on the multi-discipline product definition allowing a model based approach.
• Share designs directly in 3D PCB with the extended enterprise on any device at any time.

Shorter time to market with secure collaboration across disciplines and distributed detail design teams working on a common product including AutoCAD designs.

• Real-time, safe concurrent design across distributed teams.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders on the multi-discipline product definitions.
• Share drawings within the extended enterprise using a browser available on any device from anywhere at any time.
• Optimize the design work with an immersive development experience including tasks, issues, change management, maturity, and revisions.

Enables CATIA V5 designers to securely collaborate on the model definition across distributed design teams to develop the common product definition.

• Real-time, safe concurrent design across distributed teams using CATIA V5 as well as other CAD tools to build the full product definition.
• Leverage 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA to converge CATIA V5 designs along with other design models on products that require multisystem product definitions.
• Work in the full 3D context of a multiCAD product definition within CATIA V5.
• Share CATIA V5 designs with the extended enterprise using a browser available on any device from anywhere at any time.
• Optimizes the design work with an immersive development experience including tasks, issues, change management, maturity, and revisions.

Shorter time to market with multi discipline collaboration across distributed teams working on a common product definition enabling model based engineering.

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files including projects, schematics, pcb layouts, symbols, footprints, and 3D models.
• Control work-in-process, engineering changes, data, documents, and dynamic configurations
• Give non-engineering personnel direct, task-specific access to current CAD data
• Reduce the possibility of redundant, inaccurate, or out-of-date product information

Securely manage design files from within the design tools while connected to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Shorter time to market with secure collaboration across disciplines and distributed design teams working on a common product structure.

• Share designs within the extended enterprise using a browser available on any device from anywhere at any time.
• Optimizes the design work with an immersive development experience including tasks, issues, change management, maturity, and revisions.

Collaborative Designer for NX enables designers to share design data and enrich NX with embedded productivity and
lifecycle management apps.

Optimized design work with tasks, issues, and change management integrated in SOLIDWORKS.

• Real-time, safe concurrent design across distributed teams.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders in the company on the multidiscipline and multi-CAD product definition.
• Share SOLIDWORKS designs with the extended enterprise using web based technologies available on any device at any time.
• Enables downstream usage of the vast 3DEXPERIENCE portfolio of applications.

Collaborative Designer for Solid Edge enables the sharing of design data and enriches Creo with embedded productivity and lifecycle management apps

Operational efficiencies and improved cycle times are a result of creating and managing products

• Manage the design, engineering, development and sourcing of product with a single, global system
• Reduce over-development
• Target innovation to opportunities identified in the Seasonal Plan
• Collaborate and incorporate the expertise of your product team with the knowledge of your supply chain partners

Collaborate on a configured BOM to reduce or eliminate BOM errors

• Define and optimize the product architecture
• Refine customer and product requirements and assign them to product features in order to drive all product development
• Control excessive proliferation of product or feature variants
• Ensure cross-functional understanding of product features

Optimize reuse while satisfying all possible variants of the product offer.

• Connect the dots from configuration governance to configuration implementation across all domains
• Enterprise configuration is directly available for engineering definition
• Direct access to configuration commands in the authoring applications
• Assign accurate evolution and variant/options effectivity on components against  governed criteria to precisely address intent while maximizing reuse across configurations

Continuous software development supported through the governance of externally managed software in the context of a multi-discipline engineering definition.

• By improving collaboration between design disciplines due to a single view of development across environments, engineers are able store use content more effectively and accelerate innovation.
• Everyone on the development team can quickly see the latest software content. Transparency enables more effective code reviews, knowledge transfer and root cause analysis.
• Integration with requirements, issue and change management enables software development to more efficiently resolve issues, fulfill a change order or complete a task.
• A single platform to capture and refine requirement for both Hardware and software components provide a unified value/business driven software development in context of complete multi-discipline product.

Increase productivity and improve quality through automation of copy content population into artwork.

• Automatically tag text areas to prepare an artwork file for subsequent automatic copy content population reducing the time to populate text areas by up to 90%
• Review visually, in context of the artwork, changes occurring in the platform to ensure the latest approved copy is used in the artwork

Manage issues and defects in complex system-on-chip product hierarchies

• Centralized specification of tool suites and control of tool configuration settings
• Automatic setup of development instances
• Automated setup and maintenance of module and file caches
• Registration of development areas with the enterprise
• Automatically synchronize of product structures and module hierarchies
• Report a defect against a product revision
• Perform hierarchical defect impact analysis
• Track defect resolutions in defect actions

Resolve issues faster by enabling real time collaborative Digital Mockup reviews.

• Resolve issues more quickly using collaborative digital mockup reviews.
• Analyze 3D designs in real-time, highlight critical issues to be investigated using slides, 3D markers, measures, and sections.
• Accurately track management of design issues from identification to resolution.
• Perform interference checks on desired design context to improve quality and to catch errors sooner.

Review and Validate product 3D mock-ups across the value network.

• Analyze 3D design in real-time from anywhere on any device to discover issues earlier in product development cycle.
• Collaborate instantly on digital mockup reviews and pre-assembly analysis.
• Visually check and assess product clashes, contacts or clearances, sharing status with other collaborators using a web browser.
• Instant Issue and CA generation from identified concerns.
• Communicate solutions clearly with annotations & product overloads that explain concerns and illustrate possible solutions.
• Visualize and review Functional Tolerances and Annotations (FT&A), technological attributes, drawings, 2D Layout previews.

Validate virtual prototype & resolve issues faster by enabling formal management of the complete digital mock-up review process.

• Resolve issues more quickly using collaborative digital Mockup reviews on the virtual prototype
• Manage the entire review process involving stakeholders, 3D design, issues, and resolution actions for informed decisions
• Highlight critical points of attention to be investigated using slides, 3D markers, measures, and sections
• Analyze 3D designs in real-time using technical analysis tools to reveal important concerns

Resolve issues faster by enabling real time collaborative digital mockup reviews

• Analyze 3D design in real-time, highlight critical issues to be investigated using slides, 3D markers, measures, and sections
• Resolve issues more quickly using collaborative digital mockup reviews with real-time visibility of all reviewers mark-ups
• Accurately track management of design issues from identification to resolution
• Perform regular interference checks on desired design contexts to improve quality and catching errors sooner

Review and Validate product 3D mock-ups across the value network on any device.

• Analyze 3D designs in real-time from anywhere on any device to discover issues earlier in product development cycles.
• Collaborate instantly on digital mockup reviews and pre-assembly analysis.
• Visually check and assess product clashes, contacts or clearances, sharing status with other collaborators using light web client.
• Instant Issue and CA generation from identified concern.
• Communicate solutions clearly with annotations & product overloads that explain Visualize and review Functional Tolerances and Annotations (FT&A), technological attributes, drawings, 2D Layout previews.

Validate virtual prototypes & resolve issues faster by enabling formal management of the complete digital mock-up review process.

• Resolve issues more quickly using collaborative digital mockup reviews on the virtual prototype
• Manage the entire review process involving people, 3D design, issues, and resolution actions for informed decisions
• Highlight critical issues to be investigated using slides, 3D markers, measures, and sections
• Analyze 3D designs in real-time using technical analysis tools that reveal important details
• Plan and automate product interference computations
• Visually check and assess product clashes, contacts or clearances, sharing status with other collaborators

Collaborate throughout the enterprise from a single definition of engineering parts and bill of materials

• Consolidate part design and related technical document content from multi-discipline tools, into a single EBOM view
• Reduce cost and time-to-market while defining the enterprise EBOM by searching and reusing standard parts
• Build products right the first time by selecting qualified, approved and preferred components
• Reduce proliferation of components and improve component reuse across the enterprise
• Make better, more informed design and engineering decisions by leveraging EBOM and 3D cross highlighting to visually experience a BOM structure in 3D and better plan design changes and/or downstream manufacturing processes

Pursue complex design activities in an isolated environment while controlling when changes are propagated

• Turn innovative ideas to reality by giving designers the freedom to try the design ideas in an isolated environment with the flexibility to decide when to share with others
• Seamlessly maintain lifecycle states, revisions and iterations, relational design and configuration information, between reference and engineering workspaces

Enforce and manage restrictions every time a user attempts to view and access company IP

• All rules or exceptions from the item’s related IP security classifications must authorize access to allow the user access to the secured items
• Users can experience limited access for some items and “silent,” no-show access for others, depending on their classification
• Users are required to declare their current country or physical location as part of the login to properly enforce defined location security rules
• Security rules associated with citizenship, security level, organization affiliation, or location (or country) may change access to items as rule updates are made active

Maintain global alignment between the engineering bill of materials and multiple manufacturing site bill of materials

• Enable product and manufacturing engineers to work concurrently to detect and correct problems before release
• Reduce the communication gap between engineering and manufacturing relative to production builds and their allocated designs
• Run reports with detailed engineering and manufacturing part assignment, supplier preferences, EBOM and MBOM differences between assemblies, and summarized changes over time
• Capture and plan physical end-item units early in the product lifecycle process

Improve new part introduction efficiency and reuse

• Bring industry-leading products to market quicker and more reliably by leveraging consistent company part processes and optimizing part reuse
• Respond rapidly to market opportunities by streamlining new part development for product definition and improvement
• Monitor part development business metrics at the company, project or product level
• Optimize the supply chain by supporting both internally developed and purchased part business models
• Improve communication and collaboration with global development teams comprised of internal and external resources

PLM Collaboration Services for AutoCAD enables enterprise-wide sharing of drawing data and enriches AutoCAD with embedded productivity and lifecycle management apps

• Connect CAD applications to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to share data
• Perform data and lifecycle management from within the CAD applications
• Easily view and explore drawings from a web browser
• View and mark-up drawings in a web browser for improved collaboration
• Contribute drawing data to the complete product definition

Manage conceptual and commercial aspects of products while maximizing reuse of existing IP and assets

• Define and optimize the product architecture
• Refine customer and product requirements and assign them to product features in order to drive all product development
• Control excessive proliferation of product or feature variants
• Ensure cross-functional understanding of product features

Reduce engineering lead time to complete and validate the product Engineering Definition

• Manage the Engineering definition including flexible visualization, mass edition and lifecycle operations
• Drive company part numbering conventions adoption and assign Engineering responsibility across value network
• Validate component interchangeability in engineering, for more flexible manufacturing, procurement & service
• Analyze changes through interactive dashboards
• Ensure communication on accurate Engineering Data thanks to on demand report generation based on templates

Reduce engineering lead time to complete and validate the product Engineering Definition.

• Improve productivity through a smart data organization that fits user's needs
• Categorize IP & navigate on the engineering definition leveraging category filtering capabilities to facilitate access to data
• Foster Multi-Discipline Collaboration and Work Effectively
• Engineering definition management including flexible visualization, mass edition and lifecycle operations
• Drive company part numbering conventions adoption
• Accelerate cross-team collaboration and product development by assigning engineering responsibility across value network
• Efficient configured Engineering Definition maximizing carry over

A structured approach to specification data management creating intelligent information for re-use and change impact analysis

• Deliver a single enterprise-wide definition of technical and business product information that extends beyond document management with structuring data and pre-approved reusable BOM components
• Realize economies of scale across a distributed supply chain through raw material and supplier rationalization
• Execute change order requests holistically with “where used” analysis to provide the right information to the right users at the right time
• View reports tailored to meet the needs of multiple functional areas such as change and BOM management

Project-based defect engineer tracks issues and defects directly connected to design data managed using software and System-on-a-Chip Designer

• Team productivity is increased using an intuitive application for issue tracking and knowledge capture
• Queries and graphs show the state of a design at a glance
• Email discussion threads associated with activities such a finding and fixing defects can be captured in the database, so this knowledge is never lost
• Best practices are enabled by modeling lifecycles using state machines

Shorten design cycle times  with single click-button workspace start-up, hierarchical defect and leverage enterprise collaboration for work-in-progress designs

• Guarantee that all designers are working in the same design environment, by defining design environment, including design tools, work area definition, and data needed for engineering. In turn allowing engineers to click a single button to launch a fully configured environment to begin work.
• Centrally manage defects across hierarchies of IP blocks that constitute complex System on Chip IC designs or Software components
• Automated capability to create Product Structures which represent design data blocks (modules) managed in DesignSync 
• Assess the Impact of a Defect associated with a specific IP release across all Product Hierarchies for which it is included
  Track the activity associated with fixing a defect in a new IP release

Collaboratively manages semiconductor and software designs with module-based techniques for globally dispersed teams

• Connect and manage your entire design chain with a unified Design Data Management system
• Reduce time-to-market by increasing collaboration efficiency for a rapid payback and strong ROI
• Maximize your ability to reuse existing designs and embedded software
• Manage your design hierarchy as part of the design process
• Manage complex data types from a variety of EDA tool vendors

Shorten design cycle times while reducing risks from quality issues with Semiconductor IP Management and reuse.

• Semiconductor IP Management solution delivers the enterprise-level capabilities companies need to make full, efficient use of their IP.
• Easy and secure global cataloging, vetting, and search capabilities across business units and partner and supplier networks as well as including royalty tracking and management.
• Essential IP governance.
• Full synchronization of IP management with issue, defect, and change management processes with work-in-progress environment and 3DEXPERIENCE.

Web-based project collaboration and management solution to share ideas, bug reports, and engineering change information for enhanced team collaboration.

• Significantly boost design productivity for rapid payback and strong ROI: by enabling issues and other project collaboration information to be directly connected to design data vaulted in DesignSync® Data Manager
• Enable collaborative development of complex electronic products between geographically distributed teams: teams easily communicate via email while the thread of discussion is captured and stored as part of the design record
• Avoid costly mistakes with issue tracking and release management: design object version connected to the defect and are part of the history of the design

Enables contributors like subject matter experts to participate in business initiative driven product development (release) and product management (revision) for services industries

• Contribute to a Business Initiative Projects including investments vs. expected revenues
• Contribute to review and approval of Business Initiatives for Product Design (GO/NO GO)
• Contribute to Product Development Projects (for product release) and/or Product Management Projects
• Contribute to review and approval of high level product design for “Manufacture” step (GO/NO GO)

This holistic role enables business initiative driven product development (release) and product management (revision) for services industries

• Plan and work on a Business Initiative Projects including investments vs. expected revenues
• Review and approve Business Initiative Projects for product design (GO/NO GO).
• Plan and work on Product Development Projects (for product release) and/or Product Management Projects (for product revision)
•  Review and approve high level product design for product “Manufacture” (GO/NO GO) and low level product design, for product Launch (GO/NO GO)
• Define “generic/off the shelf” products for all location(s) and language(s)

Make better decisions by accessing robust 3DDashboard content

• Four applications, each with a pre-defined dashboard, can be instantiated in 3DDashboard as one or more widgets.
• Business initiatives metrics provides visibility on business initiative projects and business documents leading to new products or product changes.
• Project item Metrics provides visibility on all date related expected tasks and deliverables during the execution of product related projects.
• Product referential metrics provides visibility by organization, life stage and product line on the product pipeline with its associated specification and reference documents.
• Product catalog metrics provides visibility by organization, life stage and market on the product catalog with its associated sales/marketing documentation.

This holistic role enables business initiative driven product development (release) and product management (revision) for services industries

• Plan and work on a Business Initiative Projects including investments vs. expected revenues
• Review and approve Business Initiative Projects for product design (GO/NO GO)
• Plan and work on Product Development Projects (for product release) and/or Product Management Projects (for product revision)
• Review and approve high level product design for product “Manufacture” (GO/NO GO) and low level product design, for product Launch (GO/NO GO)
• Define “generic/off the shelf” products for all location(s) and language(s)

Ease collaboration around geometrical representations, by creating simplified alternate representations of surrounding components or assemblies.

• Perform space reservation by generating a surface thickness or a security volume around a part.
• Perform space reservation by generating the swept volume of a moving part or vibration volume of a vibrating part.
• Generate lighter, simplified external representations of parts/assemblies, by simplifying meshes.

ENOVIA X-CAD Designer enables designers around the world to securely manage their file based design systems on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

• Provide consistent work-in-process data management across all popular mechanical and electrical design tools
• Allow design stakeholders to visually collaborate around the design information or other information related to the design
• Securely provide design information to suppliers and customers
• Create private and public workspaces for organizing and sharing designs with interla dn external partners
• Upload complex, multi-tiered, design hierarchies into the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform directly from the design tool
• Recursively check out or “open” complex, multi-tiered, designs into the CAD tool or onto disk either from the web or within the design tool
• Apply full revision and version control to all design models as well as synchronized product parts
• Reduce the number of design iterations by enabling enterprise collaboration throughout the design process between electrical and mechanical designers, purchasing, manufacturing, and partners.
• Allow users to utilize their design tool of choice while maintaining collaboration using the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform
• Reduce ramp up production lead times by providing component information to your supply chain earlier in the development process through preliminary bills-of-material (BOMs) that is synchronized from the design BOM