Product Configurations

Connects file-based CAD to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for use with the DS application portfolio

• Connect CATIA V5 or SOLIDWORKS Desktop to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Perform lifecycle operations including revise, release and lock/unlock
• Easily navigate product structures to visualize designs and related changes
• Search, explore and select relevant design context from a web browser
• Load design context into CATIA V5 directly from a web-browser
• View and mark-up 3D product designs within a web-based design review
• View FT&A design information from a web-browser
• Connect Microsoft Office Applications to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Leverage file-based CATIA V5 data with 3DEXPERIENCE platform design, simulation, manufacturing and governance apps and processes

Collaborate globally on the single virtual product and solve issues in real-time

• Resolve issues more quickly using collaborative digital mockup reviews on the virtual prototype with immediate visibility of all reviewers’ mark-ups in real-time.
• Accurately track management of designs errors from identification to resolution.
• Turn brainstorming ideas into resolution actions on the associated real-time 3D design.
• Highlight critical issues to be investigated using slides, 3D markers, measures and sections.
• Analyze 3D design in real-time using technical analysis tools that reveal important details.
• Document multiple 3D reviews and validations without affecting the product definition.
•  Access critical design information including functional tolerances & annotations (FT&A), 2D layouts and fasteners.

Realistically simulate and optimize your merchandising strategy in 3D

• Easily create and share 3D virtual shopping experiences
• Visualize and explore brand ideas through the eyes of the consumer
• Improve product positioning according to business performance and best practices
• Share information more effectively for improved decision-making
• Generate clear merchandising instructions for in-store deployment

Review and collaborate around optimized merchandising strategy in 3D

• Easily review and present 3D virtual shopping experiences
• Visualize and explore brand ideas through the eyes of the consumer
• Review and provide feedback on product positioning, business performance and best practices
• Collaborate more effectively with merchandisers for improved decision making

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 while accommodating unique organizational needs
• Make informed decisions by obtaining a full impact assessment of change requests from all impacted organizations
• Clearly communicate change decisions and assignments to all impacted organizations
• Improve product development quality by establishing governance standards for the entire enterprise to adhere to
• Reduce time and cost associated with iterative, error prone change orchestration and synchronization scenarios with intelligent change management rules and automation

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

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

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

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

Manage configurable product data structures to optimize reuse while satisfying all possible variations

• Helps companies with highly configurable products manage a global product designs and bill-of-material containing all possible variations
• Enables designers and engineers to create product configurations for analysis or to validate supported product options
• Applies multiple product unit or product option effectivity expressions directly to the BOM 3DEXPERIENCE design environment
• Synchronizes CATIA® configured 3D designs with configured BOMs providing both configured 3D geometry and configured BOM product views

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 earlier by working on the latest virtual product globally

• Resolve issues more quickly using collaborative digital mockup reviews on the virtual prototype with visibility of all reviewers’ mark-ups in real-time
• Accurately track management of designs errors from identification to resolution
• Turn brainstorming ideas into resolution actions on the associated real-time 3D design
• Highlight critical issues to be investigated using slides, 3D markers, measures and sections

Collaborate globally on a single virtual product and solve issues in real-time

• Resolve issues more quickly using collaborative digital mockup reviews on the virtual prototype with visibility of all reviewers’ mark-ups in real-time
• Accurately track management of designs errors from identification to resolution
• Turn brainstorming ideas into resolution actions on the associated real-time 3D design
• Highlight critical issues to be investigated using slides, 3D markers, measures, and sections

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

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

Enforce intellectual property and export control protections through classifications

• Companies can protect electronic IP in a robust and consistent way as a standard across the entire platform
• Customers, partners, suppliers, and employees can work in one environment while protecting each party’s IP
• All types of data in the platform can be protected with the same approach and allow an audit review of users and access in one environment
• Multiple systems and data stores used previously for IP protection by physical data segregation can be decommissioned

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

A collaborative enterprise approach to copy and artwork design

• Collaboratively edit and approve artwork content on a “just in time” basis
• Seamlessly collaborate with designers from 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, allowing them direct access of copy content and storage of final art right from within Adobe Illustrator
• Easily export and reuse approved copy content into the artwork design process utilizing GS1 industry standards

A structured, enterprise approach to copy and artwork management

• Manage artwork content as structured data in the context of the product hierarchy, providing consistency in the content throughout the brand, between variants and across the product portfolio
• Collaboratively edit, translate and approve artwork content on a “just in time” basis
• Easily export and reuse approved copy data into the artwork design process and supply chain utilizing industry standards
• Manage the entire artwork process with visibility to real-time status of all artwork assets — both artwork content and final artwork

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

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

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

Provide the right offers at the right time to meet the demand & personalization of customers

• Create Exceptional Customer Value
• Define a product portfolio that can rapidly expand to address new markets and changing consumer preferences while minimizing costs and maximizing profits
• React Quickly to Changing Customer Needs
• Improve market share by defining the right product offerings that meet portfolio, market & regulatory needs.
• Drive Corporate Strategy across the Enterprise
• Coordinate portfolio strategy with planning to accelerate “go to market” and reduce risk
• Turn Portfolio Complexity into a Strategic Advantage
• Optimize the portfolio with fewer constraints on product, service and content complexity by defining standard product configurations that drive the entire enterprise
• Confidently Develop a Product Portfolio Plan
• Digital connect the product portfolio definition with the development plan enabling a seamless transition, shortening time to market and maximizing revenue and profits

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

Enterprise Document Control for global collaboration from creation, thru change, to distribution

• Drive consistency with an enterprise change process across all organizations
• Ensure relevance of the documents intended usage with Periodic review
• Training sign-offs with Read and Understand Statements
• Manage distribution of hard copy prints with controlled printing
• Support for electronic signature FDA CFR 21 Part 11

Reduce Product Failures through Customer Co-creation and a Requirements-driven Development Process

• Meet standards and regulations by controlling the requirement management process
• Improve product quality and customer satisfaction with new products that are designed and developed to accurately reflect the voice of the customer
• Reduce development costs and rework by bridging the gaps between product requirements, design and launch
• Improve visibility, team communication and collaboration because teams are using a central repository and common tool to manage product requirements
• Improve overall traceability throughout the evolution of requirements

Deliver System-on-Chip products faster by managing your IP effectively

• Easily catalog semiconductor design data
• Semiconductor taxonomy and attributes provided, as defined by VSIA
• Search libraries based on all parameters associated with its classes with automatic unit of measure conversions
• Participate in peer reviews before content is made available to the rest of the organization
• Subscribe to library updates and additions to stay informed of critical product content changes

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.

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)

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)

Collaborative connected environment to implement software in the context of a multi-discipline product development

• Improve Multi-discipline collaboration
• Enforce Best Practices by incorporating enterprise governance and process flows
• Gain transparency to the latest software content submitted against a software item release for better code reviews, knowledge transfer and root cause analysis.
• Ensure integration and connection to upstream and downstream process, including change requirements management.

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

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