What's New in ENOVIA R2019x

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

Enables visualization, exploration and digital mock-up of multi-CAD product structures within a web-browser

• Visualize, explore and edit multi-CAD product structures within a web-browser
• Easily navigate product structures to visualize designs and related changes
• Create web-based 3D digital mockups and conduct design reviews
• Modify product structures under the governance of a change process
• Implement design changes in accordance with specific product configurations

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

• Establish a unified change processes across domains that clearly communicate change decisions across all impacted organizations
• Establish a set of standards and change procedures for the entire enterprise to follow
• Orchestrate and synchronize change scenarios from product governance to work-in-process activities while maintaining strict controls and traceability
• Support a consistent, systems-based, multi-discipline change process

Improve reuse and reduce costs through secure content classification

• Create multiple library classification systems to fit your company’s business needs, functional uses, and/or products
• Apply standard attributes to the library taxonomy for robust parametric searches and comparisons of classified data based on different usage models
• Classify existing product content or create new product documents
• Search based on a preferred unit-of-measure regardless of how the data was defined

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

Links product development data to a program, enabling real-time monitoring and assessment to improve program performance

• Collaborate on contract deliverables with real time reporting on actual status for assigned tasks
• Easily track deliverables through look-ahead and other reports
• Capture, mitigate and report status on project risks, issues, and opportunities
• Track meetings, decisions, and artifact baselines so that traceability is established for historical reference

Improve performance-to-contract when all requirements drive the team

• Improve proposal performance in terms of needed resources, response schedules and proposal win/loss ratio
• Secure program award fees and profits with reliable contract delivery performance
• Increase customer satisfaction as the result of responsive and reliable issue and correspondence management
• Reduce or eliminate penalties and late fees through better management of contract work items, schedules, deliverables, and all adjustments and changes

Manage design activities and deliverables with automatic synchronization  into a traceable product Design History File

• Full traceability from Design Input to Output  to ensure designs satisfies requirements
• Identified, capture and  mitigate  Hazards
• Single version of the truth between R&D, Quality and Manufacturing

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

Simplify device master record management in a single version of the truth

• A single version of the truth—the latest product information, captured in a centralized environment.  
• Enterprise change control process between parts, specification and technical documents
• Baseline Device Master throughout product evolution
• Consume Device Master Record documents with a simple package and download

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

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

Allow Managers and Designers to use Materials Compliance to make better decisions

• Allow managers to assess product compliance and supplier reporting status
• Make outsourcing decisions based on environmental compliance or supplier responsiveness
• Maximize use of compliant components to create eco-friendly designs
• Track conflict mineral reporting status and rolled up smelter content

Assess and report the compliance of products to material  environmental regulations

• Calculate product compliance to industry and regional regulations from component material declarations
• Manage the collection of of material declarations from your supplier chain
• Determine the impact of design and outsourcing decisions on the compliance of a product
• Perform in-depth analysis to determine root cause of compliance problems
• Report product compliance to your customers using industry standards

Secure enterprise storage and classification of packaging assets  for visibility, control and reuse

• Define a standard classification hierarchy or create multiple classification systems for brand assets to fit your company’s business needs
• Control security access rights to library classification structures to ensure proper access to IP
• Define usage right criteria by asset to control when and where brand equity can be used for a package and/or product
• Manage asset classification requests from users who have requested one or more assets to be added to a library

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

Determine optimal mix of product capabilities to meet market demands and minimize engineering costs

• Reduce product development lifecycle, cost and risk by re-using IP and maximizing standardized technology
• Improve customer satisfaction by ensuring that all requirements are delivered in products and services
• Manage standard product configurations and variants that meet the needs of customer, new markets and product introduction strategies (new SKUs)
• Leverage  product architecture and product configuration to automatically generate the Engineering BOM

Manage the engineering definition of a product from early definition to the final validation and release to production in collaboration with multi-discipline designers.

• Perform simple and efficient Engineering definition while maximizing data reuse
• Accelerate product development process by leveraging quick engineering item responsibility assignment
• Improve user productivity leveraging lean, fitted and intuitive user experience that simplifies work with complex and/or large products
• Reduce errors through efficient and standardized change process across multiple disciplines that improves operational efficiencies

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

Real time, automated, project execution tracking based on deliverables (invisible governance)

• Coordinate scope, schedule and resources to deliver the project on-time and within business constraints
• Govern the project “invisibly” with deliverables-based project management
• Reveal and manage risks based on real-time information

Simple and assisted iterative planning, execution and monitoring for all business users.

• Define project scope, drops and key delivery milestones
• Automatically schedule and optimize project drops to meet Milestones
• Invite team members to collaborate on the work package and project
• Keep up with the progress and work to be done from anywhere with real time notifications
• Access anywhere through Cloud & Mobile experience

Real time, automated, project execution tracking based on deliverables (invisible governance)

• Understand how project deliverables fulfill product portfolio goals
• Leverage in-context task assignments to enable “invisible governance”
• Monitor project tasks, issues and risks based on real-time information
• Manage and share project information with team members on a single, secure platform
• Create and access project data from within familiar design environments or Microsoft applications

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

Visualize Quality Metrics on Product Data Structure in Dynamic Drill-down 3DDashboards

• Ensures companies follow and maintain models quality
• Supports companies in checking the quality of suppliers’ models
• Enables managers to make decisions based on facts

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

Designs new analytic mashups & registrations for use by analysts and others within an organization

• Oversee  the quality process with real time, relevant analytics
• Design mashups for organization specific analytics
• Publish new analytics to communities for improved oversight
• Share and collaborate on analytics with team members for continues improvement
• Combine EDMS and EQMS data models in a single dashboard for one stop control
• Drill down to source data for actionable results

Integrated close-Loop Quality System from non-conformance reports to corrective and preventive actions

• Standardize the development of a closed-loop, holistic approach to CAPA activities and management
• Manage complaint handling processes from identification and product evaluation to closure
• Manage deviation/nonconformance identification, reporting, disposition, and resolution, with explicit documentation to ensure quality standards and compliance
• Manage audit activities and processes from scheduling to execution to ensure quality assurance and quality systems are working as defined and approved

Manage product market submissions, device identification registration and safety events reporting throughout the product lifecycle

• Streamline and automate the regulatory submission planning and dossier management and approval processes
• Manage Device Identification data and submissions
• Manage adverse events from reportability evaluation, submission to closure

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 Iinitiative 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

Facilitate the collection of Material Declaration from Suppliers

• Secure environment for suppliers to view part requests and upload material declarations
• Material declartions can be submitted in industry standard formats such as IPC 1752, JAMP, and Compliance Connect
• Online editor provided for creating detailed material declarations for requested parts
• Uploaded material declarations are automatically imported into Materials Compliance Manager

Create alternate representations of CATIA® 3DEXPERIENCE® parts or assemblies for a reduced memory footprint or to address security concerns

• Generate lighter representations of parts/assemblies by simplifying meshes to a user-selectable level of accuracy
• Generate simplified external representations of parts/assemblies, ensuring confidentiality protection when communicating with suppliers
• Perform space reservation by generating a thickness for a surface or a security volume around a part
• Create a light context by keeping only shapes that are seen from a set of viewpoints

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