What's New in ENOVIA R2021x

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

Provides software engineering tools, API, documentation and examples supporting development of new 3DEXPERIENCE® apps

• Customize the underlying data schema and rules if unique business processes are needed for end user acceptance
• Benefit from a seamless user interface for custom apps inserted directly in existing user interface frames
• Use best-of-breed modeler techniques to ensure customer intellectual property integrity across the various product development disciplines
• Use development tools leveraging the 3DEXPERIENCE platform architecture

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

A combined role which includes Business Innovation and Industry Innovation roles

• Connect everyone to the innovation process.
• Data-driven decisions. 3DDashboard delivers the real-time intelligence needed to monitor everything that matters to a business.
• Share files securely on the cloud.
• Instantly collaborate and share ideas in 3D.
• Secure access to all product content
• Collaborative IP management to enable collaboration with shared content.
• Data navigation on any product development.
• Immersive business intelligence (B.I. Essentials) highlights key performance indicators (KPI) directly on the 3D product view.

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

Reduce product development cycle time and maximize innovation across the value network.

• Collaborate on structured industrial product development process.
• Work more effectively with streamlined and secured content access.
• Enable real-time concurrent collaboration, enhance decision-making and reach design maturity faster.
• Always work with up-to-date information and related data to reduce the likelihood of errors.
• Intuitively organize, view and track individual and shared issues, tasks, and change actions from creation through completion.
• Access content anywhere on any device with browser-based 3D visualization and geometric analysis tools for 3D comparison, measurements and sectioning.

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

Create a seasonal plan to strategically target product opportunities and minimize wasteful over-development ensuring maximum profit potential

• Manage the planning, design, engineering, development, and sourcing of product with a single, global system
• Reduce over-development and provide strategic targets for innovation using placeholders in the line assortment
• Collaborate and incorporate the expertise of your product team and partners early in the planning process
• Track and schedule key milestones, effectively manage your resources ensuring the timely delivery of products

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.

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

Import ACIS models to support digital continuity across company boundaries including partners and suppliers.

• Provide a tool for customers migrating away from AutoCAD modeler.
• Incorporate accurate model representations from external data sources in global business processes.
• Improve decision making by capitalizing on data from any number of touch points globally.
• Increase performance throughput  by removing the added step of converting meshes to BRep with AutoCAD Civil3D.

Convert ACIS data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Enable 3DEXPERIENCE collaboration with files originally created with the ACIS modeler format
• Import and export the ACIS files to and from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Migrate from ACIS-modeler based applications to 3DEXPERIENCE applications

Import native designs to support digital continuity across company boundaries including partners and suppliers.

• Provide a tool for customers migrating away from AutoCAD modeler.
• Incorporate accurate model representations from external data sources in global business processes.
• Improve decision making by capitalizing on data from any number of touch points globally.
• Increase performance throughput  by removing the added step of converting meshes to BRep with AutoCAD Civil3D.

Convert AutoCAD data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Enables users to collaborate on AutoCAD application files by importing them into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Enables customers to migrate from AutoCAD to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Enable users to utilize COLLADA data including graphics, animation, kinematics, physics, and shade effect in the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform.

• Easy transition from COLLADA generated formatted files to 3DEXPERIENCE 3D models.
• Newly created designs may be used for clash interference detection.
• Calculate volume and area of imported models as part of the overall product/simulation.

Import Creo Parametric and Pro/ENGINEER designs to support digital continuity across company boundaries including partners and suppliers.

• Utilize accurate model representations from external data sources  in global business processes.
• Improve decision making by capitalizing on data from any number of touch points globally and concentrate on obtaining best in class suppliers and partners.
• Provide a tool for customers migrating away from PTC modelers.

Convert Creo and Pro/ENGINEER data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Enables users to collaborate on CREO and Pro/ENGINEER application files by importing them into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Enables customers to migrate from CREO or Pro/ENGINEER to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Enable users to utilize high fidelity FBX formatted data in the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform.

• Utilize FBX  models within the 3DEXPERIENCE  platform
• Easy transition from FBX formats to 3DEXPERIENCE  3D high fidelity models
• Calculate volume and area of imported models as part of the overall product/simulation

Utilize high fidelity FBX formatted data within the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform.

• Utilize FBX models within the 3DEXPERIENCE  platform as new physical products.
• Easy transition from FBX formats to 3DEXPERIENCE  3D high fidelity models.
• Calculate volume and area of imported models as part of the overall product/simulation.

Supports Data exchange between ICEM Surf and CATIA.

• Read / Write native ICEM Surf native data files (*.icem) within the 3DExperience platform.
• Supports Batch CATUtil for multiple file configurations.

Supports Data exchange between ICEM Surf and CATIA.

• Read / Write native ICEM Surf native data files (*.icem) within the 3DExperience platform.
• Supports Batch CATUtil for multiple file configurations.

Import IFC designs to support digital continuity across company boundaries including partners and suppliers.

• Collaborate with partners using IFC – a standard and open format (ISO 16739:2013).
• Make partner contributions available across the company for global business processes.
• Use IFC data when designing in context 3DEXPERIENCE applications.
• Import IFC data into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to hold design reviews for better product quality.

Convert IFC data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Collaborate with partners using IFC – a standard and open format (ISO 16739:2013)
• Make partner contributions available across the company for global business processes
• Use IFC data when design in context 3DEXPERIENCE applications
• Import IFC data into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to hold design reviews for better product quality

Import Inventor designs to support digital continuity across company boundaries including partners and suppliers.

• Provide a smooth transition of Inventor models for consumption into the 3DEXPERIENCE environment.
• Utilize accurate model representations from external data sources  in global business processes.
• Improve decision making by capitalizing on data from any number of touch points globally and concentrate on obtaining best in class suppliers and partners.
• Provide a migration tool for customers moving away from Inventor modelers.

Convert Inventor data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Enables users to collaborate on INVENTOR application files by importing them into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Enables customers to migrate from INVENTOR to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Converter for JT enables users to import JT file format

• Utilize models from any CAD application as new products within 3DEXPERIENCE
• Transition any legacy CAD data, that has JT format available, into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform as active participating models.
• Import models as exact geometry or tessellated models depending on downstream utilization 

Import JT models to support digital continuity across company boundaries including partners and suppliers.

• Provide a smooth transition of JT models for consumption into the 3DEXPERIENCE environment.
• Utilize accurate model representations from external data sources  in global business processes.
• Improve decision making by capitalizing on data from any number of touch points globally and concentrate on obtaining best in class suppliers and partners.
• Provide a tool for customers migrating away from legacy modelers.

Enables users to reuse or migrate MicroStation application data in the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform

• Provide a smooth transition of MicroStation models for consumption  into the 3DEXPERIENCE environment
• Utilize MicroStation data by migrating data from MicroStation format on an as needed basis into the 3DEXPERINECE platform
• Import MicroStation files with exact data for collaborative design extension or as tessellated models for downstream visualization

Import MicroStation designs to support digital continuity across company boundaries including partners and suppliers.

• Provide a smooth transition of MicroStation models for consumption into the 3DEXPERIENCE environment.
• Utilize accurate model representations from external data sources  in global business processes.
• Improve decision making by capitalizing on data from any number of touch points globally and concentrate on obtaining best in class suppliers and partners.
• Provide a tool for customers migrating away from MicroStation modelers.

Import native designs to support digital continuity across company boundaries including partners and suppliers.

• Transition from NX modeling to 3DEXPERIENCE
• Provide a tool for customers migrating from NX modelers
• Incorporate accurate model representations from NX models without loss of data accuracy in global business processes
• Improve decision making by capitalizing on data from any number of touch points globally

Convert NX data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Enables users to collaborate on NX application files by importing them into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Enables customers to migrate from NX to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Converter for OBJ enables users to reuse or migrate .obj formatted data files in the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform.

• Combines all meshes from input file into single new 3DEXPERIENCE model
• Convert to tessellated geometry representation

Import designs of OBJ format to support digital continuity across company boundaries including partners and suppliers.

• Provide a smooth transition of OBJ formatted design files for consumption into the 3DEXPERIENCE environment.
• Utilize tessellated model representations from OBJ files in global business processes.
• Improve decision making by capitalizing on data from any number of touch points globally and concentrate on obtaining best in class suppliers and partners.

Import Parasolid designs to support digital continuity across company boundaries including partners and suppliers.

• Provide a smooth transition of Parasolid models for consumption into the 3DEXPERIENCE environment.
• Utilize tessellated or exact model representations from external data sources  in global business processes.
• Improve decision making by capitalizing on data from any number of touch points globally and concentrate on obtaining best in class suppliers and partners.
• Provide a tool for customers migrating away from Parasolid modelers.

Convert Parasolid data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• The supported Parasolid file types are “x_t” and “x_b”
• Enables users to collaborate on Parasolid modeler files by importing them into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Enables customers to migrate from Parasolid to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Import Revit designs to support digital continuity across company boundaries including partners and suppliers.

• Easy transition from Revit formats to 3DEXPERIENCE 3D high fidelity models.
• Calculate volume and area of imported models as part of the overall product/simulation.
• Utilize Revit models within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Converter for Rhinoceros(Rhino) enables users to import RHINO .3DM files

• Import Rhino .3DM files as new products within 3DEXPERIENCE
• Import models as exact geometry or tessellated models depending on downstream utilization
• Calculate volume and mass properties on the new designs

Import Rhinoceros designs to support digital continuity across company boundaries including partners and suppliers.

• Provide a smooth transition of Rhinoceros models for consumption into the 3DEXPERIENCE environment.
• Utilize accurate model representations from external data sources  in global.
• Improve decision making by capitalizing on data from any number of touch points globally and concentrate on obtaining best in class suppliers and partners.

Import and export STEP files to support digital continuity across company boundaries including partners and suppliers.

• Incorporate accurate model representations from external data sources in global business processes.
• Improve decision making by capitalizing on data from any number of touch points globally.
• 3DEXPERIENCE nodes may be exported to STEP for exchange and archive purposes.

Reuse, Share, and Migrate STEP Data between CAD Systems and the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform

• Collaborate with partners using STEP – a standard and open format (ISO 10303)
• Make partner contributions available across the company for global business processes
• Use STEP data to “design in context” with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Archive 3DEXPERIENCE designs in STEP format

Import Solid Edge designs to support digital continuity across company boundaries including partners and suppliers.

• Provide a smooth transition of Solid Edge models for consumption into the 3DEXPERIENCE environment.
• Utilize accurate model representations from external data sources  in global business processes.
• Improve decision making by capitalizing on data from any number of touch points globally and concentrate on obtaining best in class suppliers and partners.
• Provide a migration tool for customers moving away from Solid Edge modeler.

Convert SolidEdge data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Enables users to collaborate on Solid Edge application files by importing them into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Enables customers to migrate from NX to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Import XMplant files to support digital continuity across company boundaries including partners and suppliers.

• Use accurate model representations from external data sources  in global business processes.
• Improve decision making by capitalizing on data from any number of touch points globally and concentrate on obtaining best in class suppliers and partners.

Convert XMpLant data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Migrate and reuse data from various systems that support the XMpLant file format
• Consolidate data from multiple sources to use in design review analysis and interference detection
• Incorporate XMpLant® data into 3DEXPERIENCE applications for designing and simulating a 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

Customize the data models and behavior of 3DEXPERIENCE® platform applications

• Enrich data models with a set of attributes
• Introduce customer specific taxonomy
• Introduce uniqueness keys

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 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

Reduce Engineering data exchanges cycle time and streamline the collaboration throughout the value network.

• Navigate the configured 3D definition of the product, including search and volume query.
• Export and import engineering data with authoring delegation.
• Automate import/export operations through batches.
• Manage coexistence with legacy systems.
• Manage engineering data life-cycle.

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

Directly update the underlying data schema and business rules for a 3DEXPERIENCE® implementation

• Customize the underlying data schema and rules if unique business processes are needed for end user acceptance
• Implement unique capabilities without compromising the ability to upgrade to newer releases

Engineering Adapter for X-PDM enbales bi-directional data exchange between the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform and a non-DS PDM system

• Exchange data using a single adapter from 3DEXPERIENCE applications for designing and simulating a product and its manufacturing processes with engineering data from other enterprise systems
• Consolidate and organize 3DEXPERIENCE digital mockup data with similar data from other PDM systems
• Consolidate and organize 3DEXPERIENCE requirements with requirements from others PDM/PLM systems
• Export the DELMIA manufacturing bill-of-material process data to an ERP system

Access external data sources and represent it in the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform as if it is native ENOVIA® data

• Access data from multiple systems through a single interface
• Extend legacy systems with additional process and data management capabilities that are available in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Integrate to multiple systems by transferring 3DEXPERIENCE platform data based on triggers that are executed during business processes
• Migrate legacy data very quickly and efficiently

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

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

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

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

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

Deliverables-based project management links product or service data to a project, enabling real-time monitoring and assessment to improve project performance.

• Provide real-time access to project pipelines for rapid analysis and decision making.
• Increase resource utilization and reduce conflicts between project managers and functional group managers.
• Drive phased-based decision making processes using best-in-class process templates, with predefined phases, gates and milestones.
• Improve decisions by tracking real-time progress on project KPIs including deliverables, risks, issues, ....
• Improve execution and oversight of complex product development activities by decomposing projects into smaller manageable projects.

Reduce resource and overall project execution costs by enabling lean optimized team planning.

• Planning for All
• Mobile, inclusive and easy to use planning experience, for any user to plan their work and contribute to the team plan
• Collaborative Planning in Real Time
• Real time project execution KPI’s available to all collaborators
• Schedule Optimizer
• Automatic project plan optimization based on user updates and changes
• Immersive and Seamless Task Integration
• Assigned tasks and associated deliverables available directly from within the CAD application

Utilize actionable project intelligence for more effective decision making, prioritization and on-time delivery.

• Coordinate project scope, schedule and resources to ensure on-time delivery.
• Execute projects across the value network more effectively with a centralized plan that includes actionable analytics for more effective decision-making and prioritization.
• Reduce new product development costs leveraging built-in intelligence to assign project resources, monitor tasks and identify risks.

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

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

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

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

More effectively leverage information and IP for decision making

• Generate reports formatted in PDF, PostScript, Text, XML or HTML for easy publishing, sharing and printing
• Visualize trends in large volumes of 3DEXPERIENCE data using charts or formatted tables
• Fulfill unique business needs without requiring IT to make expensive customizations
• View reports immediately or send them by email, FTP upload or JMS queue

Enables all project stakeholders to capture and manage systems specification along systems lifecycle.

• Meet standards and regulations by controlling the requirement management process.
• Reduce development costs and rework by bridging the gaps between product requirements, design and launch.
• Improve visibility, team communication and collaboration by sharing a central repository and common tool to manage product requirements.
• Improve overall quality and traceability throughout the evolution of requirements.

Extend DesignSync Data management to any EDA tool for a significant boost in design productivity and reduced time-to-market

• Provides a programming interface for customizing DesignSync by adding Electronic Design Automation (EDA) data type recognition
• Manage any semiconductor design data by customizing  DesignSync to add Electronic Design Automation (EDA) data awareness for any data type
• Groups files and/or directories into abstract “collection” objects which are operated on atomically (ci, co, tag, etc.)
• Prevents modification of individual collection member files
• Custom icons for collection objects can be displayed in DesignSync GUI
• Data is modeled in a Tcl file called a Custom Type Package (CTP)

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 

• Work in a Familiar Environment: DDM commands such as checkin, checkout, and tag are integrated into the Cadence Virtuoso graphical environment.
• Cadence Library Recognition: Cadence library directory structures are recognized as such. Users manipulate familiar constructs such as libraries, cells, or views, while the tool automatically processes the underlying files and directories which comprise the data views. 
• Maintain Data Integrity: Operations on collection objects are atomic, such that a partial checking or checkout of a co-managed set of files cannot occur.
• Enforced Locking Model: Prevents  two designers making changes to the same version of a cell view, because once one checks in changes, there is no automated capability to merge the changes of the other.

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.

Connecting ECAD design to the enterprise results in real-time multi-discipline collaboration

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the PLM database
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• 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

Maximize the value or your AutoCAD design data with data management and collaboration while remaining in the native user interface

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• Control work-in-process, engineering changes, data, documents, and dynamic configurations
• Give non-engineering personnel direct, task-specific access to current CAD data

Maximize the value or your Cadence Allegro HDL printed circuit board design data through collaborative innovation

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the PLM database
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• Control work-in-process, engineering changes, data, documents, and dynamic configurations
• Give non-engineering personnel direct, task-specific access to current CAD data

Maximize the value or your Creo and Pro/ENGINEER design data with data management and collaboration while remaining in the native user interface

• Provides a common platform and schema that all applications share
• Stakeholders across the enterprise and extended enterprise understand exactly, in real time, what stage the design is in and what other processes are influencing the designs
• Locations and time zones no longer matter as designs and related information are visible no matter where in the world the users are or when accessed
• The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform and Power By xCAD Connectors provide a simple way for users to capture and manage designs directly from within their native tools

Maximize the value or your Inventor design data with data management and collaboration while remaining in the native user interface

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• Control work-in-process, engineering changes, data, documents, and dynamic configurations
• Give non-engineering personnel direct, task-specific access to current CAD data

Maximize the value or your Mentor Graphics Expedition Enterprise printed circuit board design data through collaborative innovation

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the PLM database
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• 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
• Improve design control and business process management to realize truly functional product development and delivery

Maximize the value or your NX design data with data management and collaboration while remaining in the native user interface

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• Control work-in-process, engineering changes, data, documents, and dynamic configurations
• Give non-engineering personnel direct, task-specific access to current CAD data

Maximize the value or your Solid Edge design data with data management and collaboration while remaining in the native user interface

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• Control work-in-process, engineering changes, data, documents, and dynamic configurations
• Give non-engineering personnel direct, task-specific access to current CAD data

Maximize the value or your Zuken CR-5000 printed circuit board design data through collaborative innovation

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the PLM database
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• Control work-in-process, engineering changes, data, documents, and dynamic configurations
• Give non-engineering personnel direct, task-specific access to current CAD data

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