PDM Systems & Capabilities

Need help in selecting and deploying the right PDM solutions for your product development environment?

At Phusion Engineering, we help our clients select, configure, implement, and integrate PDM solutions within the product development environment. Our solutions are the product of strong partner relationships with leading vendors, and many years of experience in product development.

Below is a quick summary of many of the popular PDM/PLM systems on the market, including their PDM capabilities. Each has its own unique strengths and capabilities, especially when it comes to managing the complexities of work-in-process CAD data. Allow us to help you align the right technologies with your business and process objectives and requirements.

The Autodesk® Productstream® family of product data management (PDM) applications provides a modular and practical approach to controlling your design data. Accelerate development cycles and optimize your company’s investment in design data by using Productstream software to organize information, manage data, and automate key processes.

• Maximize return on your company’s investment in design data by driving design reuse.
• Maintain control over design data at all times, and create accurate engineering BOMs that can be used to predict the effect and cost of change.
• Benefit from better collaboration among designers, design workgroups, manufacturers, and suppliers.

Productstream is tightly integrated with Autodesk® Inventor™ software, all AutoCAD® software–based manufacturing products, and third-party design and productivity applications such as SolidWorks®, Pro/ENGINEER®, and Microsoft® Office software.

Model Manager enables true concurrent design — allowing internal and extended teams to easily search, load and store 3D models, associative 2D drawings and other types of product design data. Revision and state control, where used, and saved searches improve productivity and ensures that everyone involved with the product development process has access to the right data.

• Manage CAD design data effectively from beginning to end
• Organize and track all types of product design data
• Leverage existing design data and increase productivity
• Enhance communication across the design team
• Effectively manage design projects

Model Manager supports CoCreate Modeling, AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, Solid Edge and the Microsoft Office Suite.

DesignDataManager is an affordable off the shelf product that is designed to protect the integrity of your data, streamline your engineering creation and change processes and provide you with full audit tracking, in a managed and controlled easy to use environment, securing your investment in design by protecting your Engineering IP.

• Familiar XP Style User Interface
• Engineering Change Management
• Release State Management
• Project Data Management
• Bill of Material Management
• Change History and Audit Tracking
• Enterprise Update Manager (ERP)
• Office Document Management

DesignDataManager supports Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Inventor, CoCreate Drafting, IronCAD, and Solid Edge.

PDMWorks® Enterprise is a product data management (PDM) software solution that can be deployed in a fraction of the time required by other enterprise PDM systems. It helps your organization manage and share product data more effectively to create better products in less time. Effective teamwork is vital to delivering the right product at the right time and price to meet the needs of your customers. PDMWorks Enterprise is a PDM solution that enables members of your organization to work together more easily and bring quality products to market more rapidly.

• Easy to implement and use
• Provides scalable, secure access for large design teams
• Enables companies to manage data at multiple locations with automatic file replication at each site
• Automates simple workflow including ECN/ECO processes
• Enables connectivity to MRP/ERP systems
• Full audit trails enables regulatory compliance

PDMWorks® Enterprise offers full management, including reference management of SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Inventor and Solid Edge.

mySAP PLM CAD Desktop allows you to access and manage document structures within your CAD system or your SAP system. Seamlessly link CAD drawings to business objects within your SAP system, including material masters, bills of materials (BOMs), classification, and engineering change management (ECM). Instantly export pertinent information for collaboration via cFolders, digital mock-up (DMU), or integrated product and process engineering (iPPE).

• Multilevel 3D CAD structures (document bills of material)
• Mass check-in and check-out of CAD assemblies
• Tight management of the 3D and 2D process
• Management of 2D drawings
• Tight integration with engineering-change management
• Tight integration with materials management
• Tight integration with bills of material
• Integration of viewing formats
• Workflow integration.

CAD Desktop supports Pro/Engineer, CATIA, NX, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Solid Edge and CoCreate Modeling.

KollabNet develops Design Management software, enabling greater control over the engineering process. Faced with increasing global competition, companies are forced to continually develop innovative, high quality products, at lower costs and in shorter periods of time in order to grow market share. Traditional data editing and management tools (PDM, CAD, Requirements Management, etc …) and Process Management tools (MRP, ERP, etc …) by themselves cannot propel organizations to where they need to be.

• Capture and Visualize Design know-how
• Predict Impact of Change
• Manage Trade-offs
• Provide Design Traceability and Consistency
• Manage Product Architecture

With KollabNet’s Design Management tool, companies can integrate existing silos of information resulting in capturing and leveraging the complete “story” behind the design and leading to the next level of competitiveness and profitability.

SmarTeam provides collaborative Product Data Management for small and mid-sized enterprises, engineering departments of larger organizations, and across supply chains. In addition, SMARTEAM has a highly flexible data model, multi-CAD integrations, workflow capabilities, open APIs and the ability to integrate and exchange data with other enterprise systems. This allows SMARTEAM to be configured to meet companies' PDM requirements and business processes.

SmarTeam supports Catia V5, AutoCAD, Inventor, Microstation, Pro/Engineer, Solid Edge, and SolidWorks

MatrixOne Designer Central™ enables designers around the world to manage and collaborate from one application, no matter what design tools they are using. Designer Central eliminates the need for multiple CAD work group managers and the cost associated with supporting each related data manager.

• Provides work-in-process data management across all popular mechanical and electrical design tools
• Visually collaborate around the design information or other information related to the design
• Schedule meetings for review at any step in the development process
• Securely provide design information to suppliers and customers
• Create private and public workspaces for organizing and sharing designs

Designer Central supports Pro/Engineer, Unigraphics NX, Catia V4 & V5, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD, Microstation, Cadence, Mentor and Zuken.

Teamcenter Express helps mid-sized manufacturing companies transform their process of innovation by applying preconfigured best practices to everyday engineering tasks and processes. Companies using Teamcenter Express benefit from:

• Securing your corporate design data while facilitating access by authorized personnel
• A more successful move from 2D to 3D
• Increasing your design reuse, facilitated by a powerful and flexible search capability
• Streamlining your engineering process with simple design review and release workflows and effective change management
• Error reduction through more effective collaboration between your departments and the elimination of mistake-prone manual handoffs to manufacturing
• Rapid deployment of a full-featured cPDM solution
• Low total cost of ownership

Teamcenter Express can be coupled with a wide variety of CAD applications including UGS' Solid Edge and NX as well as CATIA, AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, and SolidWorks.

Windchill PDMLink is a single, trusted digital product development data repository that allows manufacturers to expertly manage all forms of product data – including mechanical, electrical, and software.  It is web-based for easy enterprise-wide access, and supports geographically dispersed teams while managing critical processes such as change/configuration management and release to manufacturing.

• A Web-based master product data management repository, enabling global access to current, accurate information from myriad sources
• Seamlessly connects to multiple mechanical/electrical CAD applications, desktop applications and Enterprise Resource Planning systems.
• Prevents costly design errors by controlling and automating typically chaotic product change management processes
• Facilitates rapid development of new product configurations through reuse of previously designed product configurations
• Operates seamlessly with Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill ProjectLink for distributed, cross-enterprise collaboration on data acquisition and product information

PDMLink supports Pro/ENGINEER, CADDS®, AutoCAD®, CATIA® V4, CATIA® V5, Unigraphics®, I-DEAS®, Inventor®, and SolidWorks®.  Also major ECAD packages from Mentor® and Cadence®