SOLIDWORKS Manage is an advanced data management software solution for product development and lifecycle management. Built on a SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional backbone, SOLIDWORKS Manage brings powerful reporting, item management, project and project management, and Bill of Materials capabilities to your product development and release processes.
SOLIDWORKS Manage enables users to collect and centrally control designs and manufacturing data distributed throughout Windows directories, share drives, and disparate software solutions. On a single platform, SOLIDWORKS Manage makes coordinating and collaborating on various activities within the product development process effortless.
SOLIDWORKS Manage is an advanced data management software solution providing similar functionality to a PLM system. Traditionally, SOLIDWORKS Manage is the next step up from SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional and users benefit from the advanced capabilities built on top of the SOLIDWORKS PDM backbone.
Product Data Management (PDM) software streamlines the management of 2D and 3D CAD files, enhancing collaboration and efficiency for engineering and design teams.
SOLIDWORKS Manage offers robust document management capabilities, providing record-level version and revision control for all file types that centralize and secure product documentation.
SOLIDWORKS Manage records management enables the creation and tracking of non-file-based records, centralizing related data and enhancing connectivity within product data records.
SOLIDWORKS Manage offers a comprehensive Bill of Materials (BOM) management toolset, integrating CAD and non-file-based records to enhance database-driven, record-centric BOMs.
Process Management in SOLIDWORKS Manage offers extensive workflow, approval, and decision-making capabilities, streamlining various business processes and product development tasks.
SOLIDWORKS Manage allows for comprehensive task assignment and tracking, integrating tasks with various product data records and providing dashboards for enhanced accountability and project management.
SOLIDWORKS Manage offers integrated project management with powerful project and time management tools, enhancing project deliverables and reducing time-to-market.
SOLIDWORKS Manage includes a comprehensive suite of built-in tools, offering customizable dashboards and automated reporting without the need for programming or third-party integrations.
Today’s manufacturers face a host of challenges related to effectively managing product design and manufacturing data - not just within product development and manufacturing departments but across the greater manufacturing enterprise. How well organizations manage this data - and leverage it to support related functions - has a direct impact on a manufacturer’s ability to grow, as well as maintain and extend its competitive edge.
Read this white paper to not only learn the top five reasons why manufacturing organizations should improve their data management, but how SOLIDWORKS data management solutions will help them achieve their business goals by:
Product Data Management (PDM) is an engineering document control software that manages native 2D and 3D CAD files. PDM software provides a database-driven environment to manage design data that enables engineering and design teams to work collaboratively on the same dataset and maximize their efficiency. PDM alleviates the overhead of non-value-add time loss associated with reference management and revision control of CAD data when saving CAD files either within Windows directories or non-PDM document management software that is not capable of understanding CAD file relationships. PDM immediately returns valuable time normally lost by managing data manually allowing your engineering and design teams to be more efficient and maintain focus on the job at hand. Without PDM, teams can spend hours of their day ‘fixing’ broken CAD models and tracking down lost references before they can begin working.
The document management capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Manage provide a quality management system (QMS) level of capability to the job of version and revision control for all file types. A typical product development process generates large quantities of file data that must be tracked, controlled, linked, and 'lifecycled'. This covers an entire organization’s file management needs well beyond just managing MCAD design data from SOLIDWORKS. Document records can now be centrally controlled and lifecycle managed within a single system that has a place for product documentation to be collected, controlled, and linked together within a secured environment and managed centrally by a relational database.
When it comes to records management, SOLIDWORKS understands that not everything is a CAD model or a spreadsheet. Item Master records management allows the creation and tracking of non-file-based records called Items. Item management allows for the representation of all of the related data for a record to be collected and referenced under a single database item. An item can manage multiple file attachments and relationships without being a file itself; items have attributes, can have BOMs and be used in BOMs, and have relationships and links to the rest of the product data records. Engineering and operations departments use item masters in BOMS and link them as needed throughout the product data record. Item Master management capability allows for the tracking of data from quality and engineering departments that are typically buried in spreadsheets and not connected effectively to the product data record.
Bill of Materials management is a robust toolset that can integrate CAD as well as non-file based item master records to allow your engineering BOMs to break free of Excel and unlock the full potential of a database-driven item-centric BOM record. Workflow options exist within SOLIDWORKS Manage for both ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ BOM management that works equally well for companies that prefer to build a BOM structure first and then work backward into the supporting design and specification data later and for companies that prefer CAD-driven BOM management where deep integration is necessary between the MCAD BOM from SOLIDWORKS and the engineering BOM record managed by operations. BOM comparison, kit BOMs, multi-site, and BOM variant configuration management capabilities are but a few of the array of features that come standard with SOLIDWORKS Manage BOM features.
Process Management covers a wide range of workflow, approval, and procedural decision-making capabilities that help manage every facet of the product development process. Process records may be configured to handle any business process application including engineering and document change management, problem reporting, ticket tracking, corrective and preventative action reports, non-conforming material reporting, training records management, and new product development. Building tailored workflow routes becomes as easy as drawing a Visio-style flow diagram (no programming required). Create process controls that can be used and applied to product data records themselves… the item masters, BOMs, and documents managed throughout the system.
Assign and track task completion across the platform. Task records have creators, owners, and assignees and can either ‘float’ ad-hoc or are directly linked to product deliverables. Because they are sewn throughout the environment, they may be linked to all types of product data records (CAD data, files, Item masters, BOMs, process workflow stages, and project phases). Tasks have dedicated dashboards with calendars, timelines, and review capability. Provide your entire product development team with an easy and compelling method to create accountability and allow for anything from simple ad-hoc time management or used in concert with project management for calculated time roll-ups associated with phase and milestone completion goals. Tasks can be tied to workflow stage completion as gate-management conditions required to proceed to the next stage of the process. Tasks eliminate the need for project managers to poll users to determine where they are within a job. Instead, users can directly report completion and status updates within task-based SCRUM project sprints.
Integrated product portfolio management (PPM) for every facet of the product development process. SOLIDWORKS Manage is equipped wit powerful project and time management tools that are tied to projects and product deliverables. Stop using disconnected project management tools that ‘pretend’ to deliver results but are not tied to the deliverables that they purportedly ‘manage’. With integrated task management, timesheets, Gantt-charts, phases, milestones, critical path analysis, and data analytics tools SOLIDWORKS Manage keeps engineering projects and new product development efforts ahead of schedule and shortens the ‘time-to-market’ curve.
SOLIDWORKS Manage comes standard with a whole suite of data analytics tools built-in and easily configured. There are no programming or system integrations required nor dependence on third-party business intelligence tools. The suite of analytical capabilities breaks down into two main functional areas to cover both dashboarding and reporting requirements. Dashboarding includes both standard ‘built-in’ dashboards as well as fully configurable/customizable dashboards for charts, graphs, tables, dials, widgets, and gauges. Dashboards present users with live data from SOLIDWORKS Manage and PDM and can also confederate data from external systems and be used as a full BI platform. With SOLIDWORKS Manage, you can stop struggling with Excel and racing to keep your data up to date and accurate. Reporting will tie you directly to your source data and make preparing reports an easy, repeatable, and automated process. Reports can be published on-demand or executed automatically by a workflow process stage.
Both PDM and Manage use the same licensing tiers: Editor, Contributors, and Viewers. Editors are for CAD editors, Contributors are for non-CAD editors, and Viewers are for read-only records access. All license types are concurrent-use ‘floating’ networked global licenses.
To begin with, Manage comes out-of-the-box integrated into SOLIDWORKS PDM for full system, bi-directional access. The level of sophistication of this integration between Manage and PDM is orders of magnitude deeper than could be done with third-party PDM sy. Manage has total situational awareness and control over PDM. Integrations between Manage and third-party systems such as ERPs may be done with a variety of techniques. Manage comes with powerful built-in data transformation and extraction tools for point-to-point data pushes as well as an open SQL database for middleware-based extractions and transformation.
SOLIDWORKS PDM is a file-based system, meaning every action requires an accompanying file. SOLIDWORKS Manage is an added layer onto an existing SOLIDWORKS PDM environment that adds record management processes like reporting, process and project management, and item management.
Today’s manufacturers face a host of challenges related to effectively managing product design and manufacturing data - not just within product development and manufacturing departments but across the greater manufacturing enterprise. How well organizations manage this data - and leverage it to support related functions - has a direct impact on a manufacturer’s ability to grow, as well as maintain and extend its competitive edge.
Read this white paper to not only learn the top five reasons why manufacturing organizations should improve their data management, but how SOLIDWORKS data management solutions will help them achieve their business goals by:
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