SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional

  • SOLIDWORKS® PDM (Product Data Management) solutions provide an easy way for designers to collaborate on product designs without worrying about version control or data loss.

    SOLIDWORKS PDM is a mainstream data management system that stores and organises engineering CAD data and other documents in a central vault that has a relational database to manage all the information about the files and references, users and group permissions, electronic workflow processes and more.

    Saves time searching with a secure centralised location for all design documents and utilisation of configurable search cards which make it easy to enter search criteria and control access to data so the right users have access at the right time based on where a file is in the approval process.

    “SOLIDWORKS PDM offers more customisation freedom than most other packages I have used. Workflows and transitions are easier to customise to suit our business.”

    – Alex de Andrade – Equipment & Technology Manager, Mineral Technologies

  • SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional, an all-inclusive application so there are no extra modules or database applications to purchase.

    SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional utilises Microsoft® SQL Server Standard Edition to provide high performance and scalability and is included along with integrations SOLIDWORKS products, various third-party CAD systems, and other authoring applications including Microsoft Office®.

    SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional now has a much-improved process for handling various design change scenarios including multiple design improvement approaches, engineering change requests, and working with external design consultants.

    To find out more, please visit our Consulting and Systems integration solutions pages or contact us.

  • SMART MANUFACTURING

    What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2018

    SOLIDWORKS 2018 provides four new solutions to help you simplify interactions between product development teams and ultimately improve your business. Accelerate product innovation and grow your business with these new processes:


    DESIGN TO MANUFACTURE

    Complete solution to bring your ideas to market

    For years, companies have survived despite having a separation between their design and manufacturing departments, both by organisation, and by the tools they use. SOLIDWORKS Design-to-Manufacturing Process Solution provides everything you need to bring your ideas to market. Design to final assembly work can now happen concurrently in one seamlessly integrated and managed system.
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    DISTRIBUTED DATA MANAGEMENT
    The right data, at the right time, for the right people

    Electronic data within organisation needs to be easy to access regardless of the format – from documents and spreadsheets to metadata, processes data, and data from enterprise resource planning. SOLIDWORKS Distributed Data Management (DDM) Process Solution can organise all this data so it is easy to access across many disciplines and departments. It also makes it easy to capture non-electronic data and complex electronic data such as 3D shapes.
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    DESIGNER TO ANALYST
    Analysis tools for every step of design

    Great designs are the result of inspiration, perspiration, and hours of hard work. SOLIDWORKS Designer to Analyst Process Solution helps you speed up the complete design cycle. Your engineering and design teams can work together concurrently evolving product designs while validating any changes, and reusing previous analysis information.
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    ELECTRICAL AND IOT
    Connect your smart devices to your customers

    Every day products are becoming more complex. As web and app functionalities are added to everything from cars to sunglasses, many companies are looking for intelligent tools that work together so they can design and build the “smart” products today’s markets demand. Recognising this, one of the easiest and fastest ways to achieve a more efficient process when designing connected devices is to use one single, unified environment.

     

    The arrival of smart manufacturing

    Smart Manufacturing is a term used to describe a connected and seamless flow of intellectual property to all teams involved, from design to manufacturing. The creation of IP involves knowledge-capture early in the design process with intelligence from varied skill sets, such as design, costing, quality, manufacturing, marketing, supply chain.

    In Smart Manufacturing, information is available when it’s needed, where it’s needed, and in the form in which it is most useful. Manufacturing intelligence is built up front to actively integrate the three major components in the development process: design, manufacturing and innovation.
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    “Smart Manufacturing is more than ‘integrated’ manufacturing. It also means taking advantage of the rich content contained in the 3D CAD model.”

    – Gian Paolo Bassi, CEO of SOLIDWORKS