Product category:
PLM and collaboration software
News Release from: Cimmetry Systems
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 03 February 2005
Review shows benefits of collaboration
solutions
A new product review paper published by CIMdata explores the benefits of employing visualisation and collaboration solutions across the extended enterprise using several real-life case scenarios.
Internationally recognised consulting and research firm CIMdata has published a new product review paper entitled, "Product visualisation across the extended enterprise" Co-authored by CIMdata President, Ed Miller and Senior CIMdata Consultant, John MacKrell, the paper explores the benefits of employing visualisation and collaboration solutions across the extended enterprise using several real-life case scenarios
The review paper also illustrates how AutoVue's visualisation and collaboration solutions facilitate global product development by providing enterprises in all industries with the ability to view, print, markup and collaborate on all data types throughout their product definition processes.
"The AutoVue family of visualisation and collaboration products from Cimmetry Systems is a very powerful set of solutions", said John MacKrell.
"It delivers a mix of capabilities that enables it to support review, analysis, approval, and verification activities on all kinds of product definition information throughout the extended enterprise of companies, their suppliers, partners, and customers".
"Cimmetry has a track record of being attentive to customer needs and over the years has developed a line of robust visualisation and collaboration applications to address the needs of product development and manufacturing organisations in industry segments as diverse as discrete manufacturing, high tech, AEC, and process plant design".
AutoVue provides native viewing, printing, markup, digital mockup and real-time collaboration support for more than 450 engineering drawings, 2D CAD, 3D CAD parts and assemblies, PCB layouts and schematics and office documents without requiring the authoring applications.
AutoVue integrates seamlessly with several document management, product lifecycle management, product data management, enterprise resource planning, workflow, ASPs and e-business portals, either directly or via the web.
AutoVue is available as a Desktop Edition as well as a Client-Server Edition for Windows or Unix servers.
"AutoVue has far-reaching benefits for all stakeholders involved in the product lifecycle", said Pam Petropoulos, Marketing Manager at Cimmetry Systems.
"AutoVue's visualisation and collaboration technologies are accessible and equally beneficial to the shop floor, design engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, suppliers, customers, sales and marketing, and provide all levels of an organisation with the ability to apply their knowledge and expertise throughout the product lifecycle".
"AutoVue's breadth of format support, intuitive user interface, online real-time collaborative features, digital mockup capabilities, design analysis features, and unified MCAD and EDA support, combine to deliver a powerful solution that should be high on any organisation's visual-collaboration solution short list", concluded CIMdata's John MacKrell.
The position paper is available from the CIMdata website and from Cimmetry's website, where readers can also download a fully functional evaluation copy of AutoVue.
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