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Change in Dassault Version Naming

Dassault Systems 3D Experience Compass Those accustomed to the familiar V5 version lexicon that has been in use by Dassault Systemès for roughly 15 years are soon to learn a new naming schema for all V5 products, starting with V5R22. There is method to Dassault’s madness with the change in naming system, but the new versions are a mouthful. V5-6R2012 has officially replaced V5R22 as the name for the current release of Dassault’s version 5 software. Full Article >

ACE 2012 and Razorleaf

Razorleaf will be attending the Aras Community Event 2012 at the beginning of May 2012 as part of our ongoing involvement in the PLM software community. The event, being hosted at The Detroit Marriott Troy, will be held in Troy, MI and focus on Aras Innovator and solutions built around the product. Full Article >

New EPDM Reporting Training

SolidWorks EPDM Reporting Razorleaf is proud to introduce a new training course focused on reporting for SolidWorks Enterprise PDM. The 3-day course, cleverly titled “Enterprise PDM Reporting,” is being offered May 22-24, 2012 in Richmond, VA. The course is targeted toward EPDM administrators and advanced users and dives into the various reporting mechanisms and tools available for Enterprise PDM. Full Article >

ENOVIA SmarTeam SQLMonitor

SmarTeam SQL Monitor ENOVIA SmarTeam Editor constantly interacts with the underlying database server to send and retrieve data. It can be very useful to monitor the SQL statements the application uses to interact with the database, especially in a troubleshooting scenario. This article describes the step-by-step process for enabling the SQLMonitor capabilities of ENOVIA SmarTeam Editor. Read Article >

Configuring EPDM Dashboard in Office2PDM

EPDM Dashboard is a very interesting part of the Office2PDM package – it provides a quick look into the status of files in your SolidWorks Enterprise PDM vault. Despite its obvious usefulness, configuring the tool requires a few pieces of information, and following a couple of simple steps. Here are the basics of getting EPDM Dashboard for Office2PDM setup and running. Read Article >

To RFP or Not to RFP: That is the Question

Hamlet might have been contemplating the pain of life versus the fear of death as he said his famous line, “To be, or not to be: that is the question,” but a similar question is at the heart of most companies’ PLM selection processes. Many companies are afraid of the cost and pain involved in developing a detailed RFP (Request for Proposal), but just as many companies fear equally the ramifications of not precisely defining what they want in an enterprise business system. With this theatrical analogy now played out (get it “play”ed out), let’s explore RFP’s a bit further. What should you do in an RFP and what should you skip? Read Article >

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Razorleaf Helps AMF Bowling Score a Strike with SmarTeam

Generations of children have stood in wonder on their first trip to a bowling alley, mesmerized by the smooth motion of the automatic pinsetters and the sight of brightly colored balls spinning up the ball return. The technology that makes a bowling alley operate isn’t magic – it just seems that way.

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Behind the scenes AMF Bowling, a division of QubicaAMF , engineers a complex and carefully timed dance of moving parts to be both rugged and precise. AMF designs and fabricates most of the parts it uses and assembles everything from the ball returns to the laminates for the flooring. The pinspotter, for example, includes more than 3,800 different parts, all of which must be engineered to work smoothly without clashing.

Managing such complexity isn’t easy, as Brian Williamson, CAD-PDM Administrator and design engineer with QubicaAMF Worldwide, will be the first to admit. “When I got here four years ago, I think I spent more time trying to locate the designs for the parts in our machines than I did designing new ones,” he says. “CAD files were scattered all over the network and on local drives with very little chance of being found again so they could be reused.”
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