Archive for May, 2008
How is Sharepoint different than PLM? To answer this question, let’s establish the definition of both products. SharePoint is a technology platform designed to facilitate collaboration. PLM, or Product Lifecycle Management, is designed to manage the data and processes related to our product from inception to end of life. While there is some overlap between the two products, let’s talk about a few things that PLM does well that you might struggle with in SharePoint.
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If you’re an experienced SmarTeam CAD integration user, you may be familiar with SmarTeam’s Check Out ‘on the fly’ functionality. This feature senses whether documents are Checked Out as you modify them, warns you if they are not Checked Out, and allows you to instantly check them out as you modify them.
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Beckman Coulter, a manufacturer of sophisticated medical devices, understands how critical product assembly and documentation are to its business. Beckman used to create paper-based assembly instructions, but the creation and modification process was slow and cumbersome. The paper-based instructions were also very wordy and because Beckman has a diverse workforce, choosing the right words or translations took even more time in the creation of the instructions. Beckman needed to find a better way to create assembly instructions.
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Fusion, one of VMware’s more recent products, brings virtualization to the Apple world, allowing users to run Windows on their Mac. Fusion is similar to VMware’s other desktop product, VMware Workstation, which allows desktop and laptop users to run multiple operating systems concurrently on a single piece of hardware. The difference is that Workstation was designed for the PC/Windows where Fusion is designed for Apple hardware running Mac OS X.
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3DLive, one of the latest Dassault Systèmes brands, recently announced support for CAD platforms other than CATIA. 3DLive leverages metadata and CAD geometry to deliver a rich and visual view of your PLM information, rather than just text and hierarchies. 3DLive uses a 3D paradigm to put information at your fingertips in a truly intuitive interface.
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As the 64-bit computer architecture becomes standard for new computer hardware and operating systems, it is only natural that CAD software will support running natively on this architecture. The performance of many, if not all CAD software is directly related to the speed of the CPU, the amount of RAM, and the graphics card of a computer. Some of the advantages of running CAD software on the 64-bit architecture are overall performance improvements and the ability to have more RAM on the computer.
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