The automated exchange of data between a PLM system and an ERP system is a goal many organizations spend a considerable amount of effort trying to achieve. Most of the time, there are significant customizations involved with this effort. ENOVIA SmarTeam’s Engineering Express (SNE) solution provides provides some out-of-the-box tools to help you achieve PLM-ERP communication with very little (if any) customization.
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One of the new tools in SolidWorks Enterprise PDM (EPDM) 2010 is the automated EPDM Task Tool. This tool helps users and system administrators automate a number of things related to Engineering output. With the tool, you can create renditions (alternate format/presentation of content) of SolidWorks Parts, Assemblies, or Drawings. The Task Tool also enables remote printing, and can create these types of output content during EPDM Workflow state changes or from right-click menu options. Continue Reading
The population of 64-bit PCs has steadily increased since their mainstream introduction in 2003, and ENOVIA SmarTeam has supported the use of 64-bit machines since V5R18 SP1. However, saying that a client-server application supports 64-bit machines can mean a number of different things. Let’s take a closer look at how 64-bit Oracle is supported in an ENOVIA SmarTeam environment. Continue Reading
To say that DriveWorks 7 is a radical leap forward for this Design Automation tool is not a stretch in any way. The DriveWorks development team has poured an immense amount of effort into the newest version of their flagship product, but you may not even notice the most significant changes. Two major architectural changes to the product have moved this DriveWorks update from being an automated SolidWorks model generator into the sales configurator market space. Continue Reading
Currently available as a Technology Preview to a limited audience, DriveWorks 7 is slated for General Availability to the entire DriveWorks community by the end of February, 2010. Scratch that, DriveWorks 7 was released Friday, February 26th and is now generally available. The new version includes a redesigned architecture that provides a new lightning-fast rules engine, customizable specification flow, enhanced web capabilities, and full support for interactive updates within SolidWorks sessions. Continue Reading
Whether you’re among the ranks of Engineering or Quality, creating inspection sheets can be a real pain. InspectionXpert is a valuable tool for automating processes around inspection sheets, and worth a look if your industry requires documented inspections. Continue Reading
There is a performance problem with a specific element of the SolidWorks API in SolidWorks 2009 SP4.1 and SP5.0 that can cause problems with the ENOVIA SmarTeam integration for SolidWorks. If you’re using the stated version of SolidWorks with SmarTeam, consider downloading and applying the relevant hotfix for SolidWorks. Continue Reading