http://www.razorleaf.com Innovative Process Solutions. Bottom-Line Results. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:16:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ShareVis has recently made some significant and exciting changes in their licensing model.  Up to this point, ShareVis’ licensing model was very basic; organizations deploying ShareVis purchased one enterprise license per SharePoint Web Front End.  ShareVis now has licensing based on a rental model and based on a usage model.  ShareVis’ traditional license allowed companies to deploy [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/sharevis-licensing-changes/ It’s not uncommon for large organizations to have embraced virtualization, both in the testing environment and for production use.  Many vendors have offerings that make it easier for smaller organizations, or individuals, to take advantage of virtualization too.  In fact, all the major vendors offer free or personal versions of their flagship products.  And you [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/free-virtualization-tools/ A common problem many companies face is the ability to have deliverable documents, like web images, catalogs, and technical illustrations, mirror their final product.  Because of the dynamic nature of design and engineering, it is often a struggle to keep this downstream output up-to-date without utilizing some type of automation. Using 3DVIA Sync ensures changes [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/3dvia-sync-and-automated-deliverables/ Aras Innovator has an underlying mark-up language it uses for all of its database transactions. The language is referred to as Aras Mark-up Language, or AML. Aras also provides a sandbox interface for developing and running AML, called NASH. Here’s a short primer for getting familiar with AML and NASH.  Aras Mark-up Language is written in [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/aml-nash/ With every upgrade to ENOVIA SmarTeam (not to mention upgrades to CAD, Office and database platforms) there’s no question about the benefits of building a test environment for validation prior to a production roll-out.  An important piece of building a test environment is a properly configured test vault.  Quite often, a successful test doesn’t require [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/smarteam-vault-data-xfer/ The purpose of design automation is to more quickly and easily generate vast amounts of outputs. ]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/design-automation-and-pdm/ So the plan is to use ShareVis for a while, review the audit trails of your processes and make some improvements.  You’ll continue these steps for the foreseeable future in an effort to continually improve your processes.  But how will you collect your process audit trails?  Once a process is complete, ShareVis displays a complete, [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/sharevis-audit-trail/ 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 [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/plm-erp-communication/ 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 [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/enterprise-pdm-task-tool/ 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 [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/64-bit-oracle-smarteam/