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SmarTeam Design Express:
SmarTeam
Design Express for CATIA
Competition
Overview
1
What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?
2
How SDE Resolves your PDM Challenges
3
Customers
4
Key Differentiators
5
Typical Project Plan
6
Next Steps: Beyond Design Express
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Agenda
1.1
Getting the most out of your CATIA
creating large and complex 3D assemblies
„ Each assembly contains an enormous volume of valuable information:
„ Part - Instances
„ Part - References and Links
„ Product - Structures
„ Documents
„ Assembly Features
„ Constraints
„ Context Information and much more...
„ As your design team collaboratively creates and modifies designs, you
quickly accumulate a wealth of data that is difficult to manage
„ SmarTeam Design Express gives you the tools and methods to better
leverage that powerful data
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„ CATIA is an extremely powerful product development environment for
1.1
What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?
data of all kinds in a robust database and enables you to easily control
and manipulate that data
„ SmarTeam Design Express is a quick-start package combining
„ SmarTeam Editor and best-in-class CATIA integration
„ a pre-configured database
„ a methodology guide that sets out the Collaborative Design practices you
need
„ a dedicated training pack
„ An implementation program that allows install within ten days
„ Design Express is designed to help you get more benefit from your
CATIA data, fast
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„ SmarTeam is a Windows-based PDM system that secures product
1.1
What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?
„ Optimized collaborative CATIA design and data management
way that they are easily located, accessed and shared by all users, ensuring security,
document revisions and traceability
„ COLLABORATION - Teams collectively access work-in-progress, sharing and
delegating tasks across projects
„ INTEGRATION - Users work in their familiar CATIA or MS Office environment, yet
from within it have easy access to data management capabilities
„ STANDARDIZATION - Work is based on standards and employs pre-configured
design practices in order to promote reuse and reduce risks
„ ANALYSIS - Effective tools are used to analyze existing information, enabling
impact analysis on changes between different versions
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„ SHARING - All documents in the engineering department are managed in such a
1.1
What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?
and efficiently create, organize, change and share data:
„ Straightforward User Scenarios
„ Optimized CATIA V5 settings for executing the user scenarios
„ Methodology support for catalogues
„ Business methods for CATIA V5
„ Tools for title block and BOM management
„ Dedicated training program
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„ Proven methodologies for CATIA design teams to optimally
1
What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?
2
How SDE Resolves your PDM Challenges
3
Customers
4
Key Differentiators
5
Typical Project Plan
6
Next Steps: Beyond Design Express
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Agenda
1
You need to store, structure and secure your product data
2
You need to keep track of changes to documents through
revisions and maturity
3
You need to efficiently search for and quickly find the
right data within its context
4
You need to enable the design team to share documents
in a controlled manner
5
You need your designers to reuse standard parts and
designs
6
You need to view various data formats without their native
applications
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Design Express resolves the most basic PDM challenges
facing the CATIA Design Team
2.1
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Store, structure and secure your data
„ Store: Collect and store all
„ Structure: Organise the
documents in standardized
way, using categories such
as projects, customers,
users, etc. to create one
homogeneous filing system
for everyone, replacing the
standard Windows directory
structure.
„ Secure: Data is only accessed via a login ID
and password-protected connection, stored on
a server with security functions and with an
automated tape back-up process.
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product-related data on a
single, secure server.
Securing and structuring valuable product knowledge
„ Challenge: As the volume of
unwieldy CATIA data,
complete with assemblies,
parts, dependencies,
references, links, etc. grows,
the data becomes very
unmanageable
„ Solution: SDE offers a preconfigured data model that
structures the access to your
CATIA data, replacing the
standard Windows file
directory with a product tree,
profile cards, queries and
wizards that guide users to
find any CATIA object they
need, any time
“We needed a tool to manage a wide range of
information concerning product structures and
relationships between parts ... because of the
huge amount of data involved in our 500 product
lines, some of the most complex of which
contain up to 2,000 components…. there’s an
incalculable gain in efficiency when data is
entered once and reused many times.” Alec Gil,
Engineering Manager, S&C Electric, USA
„ Benefits:
„ Speeds access to product
knowledge, spurring innovation
„ reduces file administration
headaches, lowering cost of
maintenance
„ reduces file loss and duplication,
saving IT resources and reducing
errors
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Securing and structuring valuable product knowledge
Files and
Documents
Forms
Interface
File
System
“Protecting your most valuable asset”
Database
Vault
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Secured CAD Data Management
Tracking changes to documents
„ Keep track of the changes made to each document as it matures,
without ever renaming the document or copying it to another directory.
„ Maintain each revision of the document, enabling access to and reuse of
each revision, as well as comparison to previous versions
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Tracking revisions, versions and product history
different products and projects
usually requires modifications.
The more complex the
assembly, the more difficult to
trace modifications. When
multiple designers access the
same files, tracing becomes
even more problematic.
„ Functionality: Checking
each revision of a document
into the vault enables
designers to easily retrace
steps to find the exact version
needed.
“With SmarTeam production personnel access
only the most current design versions, incorrect
revisions can no longer get to the shop floor...
Departments can collaborate to develop
innovative designs and optimize their
manufacture.” – Jason Lindgren, Project
Manager, Sub-Zero Freezer Co., USA
„ Benefits:
„ Full visibility into design processes
„ Avoid errors caused by using
wrong revision
„ Comply with standards requiring
product history
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„ Challenge: Reuse of parts in
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Efficiently search for the right data within context
Click once to see in which assemblies a design part has been used
Find out via a product or part search if a 3D design exists
Search by relations between data, for example, to find a specification
document via its relation to a 3D or 2D design, or a new part design
via its relation to a price quotation
Search by attribute;
saved searches
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Quickly locate all documents associated with any project.
Efficient search mechanisms show data in context
„ Challenge: As data
accumulates and file names are
similar, it becomes problematic
and time-consuming to find any
given design by its file name
„ Functionality: Advanced
keyword and text search and
query mechanisms allow
designers to find exactly what
they need, and in full design
context, allowing them to better
evaluate if the file located is the
most relevant to their needs
“Users can search and find parts, configurations,
drawings and assemblies by any attribute, such
as revision, drawing name, description, drawing
number, part number, etc. The software tracks
where-used and composed-of relationships
automatically, making it easy to determine where
a certain part can be found within different
assemblies…” Jim Farrell, Lord Corporation,
USA – industrial components manufacturer
„ Benefits:
„ Save valuable time consumed in
file administration
„ Avoid redundant design through
quicker location of existing files
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Controlled sharing of documents by multiple users
Protect the work of all members of the team; information is not
overwritten, so each modification can be tracked individually.
Audit the system to see who performed which change at what time
Safely access the same document concurrently without modifying the
original - when one user owns a document for editing, others can only
use it in view mode.
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Collaborative Design Management
„ Challenge: Designers
collaborating on a shared
data set cannot concentrate
on pure design tasks if they
need to worry about other
users accidentally erasing or
changing their work through
inadequate mechanisms to
control the collaboration
„ Functionality: Lifecycle
mechanisms give designers
visibility into each design’s
status and detailed records
of each revision, enabling
them to confidently work
concurrently on the same
files
”We work as a team using a number of linked
CATIA V5 models and associated design tools to
ensure designs adhere to defined rules ... the
latest project data is easily available to all
engineers employed on the project, thereby
ensuring that engineers are not working in
isolation; they have full visibility of all design
changes as they happen.” Darren Caines,
Integral Powertrain, automotive engineering
firm, UK
„ Benefits:
„Drive innovation through meeting of
minds
„Raise productivity through efficient
allocation of design resources
„Reduce bottlenecks via better
visibility into joint design tasks
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Collaborative Design Management
Files and
Documents
Multiple
User Control
Forms
Interface
3D Viewer
Interrogate &
Markup
Standalone
Access
File
System
Database
Vault
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CAD Data Management in Design Office
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Promote the reuse of standards and existing data
Reduce the number of duplications of similar parts to minimize stocks
and enforce sourcing policies
Encourage the use of copies of existing product as starting points for
new designs, eliminating duplication of designs in multiple projects.
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Promote and support the mandatory use of standard documents
(purchased parts or designs) and ensure their correct use with no
duplications or non-traceable changes in design
Promoting Part Standardization and Design Reuse
„ Challenge: If designers are
free to select any parts or
components, especially
purchased components, the
company will stock low
volume of wide range of
parts, causing inventory and
pricing problems; starting new
design projects from scratch
expends valuable design
resources on redundant work
„ Functionality:
Designation of standard or
“master” parts for common
components; use of “design
copy” to jump-start new
projects with proven,
existing designs that can be
innovatively modified to
meet new requirements
“Using (SmarTeam) to archive files also can
reduce part counts and associated costs by
facilitating design standardization procedures
that uncover slight variations in multiple
components where a single configuration would
suffice. (It) greatly improves our ability to manage
part configurations.“ Swagelok, USA –
industrial components manufacturer (valves)
„ Benefits:
„Reduce inventory overhead and
delays due to inefficient sourcing
„Speed time to market and drive
innovation by reusing existing
designs
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View variety of data formats
Manage and map information inside documents through the
SmarTeam integrations to CATIA, MS Word, MS Excel, etc.
Visualize via SmarTeam digital documents in any of more than 450
formats (CATIA, IGES, TIF, DWG …) that are stored in any location.
Display integrated MS Word and Excel files within SmarTeam without
opening the applications
3D Models
FEA
Specifications and
Documentation
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View Various Data Formats without Native Applications
„ Challenge: Designers prefer
to stay inside the design
workspace and to avoid
devoting time and memory
resources to view documents
related to design that require
them to open additional
applications
„ Functionality: SmarTeam
enables designers, as well as
other users, to view files in
more than 450 different
formats without needing the
native application. This
functionality enables
designers to properly classify
and link various kinds of
documents to projects and to
designs to ensure that all the
data can be easily viewed in
context.
“It is important for us to give access to our clients
in order for them to visualize their projects in real
time, and observe the progress, while securing
the data and maintaining confidentiality,” JeanPierre Bregeon, ABMI, project engineering
firm, France
„ Benefits:
„Save time and resources otherwise
spent to purchase, install, train on
and maintain other software
applications
„Save designers’ time and memory
needed to run additional applications
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View Various Data Formats without Native Applications
Quote
Request
Database
Vault
Data Sheets
CATIA
Pro/Engineer
AutoCAD
Price Quote
Technical
Publications
SolidWorks
Any File Type
Marketing
Presentations
Inventor
SolidEdge
“Managing data in a
mixed environment”
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Viewing many data formats
Design Express Resolves your Basic PDM challenges
1
Secure, structured storage of valuable product knowledge
2
Revision tracking, version control and product history
3
Efficient searching that shows data in context
4
Collaborative Design Management
5
Part Standardization and Design Reuse
6
Viewing of Data without its Native Application
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2.1
1
What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?
2
How SDE Resolves your PDM Challenges
3
Customers
4
Key Differentiators
5
Typical Project Plan
6
Next Steps: Beyond Design Express
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Agenda
Customers Using SmarTeam to Manage CATIA Data
„ Aesculap, medical equipment, France
„ AGME, industrial machinery, Spain
„ Aircraft Braking Systems, aerospace components,
USA
„ ARC International, consumer products, France
„ Automatic Systems, industrial automation systems,
Belgium
„ Electrolux, consumer products, USA
„ Evernham Motorsports, automotive, USA
„ Franz Viegener (Viega), industrial equipment,
Germany
„ Gnatus, medical equipment, Brazil
„ Heroux Devtek, aerospace components, Canada
„ Huber & Suhner, industrial equipment, Germany
„ Integral Powertrain, engineering services, UK
„ Koito Manufacturing, automotive components,
Japan
„ Kovovyroba Hoffman, automotive components,
Czech Rep.
„ Krebs Engineers, industrial equipment, USA
„ Liebherr Aerospace, aerospace components,
France & Germany
„ Loewen, consumer goods, Canada
„ Magellan Aerospace, aerospace components, UK
„ Maschio Group, agricultural machinery, Italy
„ Microturbo, aerospace components, USA
„ NSC Schlumberger, industrial machinery, France
„ Peltor, consumer goods, Sweden
„ Sanyo Machine Works, industrial equipment, USA
„ SDMO Industries, industrial components, France
„ Securistyle, consumer goods, UK
„ Sennheiser, electronic consumer goods, Germany
„ Shaanxi Aircraft Industry Co., aerospace, China
„ Siemens VDO, automotive components, Germany
„ Sintered Products, div. Federal Mogul, automotive
components, France
„ Snecma Propulsion Solide (SPS), aerospace
components, France
„ Volvo Construction Equipment (VCE), industrial
equipment, Belgium
and many more….
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3.1
Aircraft Braking Systems
One of the world’s three leaders in the manufacture and supply
of aircraft wheels, brakes, and anti-skid systems to aerospace
OEMs such as Boeing, Airbus, Embraer, Dassault, Gulfstream,
and Bombardier, and to military entities and parts distributors
Revenues: US $400 million per annum Employees: 799
Business
Challenges:
Solution:
Benefits:
Coordinating disparate systems
Speeding up RFQ response to companies
Reducing time to market
Meeting aerospace industry regulatory and safety-compliance
requirements
SmarTeam Engineering Config, Workflow and CATIA TDM
Integration
SmarTeam supports concurrent engineering processes
across ABSC’s design team, including management of FEA
associativity and analysis models and of the multiple CATIA
V5 files generated
Integration with ERP: in prolonged benchmark SmarTeam
won over SAP PLM
Flexibility, customization, and seamless integration to CATIA
lets ABSC optimally manage FEA data
High usability makes interaction easy even for those
outside engineering
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Company Profile:
Maschio Group
Business
Challenges:
MASCHIO GROUP of Italy is a leading global supplier of
agricultural machinery
Maintain high growth in a stagnant WW market
Meet market deadlines: Missing springtime season
costs an entire year of potential sales
Re-use existing design to develop variants
Solution:
SmarTeam Editor and CATIA TDM installed at both divisions to
capture and reuse knowledge and standardize processes
Benefits:
Right to Market - Product cycle time cut by 55%, from 18
months to 10 months
Cost Reduction - Reduction of number and cost of physical
prototypes: e.g. 115 K€ saved per year to test molded parts
Product Cycle Time
20
18 months
15
10
10 months
5
0
Previous 2D,
CATIA +
3D, PDM
SMARTEAM
“All companies face the same issue: Meet the customer
requirements and reduce the time-to-market. CATIA and
SmarTeam are by far the best answer.” M. Crozzoli,
IT Director, MASCHIO GROUP
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Company Profile:
Company Profile:
Business
Challenges:
Solution:
Developing water distribution systems for the building
industry.
HQ Germany, international group, 2000 employees
CAD systems in use: PCADAM, CATIA V4
Enterprise ERP solution with SAP
Deliver more product innovation
Reduce costs through better standard part offering
3D prototyping of design solutions
Product simulation before fabrication processes
Collaboration across multi-sites
Integration with existing Viega legacy solutions
SmarTeam Editor and TDM manage
CATIA data (50 CATIA V5 seats)
SmarTeam Links to SAP ERP solution
SmarTeam Links to Viega legacy solutions
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Franz Viegener (Viega)
Peltor
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„
Business
Challenges:
Part of the Aearo group, Peltor, HQ Sweden,
manufactures a broad range of safety equipment
Net Sales 2003 – US$ 316 million, up 10.3% over 2002
1500 employees worldwide
Launch more new products while maintaining short
development cycles
Deliver innovative products with superior functionality
and ergonomics
Adapt products to local standards and customer needs
Share product data across company, including global
after-sales teams
Strong integration between CAD (CATIA V5) and PDM
Solution:
SmarTeam Editor, Web Editor, Workflow and CATIAIntegration
Comprehensive capture and organized storage of product
information with all its related documents and data
Improved collaboration between different teams
Structured, managed working processes
Strong integration between CAD (CATIA V5) and
SmarTeam
Benefits:
Develop + 70% more new products in same time period
Reduce number of errors found during production by 80%
Reduce cost of developing new parts by 33%
Save more than one man year annually through elimination of
printed drawings
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Company „
Profile:
Sintered Products, division of Federal Mogul,
France
Business
Challenges:
Leading global supplier to automotive and other industries, runs 4 sites in
France that design, develop and manufacture engine parts and other
mechanical components for clients such as PSA, Renault, Toyota and Audi
Increase productivity and strengthen collaboration
between Design Office and other data users and
applications
Optimize data security and management, track
modifications and maintain pre-project histories
Leverage corporate knowledge through improved
processing of clients’ engineering data
Solution:
SmarTeam Editor and CATIA TDM Integration
and Multi-site Migration of multi-CAD legacy
data (CATIA V4, Pro/E, Medusa and CDM)
Benefits:
Rapid productivity gains;
Reliable, open access to specific,
accurate information powers
communications;
Rapid ramp-up, training and support
facilitates quick, broad user acceptance
Implemented strategy to improve quality
and reduce development times in less
than one year
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Company „
Profile:
Sintered Products
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What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?
2
How SDE Resolves your PDM Challenges
3
Customers
4
Key Differentiators
5
Typical Project Plan
6
Next Steps: Beyond Design Express
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Agenda
4.1
Why Design Express over the Competition?
„ ENOVIA brands offer the only native, best-in-class CATIA
integration on the market;
provides full integrity of the data (maintaining all critical types of CATIA data –
links, references, etc)
„ Competitors’ CATIA integrations are often built by third-party developers, and
therefore are expensive and not synchronized with new releases of CATIA, as it is
not their core competence
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„ Competitors do not have the knowledge and focus to build an integration that
4.2
Why Design Express over the Competition?
managing files and documents and then grow to managing
document structures and item structures
„ Competitors focused on document / file management are not able to provide the
full scenario combined with items, thus limiting the opportunity for future
expansion to PLM
„ Competitors focused primarily on item management have added document
management later as a limited capability, thus they don’t provide full document
integration capabilities for engineers working within CATIA
„ SmarTeam is engineering-centric, focusing primarily on design
lifecycle management
„ Competitors that began outside the PLM market don’t offer the functionality that
engineering-centric companies need
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„ SmarTeam provides the built-in flexibility that allows you to start by
4.3
Why Design Express over the Competition?
proven, mainstream components makes the product more flexible
and customisable than that of its competitors. It allows users to
adjust the built-in scenarios exactly to their needs.
„ Most competitors offer less flexibility, so users have less ability to tailor
their systems to fit their processes.
„ SmarTeam beats the competition at integration with multiple CADs,
legacy, in-house and enterprise applications.
„ SmarTeam offers scalability and Design Express includes built-in
upgrade capabilities to full PLM functionality using the same
platform.
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„ SmarTeam’s flexible data model, open API and foundation on
4.4
Why Design Express over the Competition?
the mid-market, offering out-of-the-box functionality, low cost
of administration and ownership, ease of use and rapid
implementation
„ The competitors offer you an attractive starting price, but when deploying
and trying to extend the scope of the implementation, you will discover
high prices for additional functionality and implementation services, or
realise that you have reached the ceiling already with your starting product
„ Owned by Dassault Systèmes, one of the industry’s global leaders,
ENOVIA SmarTeam is a component of a comprehensive PLM
portfolio, enjoying financial stability (CAGR in US$ of 18% since
1997), high investment in technology (26.5% of revenue invested in
R&D) and exposure to the broad R&D resources of all the Dassault
Systèmes’ and ENOVIA brands
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„ SmarTeam has from its inception been geared to the needs of
4.5
Why SmarTeam Design Express?
„ Small added investment to get a higher return on
existing CATIA investment
„ Best in class, native CATIA Integration
„ Prepackaged software and services “quick start” kit
„ Robust data model tailored for collaborative design
„ Proven user methodology and training program
„ Complete Implementation within 10 days
„ Scalable, customizable system grows with your PLM
needs
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Key Differentiators:
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How SDE Resolves your PDM Challenges
3
Customers
4
Key Differentiators
5
Typical Project Plan
6
Next Steps: Beyond Design Express
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Agenda
5.1
Typical Project Plan
existing customers. It includes a combination of software and services
necessary for a quick and low cost implementation of CATIA and
SmarTeam.
„ Design Express has been designed for “plug & play” use within your
company, without any customisation other than the name of the users
and the installation and working directories.
„ A Design Express project does not include the CATIA V5 project : the
installation of CATIA V5 workstations and CATIA V5 user training are
prerequisites.
„ The project incorporates:
„ Training of users on the Collaborative CATIA Design Management
methodology
„ Validation of methodologies at the customer site
„ Execution of methodology
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„ Design Express is packaged as an out-of-the-box application:
„ The approach was developed through implementing SmarTeam for many
Using SmarTeam in the CATIA Environment
Design Collaboration:
Work concurrently around the same assembly
always accessing accurate information
Project based navigation
Arrange per product, per
customer, per order
Organization:
Built-in structure and rules to
leverage traceability and reuse
Management of CATIA V5 relations
View relations between all CATIA V5 data
immediately, such as parts, assemblies,
drawings, etc. …
Change Management
Support the lifecycle and
different revisions of all
documents
Promote Reuse
Business standards
management
Extend secure access
Allow non-CAD users to visualize
CAD data
Impact analysis
Be aware of the impact of engineering changes
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5.2
5.3
Deliverables
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Pre-configured database with data model for optimized CATIA V5
collaborative design management
Methodology Guide to steer the implementation in your engineering
department
Delivery Notebook to track your implementation, from software
installation through to completion of the final checklist after training
and review of the methodology
Technical training materials, including demonstration
Value proposition explaining how to expand beyond engineering /
design department management out to management of the full
product lifecycle across your enterprise
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The “quick start package” provides:
Typical Design Express Implementation
Proposition for an operational project program
The project teams
CUSTOMER
Business Partner
• 1 project manager
• 1 SmarTeam Consultant
• 1 System Engineer
• users
Project Scope
Generic SmarTeam Design Express Project without
customization
Customizations – outside scope of SDE implementation
Installation (Vault Server, Data Base Server, Backups...)
User Training
Assistance for site commissioning
Hotline (optional)
Maintenance
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5.4
1
What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?
2
How SDE Resolves your PDM Challenges
3
Customers
4
Key Differentiators
5
Typical Project Plan
6
Next Steps: Beyond Design Express
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Agenda
Beyond SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA
The initial objective of SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA is to
provide an out-of-the-box solution for the design department which
meets all the basic needs.
However the openness of SmarTeam and CATIA allow you to
extend beyond these basic needs. There are various ways to
expand beyond the first step:
„
Inside the design department enhancing the basic
implementation with company-specific needs
„ Inside the engineering department extending the management
of product data to include release and change processes
„ Across the enterprise to manage all product data and processes
during all stages of the product / project lifecycle
„ Across the supply chain to manage design and product data
with your OEM’s or suppliers
Your company decides when to take the next step – SDE provides the
foundation for the future !
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Important to Note: Additional SmarTeam Benefits
„ Easy to implement and very scalable:
„ No need for costly software programming teams
„ No need for full-time, expert system administrator
„ Easy to implement within the context of an enterprise business system
environment (ERP, etc)
„ User Interface easy to tailor for each typical user:
„ Design Engineer / Manufacturing Engineer
„ Purchasing Agent
„ Sales Representative / Pre-sales or Marketing
„ Customer Support / Documentation Writer
„ Project Manager
„ Database Structure is easy to customise
„ Add / Change attributes
„ New object / document / form add on or edit
„ Easy graphical WORKFLOW Design and Execute process
(beyond SDE)
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