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SmarTeam Design Express:Competition Overview

The fastest, simplest way to build your PLM on a solid foundation

SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA

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Agenda

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What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?

Customers

Key Differentiators

How SDE Resolves your PDM Challenges

Typical Project Plan5

Next Steps: Beyond Design Express6

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1.1 Getting the most out of your CATIA

CATIA is an extremely powerful product development environment for creating large and complex 3D assembliesEach assembly contains an enormous volume of valuable information:

Part - InstancesPart - References and LinksProduct - StructuresDocumentsAssembly FeaturesConstraintsContext Information and much more...

As your design team collaboratively creates and modifies designs, you quickly accumulate a wealth of data that is difficult to manageSmarTeam Design Express gives you the tools and methods to better leverage that powerful data

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1.1 What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?

SmarTeam is a Windows-based PDM system that secures product data of all kinds in a robust database and enables you to easily control and manipulate that dataSmarTeam 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 needa dedicated training packAn 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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1.1 What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?Optimized collaborative CATIA design and data management

SHARING - All documents in the engineering department are managed in such a 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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1.1 What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?

Proven methodologies for CATIA design teams to optimally and efficiently create, organize, change and share data:

Straightforward User Scenarios Optimized CATIA V5 settings for executing the user scenariosMethodology support for cataloguesBusiness methods for CATIA V5Tools for title block and BOM managementDedicated training program

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Agenda

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What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?

Customers

Key Differentiators

How SDE Resolves your PDM Challenges

Typical Project Plan5

Next Steps: Beyond Design Express6

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Design Express resolves the most basic PDM challengesfacing the CATIA Design Team 2.1

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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1 Store, structure and secure your data

Store: Collect and store all product-related data on a single, secure server.

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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1 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 pre-configured 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

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

“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

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1 Securing and structuring valuable product knowledge

Secured CAD Data Management

“Protecting your most valuable asset”

FileSystem

DatabaseVault

FormsInterface

Files and Documents

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2 Tracking changes to documents

Maintain each revision of the document, enabling access to and reuse of each revision, as well as comparison to previous versions

Keep track of the changes made to each document as it matures, without ever renaming the document or copying it to another directory.

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2 Tracking revisions, versions and product history

Challenge: Reuse of parts in 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.

Benefits: Full visibility into design processes

Avoid errors caused by using wrong revision

Comply with standards requiring product history

“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

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3 Efficiently search for the right data within context

Search by attribute; saved searches

Click once to see in which assemblies a design part has been usedFind out via a product or part search if a 3D design exists Quickly locate all documents associated with any project.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

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3 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

Benefits:Save valuable time consumed in file administration

Avoid redundant design through quicker location of existing files

“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

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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 timeSafely 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.

4 Controlled sharing of documents by multiple users

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4 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

Benefits: Drive innovation through meeting of

mindsRaise productivity through efficient

allocation of design resourcesReduce bottlenecks via better

visibility into joint design tasks

”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

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CAD Data Management in Design Office

FileSystem

DatabaseVault

StandaloneAccess

3D Viewer Interrogate &

Markup

FormsInterface

Files and Documents Multiple

User Control

4 Collaborative Design Management

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5 Promote the reuse of standards and existing data

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

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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5 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

Benefits: Reduce inventory overhead and

delays due to inefficient sourcingSpeed time to market and drive

innovation by reusing existing designs

“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)

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Specifications and Documentation

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

FEA3D Models

6 View variety of data formats

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6 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

“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,” Jean-Pierre Bregeon, ABMI, project engineering firm, France

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.

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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DatabaseVault

SolidEdgeInventor

Viewing many data formats

AutoCADTechnical

Publications

CATIA

Quote Request

Price Quote

Marketing Presentations

Pro/Engineer

Data Sheets

SolidWorks Any File Type“Managing data in a mixed environment”

6 View Various Data Formats without Native Applications

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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

2.1 Design Express Resolves your Basic PDM challenges

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Agenda

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What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?

Customers

Key Differentiators

How SDE Resolves your PDM Challenges

Typical Project Plan5

Next Steps: Beyond Design Express6

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3.1 Customers Using SmarTeam to Manage CATIA Data

Aesculap, medical equipment, France AGME, industrial machinery, SpainAircraft Braking Systems, aerospace components,USA

ARC International, consumer products, France Automatic Systems, industrial automation systems,Belgium

Electrolux, consumer products, USA Evernham Motorsports, automotive, USAFranz Viegener (Viega), industrial equipment,Germany

Gnatus, medical equipment, BrazilHeroux Devtek, aerospace components, Canada Huber & Suhner, industrial equipment, GermanyIntegral 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, CanadaMagellan Aerospace, aerospace components, UKMaschio Group, agricultural machinery, Italy Microturbo, aerospace components, USA NSC Schlumberger, industrial machinery, France Peltor, consumer goods, Sweden Sanyo Machine Works, industrial equipment, USASDMO Industries, industrial components, FranceSecuristyle, consumer goods, UKSennheiser, electronic consumer goods, GermanyShaanxi Aircraft Industry Co., aerospace, ChinaSiemens VDO, automotive components, GermanySintered Products, div. Federal Mogul, automotivecomponents, FranceSnecma Propulsion Solide (SPS), aerospace components, France

Volvo Construction Equipment (VCE), industrialequipment, Belgium

and many more….

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Aircraft Braking Systems

Company Profile: 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

BusinessChallenges:

Coordinating disparate systemsSpeeding up RFQ response to companiesReducing time to marketMeeting aerospace industry regulatory and safety-compliance requirements

Solution: SmarTeam Engineering Config, Workflow and CATIA TDM IntegrationSmarTeam supports concurrent engineering processes across ABSC’s design team, including management of FEA associativity and analysis models and of the multiple CATIA V5 files generatedIntegration with ERP: in prolonged benchmark SmarTeam won over SAP PLM

Benefits: Flexibility, customization, and seamless integration to CATIA lets ABSC optimally manage FEA dataHigh usability makes interaction easy even for thoseoutside engineering

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Maschio Group

Company Profile:

BusinessChallenges:

MASCHIO GROUP of Italy is a leading global supplier of agricultural machinery

Maintain high growth in a stagnant WW marketMeet market deadlines: Missing springtime season costs an entire year of potential salesRe-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

“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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Franz Viegener (Viega)

Company Profile:

BusinessChallenges:

Solution:

Developing water distribution systems for the building industry.HQ Germany, international group, 2000 employeesCAD systems in use: PCADAM, CATIA V4Enterprise ERP solution with SAP

Deliver more product innovationReduce costs through better standard part offering3D prototyping of design solutionsProduct simulation before fabrication processesCollaboration across multi-sitesIntegration with existing Viega legacy solutions

SmarTeam Editor and TDM manageCATIA data (50 CATIA V5 seats)SmarTeam Links to SAP ERP solutionSmarTeam Links to Viega legacy solutions

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Peltor

CompanyProfile:

BusinessChallenges:

Solution:

Launch more new products while maintaining short development cyclesDeliver innovative products with superior functionality and ergonomicsAdapt products to local standards and customer needsShare product data across company, including global after-sales teamsStrong integration between CAD (CATIA V5) and PDM

SmarTeam Editor, Web Editor, Workflow and CATIA-IntegrationComprehensive capture and organized storage of product information with all its related documents and dataImproved collaboration between different teams Structured, managed working processesStrong integration between CAD (CATIA V5) and SmarTeam

Part of the Aearo group, Peltor, HQ Sweden, manufactures a broad range of safety equipmentNet Sales 2003 – US$ 316 million, up 10.3% over 2002 1500 employees worldwide

Develop + 70% more new products in same time periodReduce 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

Benefits:

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Sintered Products, division of Federal Mogul, France Sintered Products

CompanyProfile:

BusinessChallenges:

Solution:

Benefits:

Increase productivity and strengthen collaboration between Design Office and other data users and applicationsOptimize data security and management, track modifications and maintain pre-project historiesLeverage corporate knowledge through improved processing of clients’ engineering data

SmarTeam Editor and CATIA TDM Integration and Multi-site Migration of multi-CAD legacy data (CATIA V4, Pro/E, Medusa and CDM)

Rapid productivity gains;Reliable, open access to specific, accurate information powers communications;Rapid ramp-up, training and support facilitates quick, broad user acceptanceImplemented strategy to improve quality and reduce development times in less than one year

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

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Agenda

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What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?

Customers

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Typical Project Plan5

Next Steps: Beyond Design Express6

Key Differentiators

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ENOVIA brands offer the only native, best-in-class CATIA integration on the market;

Competitors do not have the knowledge and focus to build an integration that 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

Why Design Express over the Competition?4.1

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SmarTeam provides the built-in flexibility that allows you to start bymanaging 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

Why Design Express over the Competition?4.2

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4.3 Why Design Express over the Competition?

SmarTeam’s flexible data model, open API and foundation on proven, mainstream components makes the product more flexibleand 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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4.4 Why Design Express over the Competition?

SmarTeam has from its inception been geared to the needs of 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 DassaultSystèmes’ and ENOVIA brands

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4.5 Why SmarTeam Design Express?

Key Differentiators:

Small added investment to get a higher return on existing CATIA investmentBest in class, native CATIA IntegrationPrepackaged software and services “quick start” kit Robust data model tailored for collaborative designProven user methodology and training programComplete Implementation within 10 daysScalable, customizable system grows with your PLM needs

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Agenda

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What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?

Customers

How SDE Resolves your PDM Challenges

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Next Steps: Beyond Design Express6

Key Differentiators

Typical Project Plan

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5.1 Typical Project Plan

Design Express is packaged as an out-of-the-box application:The approach was developed through implementing SmarTeam for many existing customers. It includes a combination of software and servicesnecessary 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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Extend secure accessAllow non-CAD users to visualize

CAD data

Project based navigationArrange per product, per

customer, per order

Change ManagementSupport the lifecycle and different revisions of all

documents

Promote ReuseBusiness standards

management

Design Collaboration:Work concurrently around the same assembly

always accessing accurate information

Organization:Built-in structure and rules to

leverage traceability and reuseManagement of CATIA V5 relations

View relations between all CATIA V5 data immediately, such as parts, assemblies,

drawings, etc. …

Using SmarTeam in the CATIA Environment5.2

Impact analysisBe aware of the impact of engineering changes

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5.3 Deliverables

The “quick start package” provides:Pre-configured database with data model for optimized CATIA V5 collaborative design managementMethodology Guide to steer the implementation in your engineering departmentDelivery 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 demonstrationValue 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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Project Scope Generic SmarTeam Design Express Project without customizationCustomizations – outside scope of SDE implementation

Installation (Vault Server, Data Base Server, Backups...)User TrainingAssistance for site commissioningHotline (optional) Maintenance

Proposition for an operational project program

CUSTOMER

• 1 project manager• users

Business Partner• 1 SmarTeam Consultant • 1 System Engineer

The project teams

5.4 Typical Design Express Implementation

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What is SmarTeam Design Express for CATIA?

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How SDE Resolves your PDM Challenges

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Key Differentiators

Typical Project Plan

Next Steps: Beyond Design Express

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6 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 needsInside the engineering department extending the management of product data to include release and change processesAcross the enterprise to manage all product data and processes during all stages of the product / project lifecycleAcross 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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6 Important to Note: Additional SmarTeam Benefits

Easy to implement and very scalable:No need for costly software programming teamsNo need for full-time, expert system administratorEasy to implement within the context of an enterprise business systemenvironment (ERP, etc)

User Interface easy to tailor for each typical user:Design Engineer / Manufacturing EngineerPurchasing AgentSales Representative / Pre-sales or MarketingCustomer Support / Documentation WriterProject Manager

Database Structure is easy to customiseAdd / Change attributesNew object / document / form add on or edit

Easy graphical WORKFLOW Design and Execute process (beyond SDE)

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Contact your authorized SmarTeam reseller

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