SmarTeam Design Express
by Graham Keating

If your company depends on CATIA technology to get your innovative ideas into the marketplace, how can you make sure that your team takes the ball and runs with it – accessing and reusing design data, collaborating effectively, and developing the right products, on time?

SmarTeam Design Express (SDE) is a quick-start package that enhances your CATIA-based product creation environment by leveraging your company’s knowledge, using a smart, pre-configured methodology to activate this knowledge in order to drive projects quickly to successful completion. Configured to promote efficient collaboration, SDE saves time and prevents errors by enabling easy access and simultaneous work using a centralized source of product data, with built-in control of iterations and document maturity.

SDE offers today’s CATIA users an outstanding opportunity to increase the value of their investment. SDE improves performance and productivity with:

• CATIA-based collaborative design with a native CATIA integration
• Robust pre-configured data model tailored for CATIA management
• Storage, structuring and securing of product data
• Comprehensive tracking of product lifecycle
• Powerful data search mechanisms
• Version control and revision management
• Advanced tools for analyzing the impact of design changes
• Support for standard parts and part and design reuse
• Viewing support for over 450 file formats
• Secure, single-server management; automated back-up
• Ease-of-use
• Ten-day implementation

SDE has been designed for “plug & play” within your company and can be fully implemented within 10 days. This “quick start” is designed to give you full benefits with minimal disruption of your day-to-day operations. After this initial implementation you can easily add further PLM functionality whenever you require. You choose how and when to move forward, by stepping up to a range of PLM options including:

• Enhancing your design methodology according to company specific customized needs
• Automating business process management such as Engineering Change Management
• Item / BOM / configuration management
• Programme management
• Integration of other key enterprise applications
• Web based linking your design management to your OEM’s or suppliers

AEC Seminar 2