SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard | Solid Solutions

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SECURE FILE STORAGE

Standard

Professional

Manage

Manage SOLIDWORKS Files

Manage all SOLIDWORKS documents, including parts, assemblies and drawings.

Manage Other CAD Files

PDM STD: DraftSight Professional
PDM PRO/MANAGE: AutoCAD, Inventor, Creo and Solid Edge

Manage Microsoft Office Files

PDM STD: Through Windows Explorer
PDM PRO/MANAGE: Add-in available for Office 2007 to 2013

Manage Any File

Manage any file, directly Open/Save from any application within a standard Windows explorer.
PDM PRO/MANAGE: Add-Ins for multi-CAD and MS Office

Integrated Search

Quickly and easily find SOLIDWORKS files by searching on metadata (Custom Properties).

File Interaction History (Audit Trail)

Quickly access a full audit trail of product development activities. Meet internal and external compliance reporting requirements. Identify process issues and drive continuous improvement to maintain your competitive advantage.

Find and Reuse Design Data

Quickly locate documents based on multiple parameters including names, contained data, attached metadata and workflow state.

Integrated Preview Powered by eDrawings

Dynamically preview SOLIDWORKS and DraftSight files with the intergrated eDrawings preview window.

Full Document Preview

View and print more than 250 file types, including SOLIDWORKS, AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidEdge, PDF and Microsoft Office, plus images, animations, movie files and many others.
PDM Pro: *Supports over 500+ file formats

Named Bill of Materials

Editable BoM that can be ‘checked in’ and follow Workflow

Manage SOLIDWORKS Simulation Files

Manage all SOLIDWORKS Simulation documents, and studies.

Advanced Search Tools

Perform context based searches to find certain text strings with documents. For even greater productivity you can pre-define, save and share searches.

LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

Revision Control

Help your team avoid overwriting files and help purchasing and manufacturing order and produce the correct parts,every time. *Supports multiple revision schemes and workflows

Automated Approval Process

Increase productivity, quality and accountability when you engage key users in workflow and approval processes.

Conditional Workflow

Automatic email notifications and electronic signatures bring greater efficiency and security to approvals and other data automation initiatives.
PDM STD: Limited to 1

Unlimited Workflow States

PDM Standard is limited to 10

Project Management

Provide critical information to help teams focus on important tasks, and provide an overview of resource capacity for better planning and utilization. Manage project stages, timelines, and milestones along with resource utilization and capacity. Utilize user tasks and timesheets to automatically track progress.

Process Management

Streamline business processes, automate document creation and bring together all involved stakeholders for new products, from sales and marketing to production and support. Configure states and decision points for all types of business processes such as Engineering Change Requests (ECR), Orders (ECO) and Notices (ECN), transmittals and approvals.

Item Management

Create, edit and compare complete bills of materials (BOM) by associating items, files and free text. Manage product variations for different use cases and applications. Drive SOLIDWORKS drawing bill of materials and item numbers directly from system data.

User Tasks

Provide users with the knowledge they need to work more effectively by utilizing tasks and calendars.

CONTROLLED ACCESS

Secure Access

Protect your product design data with secure, managed access for only authorised individuals. In addition to internal users, you can permit access to partners, customers and your supply chain through VPN access. *Supports windows logins

Contributor Client

Add-In for Windows Explorer, enables uses to contribute to the vault.

Viewer Client

Add-In for Windows Explorer, gives users a view into the vault and is sold in packs of 5 users.

Role-Based Parallel Transitions

Comes with SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional & Premium

Distributed Design Teams

For multi-site and multi-national teams, SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional supports document/drawing vault replication over a WAN, making current design information immediately available worldwide.
PDM Pro: *Vault replication within a WAN

Remote Online Access

Increase the productivity of designers, managers and sales/marketing personnel by permitting remote access to design data.
PDM Pro: Fully functional’ web client with mobile version

Paste Shared Links

Comes with SOLIDWORKS PDM Manage

TASK AUTOMATIONS

Transition Actions

PDM STD: Supports only "set variable" actions

Document and Folder Templates

Automatically generate files or folders via template card.

Automatic Serial Number

Configure serial number generators to automatically name files and folders, assign projects and ECN/ECR numbers

Automated Workflow Tasks

Convert SOLIDWORKS files, Export / Import to or from XML

Automated Neutral File Creation

Automatically create neutral files such as PDF's of STEP from SOLIDWORKS files.

Automated Data Import and Export

Automatically import and export data to/from other business systems such as MRP/ERP applications

Conditional & Automatic Transitions

Comes with SOLIDWORKS PDM Manage

REPORTING TOOLS

Email Notifications

Automatic email notifications and electronic signatures bring greater efficiency and security to approvals and other data automation initiatives.
PDM STD: In-built mail client
PDM PRO/MANAGE: Supports SMTP

Scalability

Work with the same high level of speed, functionality and security as your design organisations grows.

Dashboards and Reports

Create and distribute interactive graphical dashboards to display critical information. Display continually updating dashboards on community monitors. Configure reports to company standards and publish automatically or on demand.

Engineering Change Management

Reduce the time to complete your design approval and Engineering Change Order (ECO) processes. Graphically represent the product development process through an easy-to-use flowchart interface. Engineering change documentation and change approvals become completely electronic.

Bills of Materials Management

Maintain, manipulate, and leverage Bill of Materials (BOM) information to support downstream applications and systems. Create individual BOM objects from existing CAD file structures that automatically update in parallel with the evolution of the CAD model, eliminating the frequent manual updates required when using spreadsheets. Connect your CAD data with your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) systems, enabling you to easily update BOM information in other businesses enterprise systems. Use customisable templates to display BOM information in multiple formats or to format BOM information to meet the needs of a user or group.

Microsoft Outlook® Integration

Create new records, like Cases, from Microsoft Outlook® emails based on information in the email including attachments. Copy emails to existing records for reference.

ADD-INS & CUSTOMISATION

Custom Configuration

SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional is fully configurable to work effectively within your unique team structure, design process and industry.

Macro Language and API interface

Speed up workflows by integrating PDM Professional with SOLIDQ Premium.
Utilise programmable API interfaces to create and utilise custom macros to automate repetitive tasks.

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