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FindView® Product Data Alchemist automates discovery of all existing product data assets and provides tools to extract and format information from un-structured, embedded content for loading into enterprise PLM system. Transformation and cleanup routines improve data integrity and terminology consistency then output load files formatted for company specific PLM systems from various vendors.
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Product Sight Introduces FindView Product Data Alchemist
New tool shortens time-to-value for enterprise PLM implementations
Bellevue, WA, December 1, 2004 - Product Sight Corporation, inventors of Search Powered PLM, today announced FindView® Product Data Alchemist. This breakthrough product directly addresses the biggest hurdle to rapid PLM business value by automating discovery of all existing product data assets and provides tools to extract and format information from embedded content for loading into an enterprise PLM system.
Businesses can easily gain 6 to 12 months on their ROI from product lifecycle management implementation and at the same time lower their implementation costs. Many PDM and PLM projects report spending as much or more on data analysis, cleansing, and loading as on the cost of PLM software licenses. FindView Product Data Alchemist immediately solves this bottleneck for a fraction of the cost.
"FindView Product Data Alchemist is a tool that will continue to maximize the value of an enterprise PLM system long after the initial implementation project," said Bruce Winegarden, president and CEO of Product Sight. "It is especially valuable for corporate PLM programs that are working on implementations across multiple divisions. It also has strategic value for quick assimilation of acquired intellectual property assets."
Discovering and migrating all existing product data accumulated over past years is one of the biggest risks and uncertainties a PLM implementation will face.
- Much of the digital information from the past is contained in unstructured text or graphics files.
- Past product data is found in many different formats including drawings from multiple historical CAD systems.
- Estimates on total volume and various types of product data and existing storage locations may be incomplete.
- Different data sources have redundant or contradictory information.
- Current naming and terminology is inconsistent with multiple variations from standard.
The PLM implementation team first needs to understand what types of "As Is" product data are in use today, where it is located, and how many of each type will require what amount of storage. Their job is simplified when they can mine useful information from un-structured content embedded in existing product data. The automatic transformation and cleanup routines improve data integrity and terminology consistency, then output load files formatted for company specific PLM systems from vendors such as: Agile, IBM ENOVIA, IBM SMARTEAM, MatrixOne, PTC Windchill, and UGS Teamcenter.
About Product Sight Corporation
Product Sight is the inventor of Search Powered PLM, the exclusive technology difference to achieve greater PLM business value in record time. Product Sight delivers Practical Solutions for the Real World Product Lifecycle so that engineering and manufacturing companies can immediately start sharing and coordinating up-to-date product data across departments and between global facilities.
FindView and SyncroSpec are part of the Product Sight Lifecycle Environment - Search Powered PLM suite that delivers the first and only virtual repository for product lifecycle management that coordinates multiple sources of managed and un-managed product data. More information available at: productsight.com
FindView is a registered trademark of Product Sight. Product Sight, PSLE, Search-Powered PLM and SyncroSpec are trademarks of Product Sight. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Product Sight Contact:
Bruce Winegarden
bruce.winegarden@productsight.com
(425) 467-7117 x221
