Software enables collaboration across value chain.
Press Release Summary:
Product Lifecycle Management v5.14 enables enterprise to innovate and manage products and related services throughout business lifecycle. Web-based Lifecycle Application Navigator combines product information access, 2D/3D Web viewing, instant collaboration, and lifecycle management services. Instant collaboration allows designers to informally co-design in asynchronous mode or in real-time. Users can structure, share, and re-use intellectual capital to facilitate decision-making.
Original Press Release:
PLM Solutions V5.14 - Imagine and Work as One
Overview
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a strategic business approach that enables an enterprise to effectively and efficiently innovate and manage its products and related services throughout the entire business lifecycle.
Manage Product, Process and Resource lifecycles - Improve employee productivity by efficiently managing end-to-end processes - from initial requirements to retirement - integrating products with the processes and resources used to make them.
V5.14 delivers a new Web-based Lifecycle Application (LCA)
Navigator combining product information access, 2D/3D Web
viewing, instant collaboration, and lifecycle management services.
V5.14 further extends the Virtual Product Modeling (VPM) Navigator by enabling filtering and navigation within the virtual 3D product representation, as well as enhancing change and control mechanisms.
In addition, powerful decision impact evaluation further extends relational design practices, as well as an understanding of engineering decisions on manufacturing processes.
Collaborate across the value chain
- New collaboration capabilities help you and your partners to work as one. Instant collaboration allows designers to informally co-design either in asynchronous mode or in real-time for faster product development, and to review, share
and discuss directly within the configured digital mock-up for
real-time decision support. Engineering packages containing rich
product relationships can be replicated and reconciled across
company boundaries, thereby enabling relational design practices
across the supply chain while protecting corporate intellectual
property.
Accelerate innovation - Drive business innovation within your
company to reach the market at the ideal time with innovative products that customers demand. V5.14 delivers a new breakthrough styling product for industrial designers, unleashing creativity, and allowing more product ideas to be explored faster.
V5.14 delivers industry-tailored, process-centric solutions fostering business transformation and supporting new practices in many areas, including: composites, NC machining, electrical systems design, machining tolerancing and machining operations balancing.
Structure, share and re-use intellectual capital - Improve
decision making and knowledge reuse by exposing, sharing and
managing engineering intent, specifications, rules and tolerancing data within the product structure - helping you capture and retain corporate intellectual capital.
Connect, integrate and automate your enterprise - Streamline your processes and maximize your PLM investment and business ROI by leveraging the proven openness framework and industry standards support of V5.14.
Lattice Technology joins the Component Application Architecture
(CAA) V5 Software Community Program to provide technical publication applications enhanced with a comprehensive 3D XML open format. 3D XML for PLM enables users to create and share live 3D data quickly and easily in a lightweight XML-based format. Also, enhanced IBM WebSphere® support fosters seamless PLM integration.
Key prerequisites
Depending on your application, PLM solution products can be used on a number of platforms and database solutions. Refer to each individual announcement for details.
At a glance
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions provide an open,
collaborative product development environment. PLM helps you
innovate with exciting products that meet, or anticipate customer demands, introduce innovative products that expand your revenue streams, and increase the speed and agility of your product development while reducing risk.
V5.14 allows you to:
o Manage Product, Process, and Resource lifecycles to dramatically increase your employees' productivity
o Collaborate across the value chain to work as one with your
customers and partners to develop industry leading products
o Accelerate innovation to reach the market at the ideal time
with innovative products that customers demand
o Structure, share and re-use intellectual capital to improve
your decision-making
o Connect, integrate and automate your enterprise by
streamlining your processes and building your product development environment on open standards
PLM Solutions V5.14 consists of the following products:
o CATIA V5.14
o ENOVIA V5.14
o SMARTEAM V5.14
o CAA RADE V5.14
o Web-based Learning Solutions (WLS) V5.14
Planned availability date:
November 5, 2004
