OVERCOME THE INFORMATION DISCOVERY CHALLENGE . TRANSFORM DATA ACCESSIBILITY AND RADICALLY IMPROVE THE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT YOU HAVE TODAY .
AUTOMOTIVE GATHER , ORGANIZE AND ENRICH DATA
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OVERCOME THE INFORMATION DISCOVERY CHALLENGE . TRANSFORM DATA ACCESSIBILITY AND RADICALLY IMPROVE THE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT YOU HAVE TODAY .
The single biggest challenge for designers and engineers is to be in agreement and of one mind , which is key to making better decisions and better products overall . It ’ s really about effective communication .
Manufacturing companies that develop new products rely on product data management ( PDM ) and product lifecycle management ( PLM ) software to effectively manage the flow of data between departments and project members . The challenge that traditional PLM systems face is that their usage is constrained to the engineering department , often because of limited time , budget or through lack of adoption due to sheer complexity of PLM offerings for non-technical users . Typically , PLM solutions are not implemented to handle the entire lifecycle of a product or necessary adjustments have not been made to fully exploit the end-to-end lifecycle capabilities . This is because people tend to deploy PLM exclusively within the departments where they perceive they will gain the most value .
Chris Jones – CEO and President , Actify , Inc .
“ I believe it is for this reason senior management perceive that PLM does not provide the promised value to their organization . With a limited implementation scope , the value is often minimized .
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When you restrict the organization ’ s ability to efficiently and effectively manage the flow of product data across the enterprise , information workers are confronted with incomplete data or barriers to access data . This then leads to two possible outcomes ; information workers make bad decisions , or they waste time waiting for more data while disrupting the engineering team to gain access to crucial information . As a result , engineers spend valuable time administering information to the wider enterprise . It is imperative manufacturing companies automate as much mundane work as possible through better use of software tools . With the ever-increasing rates of data creation combined with a global shortage of engineers , this ‘ barrier to data ’ problem is only going to get worse .”
To mitigate this information bottleneck , Actify has developed Centro which acts as an enterprise product data platform , collecting information from multiple product data sources to enable enterprise data accessibility , delivering value to all stakeholders . Actify Centro is an enterprise information platform that is used to integrate a variety of organizational disciplines both within and outside of engineering .
Actify is passionate about using business intelligence to make manufacturing companies smarter by harnessing the product data trapped in all their data sources .
Many of today ’ s manufacturing companies store their data in line-ofbusiness systems like PLM , ERP and Excel spreadsheets , but not everyone has access to these systems , and the user interface may be cumbersome for the casual user . Actify solves this challenge by enabling crossdepartment collaboration , data management and quick access to extended product data that can help make critical business decisions faster .
We believe that software tools can provide tremendous benefits especially for manufacturing companies , through the intelligent use of their available data and through automating mundane processes . At Actify we provide a set of business solutions designed to support the creation , management , dissemination and collaborative use of product data ( i . e . product definition information including BOM structures , CAD files , specifications , requirements , manufacturing instructions , etc .).
Contact Actify for more information . Visit : www . actify . com Email : sales @ actify . com