PECM Issue 38 2019 | Page 56

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING PRODUCT DATA INTELLIGENCE ACTIFY UNLOCK OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES AND BUSINESS SUCCESS Future products will be smarter, more interconnected and feature complex. The challenges facing today’s Manufacturers include; labor shortages, increased global competition, economic trends, and keeping up with new technologies. As a result, this places even greater pressure on time and cost while striving to achieve raising standards in quality. How can Actify support manufacturers bring increasingly complex, high-quality products to market within ever shorter product life cycles? We believe that interdisciplinary enterprise collaboration holds the key to unlock operational efficiencies and business success. The enterprise is a multidisciplinary environment. In most cases, business disciplines do not cooperate and tend to carry out their work in remote and siloed business environments. Communication across various disciplines can be highly divergent because of the terminology, methodology, and unique file formats. There are additional cultural and linguistic differences arise when collaborating with geographically dispersed teams, partners and suppliers. Multidisciplinary collaboration involves more than just processing large volumes of enterprise data. Even more important are the different ways in which each discipline views the data and the different capabilities needed for them to perform their work. Actify provides an enterprise solution that enables organizations to align processes, engage stakeholders and act strategically to maximize business results. The software helps companies gain a competitive edge through streamline operations and processes across the enterprise while increasing quality and productivity levels. Actify helps manufacturers collate and organize disparate program data, providing a highly systematic and structured environment for continuous improvement and optimization of today’s heterogeneous enterprise. Actify’s enterprise solutions are designed to complement other enterprise applications and provide the core functionality needed for managing, merging and leveraging data across the enterprise. Actify’s Enterprise Collaboration Platform integrates a host of organizational disciplines and natively supports visualization, collaboration, decision making, and intellectual property protection, among other capabilities. X CA D Actify provides 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.). Actify delivers powerful and affordable Product Data Intelligence solutions to the aerospace, automotive, industrial automation, and discrete manufacturing industries. Actify’s solutions enable designers and knowledge workers alike to participate in product design and development activities, thereby lowering collaboration costs and improving manufacturing performance. Actify is passionate about leveraging available enterprise data to make manufacturing companies smarter by harnessing the product data trapped in all their data sources. Contact Actify for more information. Visit: www.actify.com Email: [email protected] 56 PECM Issue 38