Data Quality & Usability Improvements
We emphasize data quality in every solution we provide. Data quality drives user adoption, improves workflow automation, reduces IT support, and reduces downstream errors. As data standards change, new business units are added, and new integrations are needed, the quality of data in your system can degrade. Vendor supplied migration utilities used for version/ system upgrades also create low quality data. Once your data quality degrades, engineering costs can rise, and detractors can start pressing for expensive, large scale infrastructure upgrades.
Instead of making significant infrastructure changes, use our tools to standardize, clean, and enrich your existing PDM/PLM data. Our software has the configurability to perform almost any bulk data transformation and upgrade project. We can extract, analyze, repair, transform, enrich, load, and reconfigure your data in your existing PDM/PLM system.
Once data is configured to work correctly in the PDM/PLM system, its users can begin to deliver higher quality products faster and for less cost.
Toolset
Capabilities
Extract, transform, and load data from the same source
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Extract metadata and relationships out of your data already in your production PDM / PLM system
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Analyze, Clean, and Standardize your data in our Data Transformation Engine
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Standardize and update revisions & lifecycle statuses
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Bulk update file names and folder / project locations
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Bulk update Part Numbers, Descriptions, and other metadata
Enrich your data from external sources such as ERP
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Quickly update your data from other BI systems such as ERP
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Select which data is updated
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Apply logic to the update process via our Rules Engine
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Repair / sync Revisions & Descriptions
Compare and repair your BOMs & ECOs
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Compare BOMs
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Automatically create missing Items
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Automatically populate Item metadata
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Add Attachments to your Items
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Intelligently repair or sync Qty and Unit of Measure attributes
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Configure and update Change Management Objects
Improve your CAD-PDM integration
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Identify, Manage, and Repair missing references.
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Standardize your CAD metadata in your CAD files prior to import (create, delete, rename, combine).
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Update your CAD Drawing Sheet templates to your latest standard.
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Repair broken title blocks / attribute mappings.
Benefits
Add the ability quickly integrate new business units, new processes, and new systems. Sometimes there isn’t anything wrong with your data, is just needs to be reconfigured. Bulk updating with an intelligent system can significantly accelerate your infrastructure improvements and improve user adoption.
Integrations require high-quality data. When preparing for an integration it is common to preprocess your data so that it will smoothly transition through your business process integrations with ERP / MRP. This is about eliminating false errors in your business processes caused by poor data quality.
Save engineering time by improving your CAD integration with your PDM/PLM system. As CAD attribute links and relationships begin to fail, the user experience quickly becomes negative. This can lead to increased file open times and poor searchability.
Add the ability quickly integrate new business units, new processes, and new systems. Sometimes there isn’t anything wrong with your data, is just needs to be reconfigured. Bulk updating with an intelligent system can significantly accelerate your infrastructure improvements and improve user adoption.