SOLIDWORKS Manage
Powerful project, process, and item management capabilities with interactive dashboards and reports.
SOLIDWORKS Manage?
A powerful dashboard and reporting tools that can pull data, including project progress, resource allocation, and quality performance from every aspect of the system and present it in a very easy-to-consume way.
Features
Extend the existing data management capability available for SOLIDWORKS, leveraging your product design data for downstream uses throughout your organization, and enabling more integrated project planning and management.
PDM Connection
SOLIDWORKS Manage is directly connected to your SOLIDWORKS PDM. SOLIDWORKS PDM shows you where this part is used in assemblies and drawings. And now, with SOLIDWORKS Manage, you have visibility to its use in Bills of Materials, Projects, and Engineering Change Requests.
Streamline Processes
Enables more complex and demanding automation for engineering change requests, orders and notices (ECR, ECO, ECN) that could include ad hoc approvers, user tasks, effectivity dates and external participants.
Real-Time Reporting
Real-time Reporting can be tailored per user and can display data in a variety of chart styles to help everyone make sense out of the complex data that is important to them.
Project Dashboards
Information can be presented in an easy-to-understand dashboard that can be tailored not only to display the critical information you need but also to present the right information to the functional areas of your team.
Leverage Existing BOM
With SOLIDWORKS Manage you can leverage the existing mechanical BOM from SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional, as well as capture additional items like tooling, electrical components, and packaging.
Task Lists
SOLIDWORKS Manage reminds users through Task lists. When users log in, they will immediately see their to-do list of tasks. They even display on a calendar so users know when to work on each item.
Capabilities
Powerful dashboard and reporting tools that can pull data, including project progress, resource allocation, and quality performance from every aspect of the system and present it in a very easy-to-consume way. It supports four major functional areas with the following capabilities:
Project Management
Provides critical information to help teams focus on important tasks and provides an overview of resource capacity for better planning and utilization.
- Manage project stages from project inception to completion with start and finish links, Gantt chart, and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) views.
- View overall timelines, critical path, and milestones.
- Assign resources to each stage of the project and view utilization and capacity.
- Assign user tasks to track stage completion and provide users with an up-to-date To-do list.
- Track progress by utilizing user tasks completion, timesheets, or manual updates.
Process Management
Tracks design changes and avoid the errors of manual methods. Track changes and maintain a complete revision history of a design’s evolution.
- Configure states and decision points for all types of engineering and business processes.
- Automatically notify stakeholders via email and/or text messages.
- Attach affected records, files, and other related information.
- Enable ad hoc approvers and automatically assign user tasks.
- Automatically create processes via SOLIDWORKS PDM workflow state changes.
Item Management
Brings together, in one place, all components required for product definition, whether represented by a CAD model, document, or database-only items.
- Create, edit, and compare complete BOMs using records and files.
- Maintain connected but separate BOM variants.
- Automatically or selectively create records for SOLIDWORKS configurations.
- Add virtual configurations for any object type.
- Push BOM data to SOLIDWORKS drawings, including assigned item or find numbers.
Dashboards and Reports
Information can be presented in an easy-to-understand dashboard that can be tailored not only to display the critical information YOU need but also to present the RIGHT information to the functional areas of your team.
- Create interactive graphical dashboards to display critical information.
- Utilize many different types of controls to display information such as charts, graphs, date selectors, and lists
- Configure reports to company standards and publish automatically or on demand.
- Send reports via email attachments in various formats including PDF, Excel®, HTML, and TIFF.
FAQs
No, SOLIDWORKS Manage can incorporate existing PDM data so it can be accessed either through the SOLIDWORKS Manage user interface or via Windows Explorer.
Yes, SOLIDWORKS Manage will utilize activation based serial numbers managed by the SolidNetWork License (SNL) Manager. The licenses will be global and concurrent and will have the same SQL Server licensing requirements as SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional.
No, customers can have a combination of SOLIDWORKS Manage and SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional licenses. SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional clients can still connect to a vault that is connected to SOLIDWORKS Manage, but will not have access to any SOLIDWORKS Manage data.
SOLIDWORKS Manage has extensive configuration capabilities which should be able to handle most situations.
SOLIDWORKS Manage has built-in tools for migrating data from other sources. For special cases not handled by the built in tools, custom scripts may be needed.
SOLIDWORKS Manage runs on SQL Server Standard which will be included with new licenses. SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional licenses that are upgraded would use the same SQL Server licenses provided with the SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional purchase.
Yes, SOLIDWORKS Manage will have its own database that can run on an existing SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional database server instance.
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