The Design and Manufacturing Collaboration Hub is based on Share-A-space with the scope of sharing design and manufacturing data. This is the prepackaged solution for the extended enterprise sharing design and for organizations looking at design anywhere - manufacture anywhere. Share-A-space features exposed are the viewing of different but coherent BOMs.
The Design and Manufacturing Collaboration Hub is based on Share-A-space and includes in end user functionality using SharePoint and MS Office tools. With the Design and Manufacturing (D&M) Collaboration Hub, a distributed team can use a variety of best of breed authoring tools whilst having access to all relevant product information across the product's lifecycle. Information such as tracing of a part's multiple identities and cross enterprise engineering changes is easily managed making the extended enterprise transparent to all sharing partners.
By using the Design and Manufacturing Collaboration Hub client have experienced drastic cuts in lead time related to engineering change management in the extended enterprise. Another key benefit is the increase in data quality where the consolidated view in Share-A-space provide a staging area before issuing new part IDs for externally supplied parts.
For rapid setup and productivity the Design and Manufacturing Collaboration Hub include:
Adapters
Microsoft Excel import Use a simple Excel sheet to quickly populate Share-A-space with data. Use the same spread sheet to publish updates.
Templates
With the Design and Manufacturing Collaboration Hub you get a pre-defined set of business application templates for rapid start-up.
Reports
Engineering change report View and/or export engineering changes triggered by any partner in the collaboration team.
Part ID report Produce a report with part ID:s in any organizational context.
