Integrated and built on a common data management architecture with the V6 authoring applications (CATIA®, DELMIA®, and SIMULIA®), ENOVIA® VPM® Central helps medium to large companies take more innovative products to market faster by providing collaborative virtual product management (VPM) of complex product, process, and resource information — from marketing and design to manufacturing and maintenance.
ENOVIA® VPM® Central™ manages design, manufacturing, and simulation of intellectual property (IP). Its sophisticated technology enables design reuse through a part catalog, providing design review and validation, exchange of information with partners, leverage of customers’ V4 and V5 legacy data, and scalability to handle large number of users and complex products.
Users of ENOVIA VPM Central can work on predefined design tasks, subscribe to design modifications and perform design impact analyses to evaluate potential alternatives or changes. Specific add-ons allow further expansion of this scope by enabling users to work on configured products, manage and track design changes, perform complete digital validation process and execute comprehensive interferences-analysis to name a few.
ENOVIA® VPM® Central helps companies optimize product designs with potential variations in mind, allowing engineers to perform these advanced functionalities within a portfolio of configured products.
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Description :
Enable Multi-discipline Engineering Collaboration
ENOVIA VPM Central manages all V6 authoring data in one unique environment and one single database promoting collaboration across different teams and disciplines (design, manufacturing, simulation). The product provides users with access to all Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) management tools (versioning, maturity, lock / unlock, etc). ENOVIA VPM Central automatically determines assembly components that are out-of-date, delivering the right context quickly for accurate and fast updates. By synchronizing the enterprise Engineering Bill of Materials (EBOM), defined using ENOVIA Engineering Central (ENG), and engineering product structure, ENOVIA VPM Central keeps a consistent and updated view between enterprise and engineering disciplines.
Assess Impact of Design Modifications in Real-Time
Users can navigate between design components and related items such as other designs, simulations, drawings, manufacturing processes, functional and logical views, etc. Better decision-making occurs when a user can determine the impact of design modifications.
Follow Design Modifications in Real-Time
Users can subscribe via emails and pop-ups to modification warnings delivered on any object (design, manufacturing, simulation) in the database. Product development enhancements occur more quickly as concurrent engineering intensifies.
Manage Engineering Tasks
ENOVIA VPM Central helps companies become more agile because changes are executed faster when tasks are defined explicitly, fully-documented, and all affected-components are attached. Accurate progress assessment occurs because tasks are linked directly to projects and programs, which makes design activity directly visible to the project leader. Leaders can assign tasks to different designers, reviewers, etc. as project responsibilities change.
Access Design Components Catalog for Quick Reuse
Users can create and reuse catalogs of any objects and disciplines. Catalog creators can add keywords enabling users to find and retrieve information quickly. The VPM design components catalog is synchronized with the enterprise libraries from ENOVIA Library Central to ensure company-wide consistency.
Perform Digital Review
ENOVIA VPM Central provides 3D digital review tools with annotations, markup, etc. so users can collaborate more efficiently.
Tailor Your Environment to Fit Business Process Practices
Customers can configure their existing VPM data model to better fit their business processes. They can also define specific roles with different access rules to further protect their IP.
Migrate Data from Legacy Dassault Systèmes PLM Systems
Using ENOVIA VPM Central, customers can import and export CATIA® V4 and V5 files as well as ENOVIA® VPM® V4, and ENOVIA® Designer Central™, ENOVIA SmartTeam data and metadata into V6 so existing IP is efficiently leveraged.
Extend Capabilities with Dedicated Virtual Product Management Add-ons
- ENOVIA® VPM® Configured Structure Definition (CSD) provides the manipulation and review of product data in the engineering work in process (WIP) environment.
- ENOVIA® VPM Configured Environment (CGE) enables engineers to filter and navigate on product configurations, design in a configured context and define specific effectivity values for added and modified product components.
- ENOVIA® VPM Change Tracking (CHT) provides engineers with full control and traceability of design modifications through the various stages of the product development cycle (design, manufacturing, maintenance, etc).
- ENOVIA® VPM Interference Check (PIC) helps companies increase product design quality by enabling designers to detect product interferences and correct errors earlier in the product development process.
- ENOVIA ® VPM Interference Manager (PIM) improves design quality, enhances time to market, and keeps costs in control by detecting, tracking, and managing interferences on complex and large digital mockups.
- ENOVIA® VPM Digital Validation (DVA) enables engineering managers and project leaders to oversee and participate in collaborative digital mockup reviews, packaging, and pre-assembly analyses.
- ENOVIA® System Functional Logical Definition (DFL) helps designers define the functional and logical aspects of a product and link them to the physical definition of a product, ensuring a full traceability from product specifications to the actual 3D design.
- ENOVIA® VPM Supply Chain Collaborative Engineering (VSC) enables OEMs and suppliers to share ENOVIA VPM Central managed product structure information.
- ENOVIA® VPM CATIA V4 & V5 Coexistence (V5C) enables CATIA® / ENOVIA® V4/V5 customers to work on CATIA® V6 projects while leveraging existing investments and intellectual property (IP).
- ENOVIA® VPM Configured STEP Interface (STP) imports large STEP files into V6.
- ENOVIA® VPM Volume Computation (VOC) provides the ability to create alternate representations of products or assemblies for size reduction or for the creation of geometry creation better suited to specific contexts.
ENOVIA VPM Central and ENOVIA VPM Team Central are both used to manage IP work-in-progress from the V6 authoring tools. However, ENOVIA VPM Central provides the following additional capabilities:
- Configure existing VPM data to better fit your business processes by adding additional information such as specific attributes, specific rights and more.
- Follow design modifications in real-time through a subscribe mechanism.
- Assign and manage engineering tasks to better organize activities.
- Better understand all relationships between objects, using the impact analysis tool.
- Enhance your PLM environment with a large set of ENOVIA add-on products.
The Role of ENOVIA V6 and PLM 2.0
ENOVIA VPM Central supports PLM 2.0, product lifecycle management online for everyone, and the ENOVIA V6 values: global collaboration innovation, single PLM platform for intellectual property (IP) management, online creation and collaboration, ready to use PLM business processes, and lower cost of ownership.
Customer benefits :
With ENOVIA VPM Central and its add-ons you can more efficiently manage work-in-progress product information and improve collaboration and innovation with the ability to:
- Manage product IP within the entire development lifecycle with a high level of changes traceability and global access to stored documents.
- Leverage company expertise to accelerate evaluation of alternatives and enable knowledgeable decisions.
- Represent accurately product variations in engineering and the enterprise to optimize customer value in every market.
- Allow concurrent definition to reduce design to manufacturing lead time and fosters search for best design alternatives.
- Harness collective intelligence to produce better products, quicker.
- Align engineering work-in-progress and enterprise business processes to improve communication for faster results.