Fix Your Process Leaks

We know you're always looking to keep your product development pipeline flowing smoothly. An effective process gives you a direct path to higher revenue and higher profits. SolidWorks Enterprise Product Data Management (EPDM) delivers focused solutions that plug productivity leaks and streamline your development process with better information management and project collaboration.

SolidWorks EPDM increases communication with customers, suppliers, and across your own organization to improve product quality and compliance. Eliminating wasteful project activities reduces labor and materials costs to help generate higher margins. Winning more contracts or delivering more products to market faster increases your revenue opportunities. SolidWorks EPDM fixes the leaks to help you grow revenue and profitability.

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The Leak	The Fix SolidWorks & EPDM Solutions	The Impact
A lost or overwritten design file adds time and delays.	Organizes and securely creates design models and documentation	Prevents file overwriting and revision conflicts
Uncoordinated design activity disrupts projects	Manages design documents with multi-site file access, update, and tracking	Eliminates wasteful and redundant design activities
Inability to re-use standard or existing designs	Enables design standardization and search	Re-use designs that can speed bid response and overall development time

The Leak	The Fix SolidWorks & EPDM Solutions	The Impact
Paper-based and email collaboration forces design data re-mastering and process delays	Provides electronic design access to secure central data vault with latest revisions	Efficiently collaborate with suppliers and partners, reducing costs
Unproducible designs	Creates collaborative environment that involves suppliers early in design process	Eliminates unplanned engineering changes
Working from wrong version of design	Manages design files with electronic workflow and notifications	Eliminates expensive scrap and rework

The Leak	The Fix SolidWorks & EPDM Solutions	The Impact
Unproducible designs	Involves manufacturing at early stages of design process	Eliminates expensive scrap and rework
Unplanned engineering changes or excessive time to process engineering changes	Increases design quality through better team collaboration	Compresses Engineering Change Order processing time and reduces expensive scrap and rework
Paper-based or manual creation of work instructions	Easily shares electronic design models for downstream planning and illustrations	Eliminates errors in translating design intent, improves productivity of manufacturing planning

The Leak	The Fix SolidWorks & EPDM Solutions	The Impact
Can't leverage design data so sales and marketing must recreate designs for product illustrations and brochures	Provides 3D data for reuse by sales and marketing	Eliminates data recreation and speeds development of product documentation
Poor bid response time and accuracy	Integrates sales and engineering with up-to-date design data	Create compelling and accurate contract proposals, and improve bid and proposal accuracy for more competitive wins

The Leak	The Fix SolidWorks & EPDM Solutions	The Impact
Poor service quality and inaccurate procedures	Provides 3D design data for use by Services in manuals and work instructions	Reduces time to create service documents and improves quality of documentation
Products not designed for maintainability	Creates collaborative environment that involves Services early in design process	Shortens downtime for planned and unplanned maintenance activities