You can deploy SolidWorks® Enterprise PDM in a fraction of the time that comparable solutions require. Plus, it’s the only PDM solution that’s completely integrated within Windows® Explorer. You can perform all PDM functions through either the familiar Windows Explorer interface or your CAD system – shortening learning curves and reducing training demands.

With SolidWorks Enterprise PDM (Product Data Management), distributed design teams can manage product data, share design information, automate workflows, and improve collaboration between engineering and manufacturing.

Better products, produced faster and at lower cost.

In a fraction of the time and at far less cost than other enterprise product data management (PDM) systems, you can deploy and integrate SolidWorks® Enterprise PDM.

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM advantages:

• Easy to implement and use.

• Scalable to provide secure data access for design teams of all sizes, in any geographic location. 

• Global to enable companies to manage data at multiple locations with automatic file replication at each site.

• Automated to support workflow processes such as engineering change notice (ECN)/engineering change order (ECO) with flexible notification. 

• Compatible to support integration and connectivity to material requirements planning (MRP)/enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.  

• Reliable to provide full audit trails that help satisfy governmental documentation regulations.

Secure Access

	Protect your product design data with secure managed access to authorized individuals, over a network or via the web. In addition to internal users, you also can permit access to partners, customers, and your supply chain.
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Revision Control

	Help your design team avoid overwriting files, and assist purchasing and manufacturing in ordering and producing the correct parts every time.
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Full Document Preview

	View and print more than 250 file types–including SolidWorks, AutoCAD®, Inventor®, Solid Edge®, PDF, and Microsoft® Office–plus images, animations, movie files, and more.
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Find and Reuse Design Data

	Quickly locate documents based on their names, contained data, attached metadata, workflow state, and other parameters. For even greater productivity, you can predefine, save, and share your searches.
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Custom Configuration

	SolidWorks Enterprise PDM is fully configurable to work effectively within your unique team structure, design process, and industry.
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Scalability

	As your design organization grows, you’ll work with the same high level of speed, functionality, and security.
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Distributed Design Teams

	For multisite, multinational companies, SolidWorks Enterprise PDM supports document/drawing vault replication over a WAN, making current design information immediately available worldwide.
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Remote Access

	Increase the productivity of designers, managers, and sales/marketing personnel by permitting remote access to design data.
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Automated Approval Process

	Improve productivity, quality, and accountability when you engage key users in workflow and approval processes. SolidWorks Enterprise PDM supports automation of workflows, such as engineering change notice (ECN)/engineering change order (ECO) processes, and integration and connectivity to MRP/ERP systems. Plus, automatic email notifications and electronic signatures bring greater efficiency and security to approvals and other data automation initiatives.
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Audit Trail

	Quickly access a full audit trail of product development activities. Meet internal and external compliance reporting requirements. Identify process issues and drive continual improvement to maintain your competitive advantage. What’s more, SolidWorks Enterprise PDM supports the electronic signature and records management requirements of FDA 21 CFR Part 11. So medical device manufacturers can reduce the overhead associated with meeting regulatory compliance obligations.
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