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What is a PLM solution? |
P.L.M stands for Product Life-cycle Management. This term designates a corporate strategy whose goal is to structure, secure, share product design and manufacturing know-how. The PLM relies on information systems including IT solutions as varied as the CAD, PDM, calculation, digital simulation, CAM...
Source: Wikipedia. The @UDROS suite, produced by Assetium since 1993, is a powerful PDM solution which offers advanced modules for documentary chain management, project follow-up and process automation. @UDROS can also be interfaced with most CAD and ERP solutions availiable on the market.
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What are the advantages for the Design Department and the CAD? |
@UDROS is a vault for your CAD data which allows you to build a unique repository, a source of cost savings and productivity for Design Departments:
- Improvement of archive and extraction control
- Reduction of management and control time
- Recovery reductions
- Collaborative work management on one or several sites
- Acceleration of design lead time
- Capability to reuse 3D models
- Reduction of research time and errors
- More efficient use of existing designs
- Generation of neutral formats available to all
- Automatic deduction of the Design BOM and creation of derived BOMs
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What are the complementarities between @UDROS and an ERP? |
« The ERP supports operations, the PLM manages innovation… »
The PLM approach requires a strong connection with the ERP. Industrialists often underestimate potential cutbacks resulting from better management of exchanges between the Design Chain (PLM) and the Supply Chain (ERP). Indeed, for a single product managed in the ERP, an average of 100 documents have to be managed in design phase and much more data has to be reliably structured, secured and diffused. @UDROS interfaces with ERPs enable you to considerably reduce time to market by automating the BOM transfers and the filling of item sheets, retracing change logs for the customer service by enabling you to calculate production costs during the design phase, etc…
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What are the differences between @UDROS and EDM, Workflow or project management solutions? |
None - @UDROS is a standard tool for documentary management (EDM). Moreover, it offers advanced features for modeling: it allows you to manage any type of data and displays relationships between these data in the form of multi-level structures (CAD BOM, BOM, Business or Project structure, ...) whether it is in composition («child» objects) or in where-used («parent» objects). Optional modules enable you to add features for Workflow (FlowNet / FormaFlow) and Project Management (FlowBoard), which perfectly integrate in @UDROS. They aim at increasing the productivity and rationalisation of product developement processes.
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Why is @UDROS optimised for SMBs? |
Several reasons explain why @UDROS is successful with SMB/SMIs:
- A rapider ROI thanks to its implementation simplicity and a modular offer enabling a deployment on the required functional area
- Powerful customisation capabilities easy to implement
- The guarantee of independance of CAD editors with standardised interfaces for most CAD products available on the market
- The proximity, attentiveness and responsiveness of a human scale editor
- Network of experienced distributors and integrators close by
- PLM expertise for SMI since 1993 (some customers have been using @UDROS for 14 years!)
- The best price-feature ratio on the market!
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Is there a simplified @UDROS version dedicated to the CAD? |
The new @udrosXpress range is a pre-configured « ready-to-use » version of @UDROS, specifically dedicated to Design Departments willing to work collaboratively with the CAD and to make the technical information available on an intranet. @udrosXpress range starts at 1500 €/user and offers interfaces for SolidWorks®, Solid Edge®, Pro\ENGINEER®, CATIA V5®, Inventor®.
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Which department is concerned by the PLM? |
All the company departments are concerned by the implementation of a PLM strategy, but at different levels. Thus, the Design Department is generally the first one to face issues concerning the need for collaborative work and diffusion of CAD drawings. This PDM area can then be widened to Methods, Projects, Quality, Maintenance teams… in order to create a real product information system, backbone of the company's know-how!
>> See @UDROS chart
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What advantages does @UDROS bring? |
@UDROS ensures the uniqueness and validity of product information. It allows each collaborator of the project to access or receive the right information at the right time. The derived advantages are:
- Acceleration of Time to Market
- Reduction of non-quality costs
- Capitalisation and diffusion of know-know which boosts innovation
- Reduction of administrative tasks in design phase
- General improvement in productivity
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What is the solution implementation lead time? |
Depending on the company size and the project scope (regional or company), the implementation lead times vary on average from 1 to 6 months, for a number of day-men going generally from 6 to 60 days. Each @UDROS distributor and integrator contracts on methodology and planning, guaranteeing the projects success.
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How to contact a distributor? |
Contact one of our Project Managers: he will appoint our closest partner who will best statisfy your business requirements.
>>Assetium Contact Details
You can also directly contact one of our resellers.
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