Functional Value

Streamline the color and material validation process by giving the new capability to edit core and cover materials applied to an Engineering Item. Strengthen the management of alternates by offering the new possibility to see where alternates are used, leveraging the Relational Explorer. Enhance integration with change management process by allowing an alternate to be included in the proposed changes. Support industry specific business process for part number identification: capability to prevent part number modification across versions once it has been set. Improve awareness and control of data location (DB or Index) when analyzing or authoring engineering data. Accelerate the engineering process by bringing the capability to Drag & Drop a filtered Engineering Item directly to the 3DPlay. Simplify exchange with external systems by providing new web services to manage Engineering Item Instance extensions and subtypes.