Digital Design Communication Data Sheet: Unlocking Product Data for Collaborative Product Development

Strategies Overview – Digital Design Communication (DDC):

Collaborative Product Development (CPD) can only be effective when all participants in the effort have access to the product design in the collaborative process. Current technology for visual communications is playing catch up with collaborative process.

Tools knowledge workers must have:

  • Data Management Tools – Gather and Package Data for others to use.
  • Visualization Tools – Display and Manipulate 2D Drawings and 3D Solid Models
  • Communications Tools – Markup, Redline and Comment
  • Workflow Tools – Document Informational Elements to Establish Context

Key DDC Functionality Issues:

Over 60% of U.S. manufacturing companies currently outsource some part of their design and product development.

Effectively communicating design and manufacturing data across multiple business functions, geographic locations and supplier/customer firms – is Bottom Line Crucial.

Key DDC Benefits:

Digital Design Communications lets knowledge workers access, communicate and distribute multiple computer-aided design (CAD) formats throughout the enterprise and the supply chain. It lets workers disseminate change information. It spawns active collaboration where users act on 2D/3D data even though they might not have the native CAD system that generated the original version of the data.

Actify Products Suite for DDC Solutions:

The Actify suite of products forms a platform for Digital Design Communication, an approach where people access, work with, share and re-purpose 2D and 3D design images and/or product data without the need for the Native CAD system on which the design was created. Actify: Product Data Anywhere.

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