The products your company take to market, how good they are and the speed at which they get there are all important factors when you are looking to succeed in business, not just survive. Engineers and Designers typically create information for other people to interpret and use. Making sure this information is accurate and available at the right time is essential.

When you consider the basic costs of producing product design and definition data including personnel, hardware, software, annual support, training, prototyping and testing etc, it is easy to see that companies invest large sums of money on an ongoing basis. Many companies underestimate the value of this information and the importance in making sure the integrity and security of the data is maintained at all times.

Today’s 3D design systems create very complicated data structures with file to file dependant relationships across many assemblies. By data we are not just talking about 2D drawings and 3D models, we are also talking about all of the product definition documents that are produced using other office based applications.

Managing your data in a file system is fraught with problems such as maintaining the correct file versions, avoiding duplications and risks such as over writing files that have been released or accidentally deleting files.

Although essential, regular backups do not always protect you from the above risks as the file system will not warn you if data has been over written with the wrong information or deleted, you only find out when you next need that information and depending on your backup cycles, you may be out of luck.

Reducing the overhead and headache of managing the data will allow your engineers more time for not only reducing design time cycles but to focus on better more innovative designs. Larger global organisations have been investing in data management solutions for many years that require large investment and involve all of the usual high consulting costs of high end solutions.

DesignDataManager is an affordable off the shelf product that is designed to protect the integrity of your data, streamline your engineering creation and change processes and provide you with full audit tracking, in a managed and controlled easy to use environment, Securing your investment in design by protecting your Engineering IP.