The Electronics industry shares many of its needs with discrete manufacturing. While components are pivotal, a need exists to reuse already designed parts in different products, in order to optimize production processes and the related planning and inventory issues. In this sector too, this makes it essential not to limit a collaborative approach to within the company, rather extend it to customers and suppliers too.

With our solutions based on Framework Collaboration Desktop, electronic CAD tools are easily integrated within the product lifecycle. Different PLMs are able to communicate with each other, while contents from diverse types and sources can finally enter the cycle. They aren’t individual pieces of information anymore, handled manually –they become part of a rationalized legacy shared across the company.

While integrated collaboration makes customer and supplier relations easier, it also dramatically increases the reuse rate of already designed parts. Planning and controlling new component designs becomes much easier. Production processes, planning and inventory are therefore optimized, for more effective results.