BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

How do you know if your engineers have the correct skills to utilize all of the benefits SOLIDWORKS can offer?

The Skills Assessment session is ideal for companies who have grown their team of SOLIDWORKS users or for situations where your current team could benefit from advancement in the software knowledge.

The personalised assessment method allows us to test candidates in any area pertinent to their role or your company’s specific needs.

Your CAD data is one of the most valuable assets of your business, but what’s the current state of its health?

Have you seen missing files when opening, lost external references or multiply copies of the same file?

If the answer is yes, these are all signs of a system in a bad state of health and needs to be resolved before a problem occurs resulting in a significant financial impact on your business!

This session reports on the hardware you are using to run SOLIDWORKS, offering advice to optimize its set up and makes recommendations where it falls short. We also look at your design workflow, offering quick fix advice to improve efficiencies to reduce time to market.

If your team report SOLIDWORKS 'crashing' or 'performance' issues related to speed or graphics this services helps to prove whether or not your hardware is at fault.

Your company has invested in SOLIDWORKS software and training, but are your engineers producing the designs in the most efficient way?

In this interview style session, we converse with your design engineers to understand exactly what needs to be achieved with SOLIDWORKS, understanding your design process from A - Z. Then advise on best practices and workflow to allow them to design more efficiently. A number of small changes to your process can drastically reduce the overall time to market.

Do you want to improve the deployment and use of CAM within your organisation, discuss general issues you are experiencing, or understand how to achieve your plans for the future? This general visit will allow you to tap into our highly experienced applications engineer’s knowledge and skills with an open discussion onsite meeting.

Across the interview style sessions we will understand exactly what needs to be achieved with your manufacturing solution. The expert advisor on site with you for the day will give verbal advice throughout but after the visit a written report including any recommendations will be provided.

Each new release of SOLIDWORKS PDM includes enhancements that impact the user experience, but more important are the changes within the software itself that allow customers to refine or extend their use of SOLIDWORKS PDM to gain further benefits from the implementation. Not finding the time to understanding the benefits of new features, where they could be used and how best to integrate them into the existing Vault configuration, is the main reason why implementations stagnate.

Following a high-level overview of what’s new in the latest release, we will review your existing configuration and use cases, providing feedback on any best practice and configuration changes that could be implemented to allow you to design more efficiently. Agreed changes will then be implemented and tested.

Following a high-level overview of what’s new in the latest release for PDM, we will review your existing configuration and use cases, providing feedback on any best practice and configuration changes that could be implemented to allow you to design more efficiently.

For customers with more complex implementations that may also include off the shelf or bespoke add-ins, implementing changes directly into a live Vault adds an increased degree of risk. To mitigate that risk, we will copy the production vault as a ‘sandbox’ environment in which to test / validate proposed changes.

For customers with bespoke customisations, we would agree a test protocol based on any known / expected outcomes that would then be used as part of the validation and prior to transferring the updates into the live vault.

Our SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard (STD) to PDM Professional (PRO) onsite Training Workshop supports customers who are upgrading their PDM platform and want to get the most out of their investment. During this workshop, we also provide hands-on PDM PRO Administrator training using a copy of the customer's upgraded PDM PRO vault, allowing you to refine and validate the changes before deploying them to the live environment.

The workshop training focuses on the training topics that are most relevant to the system configuration that will be employed in the customer’s upgraded PDM vault, including an administrative overview of standard and custom add-ins, templates and best practice workflows from our flagship ‘FOUNDATION’ implementation package.

As a critical business system within your organisation, the ongoing health of your SOLIDWORKS PDM installation should be of paramount concern.

The purpose of this technical health check is to review and document the current configuration, allowing us to advise on any errors or inconsistencies that could affect performance or create future upgrade risks.

The ASSIST service is designed for customers who have already deployed PDM and now require additional onsite or remote assistance with the configuration or usage of the Vault.

Click details below to find the typical scope of the ASSIST service we offer

The SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional Training Workshop provides tailored PDM PRO administration training in the context of the customer’s existing PDM PRO vault. The training is designed for customer employees who are new to the role of PDM Administration, with the workshop training putting an emphasis on the training topics that are most relevant to short and long-term development plans for the Customers PDM environment. The training also includes an administrative overview of any custom add-ins and other bespoke system configuration deployed in the customer’s vault.

During a PDM Performance Review we will discuss your original, current, and future data management goals in order to identify any gaps in the current solution and document the steps required to close them. After completing the review, we will then carry out a Technical Health Check to review and document the current infrastructure. This will allow us to advise on any errors or inconsistencies that could be affecting performance or that could introduce risks for future upgrades.

SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional (PDM PRO) is able to replicate vault data from a central server and efficiently distribute the information to design teams in multiple design locations. PDM PRO File replication enables file synchronisation between remote servers regardless of geographic location so everyone is working with the correct file version. New files and file versions can be replicated “On Demand” by the users or file replication can be scheduled periodically when network usage is low. This service is designed for customers who have already deployed PDM PRO and where the system is in production use in the main location and now want to implement PDM PRO at another remote location for the first time or to improve performance and user experience for PDM PRO users currently accessing and copying files across the Wide Area Network (WAN)

Your SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional (PDM PRO) Vault is accessible through a web server (Web2.0) providing access from most devices with an internet browser. When implemented within a companies Firewall as an Intranet site the Web2.0 client is beneficial for internal users requiring occasional access via mobile (WiFi Connected) devices or fixed terminals using unsupported operating systems for the Desktop Client (e.g. MacOS).

For customers looking to replace tired or obsoleted hardware we can assist with the reinstallation and migration of your existing infrastructure to replacement hardware. This service would also include the update of a number of clients to re-point the ‘Vault View’ to the new Server name(s).

The purpose of this service is to help your PDM Administrator or IT Professionals understand the steps involved in preparing for and then executing a Disaster Recovery, should you need to rebuild a copy of a PDM vault after your SOLIDWORKS PDM infrastructure becomes inoperable, inaccessible, or damaged as the result of unplanned disasters.

There are many factors to consider when upgrading PDM Standard or Professional, don't risk overlooking something important and compromising the health of your company's CAD data our PDM team can ensure your upgrades are done correctly with minimal disruption to your team.

Services range from single-site upgrades to multi-site replicated environments and for customers moving to SOLIDWORKS PDM 2022 we can also assist with any SQL Server Migrations / Upgrades.

This service combines a Server Relocation with an Upgrade to assist those customers who find that their current infrastructure is no longer suitable for a future version of SOLIDWORKS PDM.