Enterprise Data Discovery

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1 1 Enterprise Data Discovery TM Actify Centro provides a powerful platform for discrete manufacturers to deliver a centralized and unified view of product data for effective project management that s both secure and easy to use while overcoming the challenge of multi-site or multi-region access to data.

2 2 Table of Contents Project Management Staying on top of everything 3 Information at a Glance Quick access to crucial information 4 Create and Collaborate Create a more fluid, flexible approach to the physical workplace 5 Data Discovery Find what you need instantly 6 Works with most engineering design formats Vendor neutral solution for managing engineering product data 7 Document Version Control Check in/out, file versioning, file recovery and control 8 Mobility - Information on any device Get work done away from the office, desk, or even your computer 9 Business Insight - The power of your data Release the business value trapped within your business systems 10

3 3 Project Management Stay on top of everything. In recent years management has begun to encounter a bottleneck, the unmanageable information bottleneck. The ability for department and senior management to have access to accurate and up-to-date files or information is essential for making informed business decisions. Traditional business systems are focused on providing support at the production end of a parts development cycle, as a result initial development phases are not effectively documented. Actify Centro tracks the initial concept and development phases where 95% of a projects costs are defined. Commonly files or data created during the first two phases of development are not effectively tracked or managed resulting in lost files prior to production and need to be re-created. Top-down monitoring and up-to-date data access Centro provides a top-down monitoring platform with engineering real time reporting and dashboard widgets to provide accurate project management metrics such as costs vs target and a detailed cost breakdown at a glance. Centro provides holistic visibility and access to enterprise data to continually monitor progress and project creep. When it comes to making smarter, faster decisions that directly impact the bottom line, access to important information is crucial. Actify Centro makes project management simple and efficient while allowing the right people to access the right information instantly. Project managers using Centro can easy review concurrent project files as Centro enables project teams to be truly connected with secure online access to design data, driving product innovation and creating an engaging platform for teams to collaborate.

4 4 Information at a Glance Quick access to crucial information. The Information Discovery Challenge Every week each department manager would spend time gathering disparate information from different data sources; line-of-business systems, applications or dispersed files within networked drives and detail their department s status in an excel spreadsheet. Sound familiar? Actify Centro gathers hidden, disparate, or dispersed product data held within multiple business systems. Centro unlocks this valuable product data and makes it accessible and universally consumable for the enterprise. Single Version of the Truth ( SVOT) Centro connects the enterprise making information viewable and available in one location. Centro will automatically update the information within the repository as projects develop to deliver a concurrent single version of your product information and what s more, the rich user display brings senior executives closer to the physical product and its form rather than just part numbers and project names.

5 5 Create and Collaborate Create a more fluid, flexible approach to the physical workplace. Innovation cannot and should not just be about the product, it must include the process from effectively gathering the disparate content and files to keeping them in sync for efficient file collaboration. Actify Centro helps discrete manufacturers create world-class products by optimizing the management of engineering files from early concept ideas through to fully detailed manufacturing and end user instructions. Every stage of your design process can be improved with continuous communication and collaboration. This can now be easily achieved using Centro. Centro enables cross-department collaboration, data management and quick access to extended product data that can help make critical business decisions faster. We believe that Centro is the easiest and most effective way to harness the collective intelligence of your entire enterprise using familiar browser based tools giving you access from any web-enabled device. Centro can be adapted to suit your internal company processes; this ensures you can retain your organization s unique competitive advantage. Realize the benefits of early feedback and collaboration when developing new products with Centro. Extend access to customers and suppliers to gain feedback earlier in the design process to make effective decisions and ensure you exceed customers expectations while you continue to document your progress right up to product delivery.

6 6 Data Discovery Find what you need instantly. Employees get 50% - 75% of their relevant information directly from other employees and more than 80% of enterprise's digitized information resides in individual hard drives and in personal files. Individuals hold the key to the knowledge economy and most of it is lost when they leave the enterprise. (Source: The Knowledge Worker Investment Paradox Gartner Research) Actify s core capabilities are dealing with complex engineering data, and mapping data from just about any networked file or system. Meaning we can populate Centro with data from many different systems and deliver upon your custom requirements to satisfy your company s specific data discovery needs. TIME With Actify Centro you gain the ability to rapidly retrieve information, find parts for reuse and greater internal communication efficiencies through a unified platform to reduce turnaround time and time to market. Ultimately resulting in time being used more productively and efficiently while mitigating time wasted searching for the right information. COST Avoid costly errors and reduce waste with Actify Centro. With Centro you can avoid manufacturing from the wrong bill of materials (BOM), or eliminate duplicate inventory holding. Improving profit margins through effective part reuse and enriching the product development process with effective communication and collaboration enabled through a unified enterprise platform. QUALITY Actify Centro provides an information platform; every stage of development can benefit from knowledge based decision making. Harness the insight from servicing records for legacy or recent projects to enrich product development and eliminate the recurrence of known field issues. Where parts have been used across multiple product lines you can gain insight into the potential impact and knock-on effect of any changes or modifications. Centro provides greater awareness leading to improved product quality and a better customer experience.

7 7 Works with most engineering design formats Vendor neutral solution for managing engineering product data. Many manufacturers have a daily requirement to support the varying model format needs of customers and suppliers or the enterprise application needs that exist downstream of mechanical design, such as Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM), Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE / CFD / FEA) and Coordinate Measurement Machine (CMM) software. Actify Centro enables multi-cad data exchange. With Centro you can convert complete 3D native mechanical CAD data to a neutral format and resolve the enterprise-wide model interoperability challenge. your team will benefit from the richness of the data that is translated, including visualization (tessellations), product structure, precise B-rep, Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) as well as attributes, metadata and much more. At Actify our core capability is extracting product data and part properties from CAD files and engineering type documents as though it was just another database. We overcome the obstacle of sharing and viewing CAD across the enterprise.

8 8 Document Version Control Check in/out, file versioning, file recovery and control. If you re finding that spreadsheets and s are no longer effective at managing the complexity and speed of change in business today, there is a better way. Actify Centro is a purpose- built solution ideal for discrete manufacturers for managing product data, resources and information. Use history to collaborate with confidence. With multiple team members editing files, the risk of someone accidentally making a mistake or deleting important data is real. Centro version history lets you see and revert changes to ensure nothing is lost. Actify synchronizes enterprise data in an automated and orchestrated fashion to ensure everyone is working to the latest file version. Revisions are archived and check-in check-out functionality ensures concurrent file management to prevent data loss through overwriting. Centro delivers out of the box control by defining user based access rights and permissions so you have peace of mind that the right people have access to the right information. Control is critical to any enterprise data management platform to control what information is shared either internally or with external partners. Actify brings technologies to SMB manufacturing organizations without the complexity and overhead of larger enterprise vendors. Actify Centro delivers the 20% of the functionality that makes 80% of the impact without the cost, overhead and complexity of alternatives. Actify has introduced a simple application that provides the core capabilities of a PDM system, providing check-in / check-out for file version, data governance and control. Plus, Actify s use of graph oriented database technology enables extensive data relationships and tracking.

9 9 Mobility Information on any device Get work done away from the office, desk, or even your computer. Your workers will be able to work remotely and perform the same way they would in the office productively and effectively in a familiar user interface optimized for their laptop, smartphone or tablet. Sharing has never been easier. By saving files to Centro, everyone on your team will have access to the latest version of the file eliminating the hassles of version control along with user access permissions. Flexible working is a high priority. We believe that when you respect individuals for who they are and how they operate, it significantly increases productivity. By giving employees access to Centro, businesses can unlock value and provide a platform for your team to work effectively with access to files and information through a variety of web-enabled devices remotely or on the move.

10 10 Business Insight - The power of your data Release the business value trapped within your business systems. Today s discrete manufacturing problems are not about creating more data or buying additional expensive and complex technology, but rather accessing the existing disparate data and gaining insight. It s not only about machine and sensor data from IOT initiatives, recognizing that these are key tools where data is authored. The same is true for data being authored by employees within enterprise applications and line-of-business systems. Over the years manufacturing companies have spent a fortune on expensive CAD, PDM, PLM and ERP systems without ever gaining the promised results. That's because these applications exist in silos. Just imagine if you could release the business value that is trapped within these applications and other key data sources like spreadsheets and line-of-business systems. Valuable product data is also hidden within CAD files (dimensions, ebom, PMI, GD&T, etc.) located across network drives or dispersed across locations. Today s business intelligence (BI) solutions do not understand product data or handle the types of files or information that are synonymous with engineering and manufacturing organizations. Moreover, traditional BI approaches are geared for analyzing entirely different problems such as sales forecasting, financial performance, and marketing knowledge. Discrete manufacturers data is unique, because your information assets include 3D and 2D data representing product definitions. At Actify we understand product data. Centro cost effectively makes product data accessible by all required enterprise workers and management across locations. It is not about creating more data, but rather gaining greater value, knowledge and efficiencies by merging and analyzing disparate information. Your data no longer needs to be a static source of knowledge, but a source of concurrent insight coming from across the enterprise. By leveraging Actify s core technologies we can deliver the platform for handling disparate, unstructured data and deliver an interface or dashboard to overcome your critical business challenge.