Across the Industrial & Equipment industry, manufacturers are finding innovative ways to capture opportunities within the dynamic and complex global business environment. Facing shrinking profit margins, shorter product lifecycle, unprecedented demand growth and more outsourcing trend to the merging markets, industrial equipment companies are relying more and more on SmarTeam Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions to address the above challenges. These sectors include:
• Fabricated Metal Products
• Heavy Mobile Machinery & Equipment
• Industrial Equiment Products
• Industrial Manufacturing Machinery
• Installed Equipment
SmarTeam customers in these sectors in the UK include PALL Filters, Norgren, Trelleborg, Aggreko, Webster & Bennett, Doosen Babcock, etc
SmarTeam gives manufacturers the power to handle these challenges by offering the greatest breadth of PLM capabilities, in a single yet flexible SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). This means that hi-tech manufacturers can deploy the solution footprint that offers the most impact to their business, while having the ability to grow over time to add additional capabilities without the fear of re-implementation or obsolescence.

SmarTeam delivers an open and flexible system for managing complexity in product development throughout it's lifecycle, and include the following capabilities specifically required for 'best practice PLM implementations within the Electronics sector.
• Managing and releasing a single, integrated, Engineering BOM; e.g. Mechanical, Electronic and Software deliverables.
• Engineering BOM release to Manufacture (ERP), including full context validation, to ensure Items are not released with in-complete data or un-released, dependent drawings or specifications
• Pre-release management of long lead items to procurement or tooling inc. risk assessment.
• Part classification management by description or characteristic for rationalised component inventories
• Integrated MultiCAD file vaulting and revision management.
• Mechanical: Pro/E, CATIA, SolidEdge, SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD
• Electronic: Mentor, Cadence, Protel, Zuken
• Viewing/printing of 200+ formats include comprehensive redline & watermarking
• Support for Automotive derived quality planning, e.g. APQP, PPAP, FMEA for Mechatronics manufacturers, or other companies adopting Automotive best practices.
• Full Engineering Change (EC) management workflow, including advanced configuration to manage complex products across a global business
• Effectively address IP and design re-use to optimize time-to-market, cost, and quality
• Ensure the ability to meet regulatory compliance and quality standards goals
• Project Management, for managing Tasks and activities, linked to MS-Project, facilitating resource planning
• Engineer-to-order Product Configurator for 'Rule based ' automation of BOM and Documentation.