CIM Database Cloud features

• Enterprise-wide organization and sharing of documents and knowledge
• Fast document retrieval with Enterprise Search
• Protection of know-how through roles & privileges system
• Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements thanks to automatic documentation
• Provision of documents, e.g., for review and approval processes
• Seamless integration with MS Office, including Outlook

• Efficient management, distribution, and provisioning of product data such as CAx documents, parts, and bills of materials
• 2D and 3D visualization of individual parts and entire products
• Fast parts search, reduced parts redundancy, and lower costs thanks to powerful classification mechanisms (see “Classification” function)
• Accelerated and transparent planning and implementation of technical changes
• Ensuring quality by capturing issues and implementing appropriate resolution strategies

• Share and collaborate on project documents and product data (Basic)
• Efficient task management with open issues and agile task boards (Advanced)
• Holistic planning, controlling, and execution of projects with work breakdown structures, Gannt charts, checklists, and quality gates (Advanced)

• Secure decisions and high process quality through the availability of 3D models everywhere
• Cost savings on CAD licenses and elimination of the need for workaround solutions through separate CAD viewers
• Diverse interaction possibilities for flexible usage
• Seamless integration into PLM specialist applications and direct interlinking with users' typical tasks
• End-to-end process integration from early design phase to product validation

• Efficient master data organization through universal classification system
• Transparent parts inventory and reduced maintenance effort
• Increased reuse and cost reduction through parts classification
• Rapid parts search through characteristics and the visual class browser
• Support for geometric similarity search through integration with 3D Collaboration

• Easily enter and edit requirements using the integrated editor 
• Manage requirements with transparency: Automate and trace every change with the integrated audit trail
• Graphical visualization of requirements relationships in the context of the virtual product model and intuitive drag & drop editing
• Monitor processing status and compliance with reports
• Exchange requirements with external stakeholders and systems in a secure and efficient manner using baselining as well as import and export functionality

• Company-wide availability of detailed material information for a wide range of applications
• Seamless collaboration through reliable material data
• Clear representation and easy modeling of material data in various contexts (development, procurement, quality assurance, etc.)
• Efficient material selection and quick identification of alternatives with graphical comparison of material properties

• Efficient management of product variants through rule- and characteristics-based configuration for targeted product variability
• Combination of individual product customization for customer-oriented solutions with efficient value creation
• Management of variability from portfolio management to variant implementation
• Overview and improved decision confidence even in complex variant spaces
• Automatic provisioning of suitable data for subsequent systems such as ERP, CRM, digital shops, or IoT

• Quick and direct calculation of product costs in early development phases
• Easily adaptable costing schemes with fixed and variable costs, as well as unit and overhead costs for precise calculations
• Use bills of materials and product structures as calculation components
• Integrate and allocate project costs
• Setting of sales targets for optimal pricing and increased product profitability

• Cost planning, calculation, and recording directly within the project
• Break down according to your needs: Derive or customize cost items from project structure
• Determine actual labor costs from time tracking
• Synchronize work breakdown structure elements and cost items
• Easy and transparent comparison and analysis of project costs
• Real-time controlling of ongoing target, planned, and actual costs
• Recording and analysis of costs, e.g., time-based by cost type, cost center, or site

• Strategic resource planning to optimize the use of existing and future planned capacities across the entire project organization
• Define a hierarchical resource pool regardless of organizational structure for optimal alignment with demand planning requirements
• Early planning of rough resource requirements for new projects at the resource pool level
• Preplan requirements in project templates to speed up requirements planning for new projects
• Assign human resources to requirements and drill down to project tasks for detailed planning

• Efficient collaboration between design and work preparation
• Fast and reliable transfer of design changes from the engineering BOM to the manufacturing BOM – for instance, simple and safe resolution of quantity discrepancies
• Reliable error prevention through synchronization in the central work preparation when supplying globally distributed locations with location- or order-specific manufacturing BOMs
• Synchronization with other BOMs for service, spare parts, and maintenance
• Direct and reliable assessment of deviations in the 3D model

• Efficient transition from development to manufacturing thanks to work planning in the PLM system at an early stage
• Address order-independent aspects of work planning in the PLM system, thereby establishing the foundation for integrated product and process planning
• Improved interaction between PLM, MES, and ERP systems
• Reliable transfer of changes to the engineering BOM to production
• Direct transfer of work plans for processing production order

• DevOps services developed for companies with high customization requirements for a PLM system
• Ensures customization of specific business processes
• Reliability: Continuity of business processes, both during and after migration
• Benefit: Combination of cloud technology and the adaptability of an on-premises system

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