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Everything You Need to Accelerate Innovation

Connect everyone to the engineering product data and expertise they need to communicate and collaborate without compromise.

The Anark Product Innovation Platform

The Anark platform integrates with your existing tools and systems to bring all your engineering product data and knowledge together, but also to streamline how you communicate, give you more and better ways to collaborate, simplify how work gets managed and tracked, make sharing specialized knowledge easier, and lots more. Our capabilities are key to ramping up productivity, strengthening your digital thread, and modernizing your manufacturing operations.

Simply put, Anark's Product Innovation Platform solves an array of digital thread challenges so you can focus on speed and innovation.

Content Management

Get complete control over your engineering and manufacturing data, no matter where it’s coming from. Seamless integrations and user uploads let you consolidate content, while intelligent access controls make it easy to manage who can see what, and automated tools streamline publishing without the hassle of third-party apps or plugins.

Simplify publishing

  • Automated recipes and layout templates eliminate repetitive content collection, prep and layout work.
  • Integrate with existing processes using event-based publishing triggers.
  • Publish and deliver MIL-STD-31000B compliant 3Di PDFs to meet DoD contract data requirements.
Anark Content Management Data Consolidation

Consolidate all your data

  • Automated PLM integrations ensure always up-to-date high quality engineering product data.
  • Drag-and-drop file sharing eliminates disconnected apps and powers rapid collaboration.
  • Full visualization support for CAD, PLM and other data types.
  • Normalize multi-sourced engineering data to empower everyone with a standard data experience.
Consolidated PLM Data with Anark

Flexible IP security

  • Control content with file-less and time-limited access.
  • Apply dynamic watermarks for both digital and printed content.
  • Event-level logging gives you visibility into each user’s actions.
Flexible IP Security

Granular role-based access controls

  • Generate unlimited custom roles to meet all your collaboration needs.
  • Use Content Classifiers to create powerful access rules and apply them to individual roles.
  • Integrate user management with your existing identity provider with single sign on (SSO) and SCIM provisioning support.
Role-based Access Controls for Supplier Collaboration

Configurable APIs and integrations

  • Tailor the user interface with easy-to-use content templates for a wide array of user types and applications.
  • Control what content can be printed and who can print it.
  • Gain additional configurability through REST APIs.
Content and UI Templates

Unified Communication and Collaboration

Save time and boost productivity with the ability to communicate, collaborate and interact within and alongside your content. Our capabilities include everything from markups and annotations to drag-and-drop file sharing to real-time conversations with both internal and external users. With our easily-traceable communication history, you can mitigate and resolve any miscommunication between teams.

Natural communication

  • Chat in real-time, send direct messages, configure notifications
  • Post screenshots, pictures, videos, and content markups
  • Trace decisions to their source to save time and resolve miscommunication quickly and effectively.
Natural communication chat tools in Anark

Team collaboration spaces

  • Simplify access to the content and expertise everyone needs
  • Organize team discussions and file storage
  • Consolidate an array of projects and workspaces with activity-based collaboration spaces
Team collaboration spaces

Closed-loop feedback

  • Ask questions, get answers and close the feedback loop
  • Options to print, markup, and upload scans or pictures to capture frontline worker feedback
  • Meet people where they work with content and expertise they need.
Closed-loop 2D Print Markups

Compliance and Security

  • Archive collaboration activities and content for a fully traceable audit trail
  • Time-limit access to conversations, files and content
  • Manage content and feature access with role-based access control (RBAC) groups
  • Integrate with identity management and SSO to leverage existing security policies
Digital thread traceable audit trail

Work Management

Manage manufacturing and design workflows with a flexible capabilities that map to your processes. No more disconnected task tracking tools. Instead, stay on task by planning, dispositioning, tracking, and logging every work item, approval, request, waiver, and more side by side with your engineering product data.

Connect work, content and conversations

  • Enhance assigned work items with engineering product data, review and markup tools, and real-time chat.
  • Disposition actionable feedback and assign tasks linked to related content markups and conversations.
  • View 3D data, TDPs, BOMs, work instructions, and other engineering product data alongside your work items.
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Create and assign custom work items

  • Use standard work item types or add your own to track and manage tasks, approvals, deviation requests, issues, enhancements, and more.
  • Assign work items that map to your processes and collect the data you need for enhanced reporting.
  • Tailor work items with custom properties to fit your process.
Work Item Creation in a Discussion

Manage proactive and reactive work

  • Plan and assign work items as a part of your scheduled projects, activities and reviews.
  • Disposition unplanned work items such as issues, feedback, and more for end-to-end traceability.
Proactive and Reactive Work Management

Knowledge Management

Digitize institutional knowledge. Capture expertise in the context of engineering product data. Enhance work instructions with model-based definition and animated sequences. Retain and transfer knowledge to upskill your teams. Empower everyone with the data and knowledge they need to go faster.

Screen captures with intelligence

  • Capture screenshots, highlight important details, add your notes, and save them to share with others.
  • Replace disconnected PowerPoint screenshot collections with connected knowledge capture and reuse.
Screen captures with intelligence

Purpose-driven callouts, views and styles

  • Enrich engineering data with callouts and annotations for specific downstream needs.
  • Create purpose-driven model views required for specialized tasks and instructions.
  • Apply standard visual styles to normalize data from diverse modeling practices to simplify downstream visualization.
Model views with MBD and PMI

Work instructions made easy

  • Intuitive tools let you quickly curate detailed instructions and even include interactive content for each step.
  • Ensure urgent details are seen with the ability to surface them within a dedicated area within a work instruction.
  • Stay informed by getting notifications and/or feedback when each step is completed.
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Integrated collaboration and work management

  • Peer-review content prior to release to ensure quality and consistency
  • Discuss content and work instructions without leaving the platform.
  • Disposition and assign tasks to manage and track follow-up work.
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Explore the Anark Product Innovation Platform

Automatically connect to all your information sources, streamline collaboration and data packaging, prepare and publish technical content with ease, and much more with the Anark platform. Use just one solution for more focused capabilities, or take advantage of all three for a comprehensive approach to manufacturing collaboration.

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Anark Workstation

Take control of sharing high-quality product data with your own desktop command center.

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Anark Publish

The automation engine for finding, packaging, and publishing data from any source.

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Anark Collaborate

The product innovation hub for sharing, collaborating, and tracking work across the digital thread.

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