Design Collaboration Solutions
Industry Problem
In today's economic climate manufacturers need to increase efficiency by reducing development costs and increasing collaboration and communication during product development. Design review, design collaboration and product data sharing with internal or external organizations can be a complex and costly problem involving issues of CAD data compatibility, intellectual property protection, model simplification, design revision, and CAD model distribution. Wouldn't it be great to easily and cost-effectively transform complex 3D CAD geometry into PDF documents that can be securely distributed for markup, review, and comment?
Anark Solution
Anark solves these issues by combining experience, easy and automated 3D CAD transformation, and Adobe's Acrobat and LiveCycle platforms to generate lightweight, secure, digital rights-managed 3D PDF documents that can be distributed to--and recalled from--internal and external stakeholders across the extended enterprise. Anark's design collaboration solutions reduce costs for OEM's and suppliers by drastically cutting the time and labor required to prepare, distribute, and track engineering change and action requests.
Convert 3D CAD to PDF
- Create CAD transformation recipes to simplify complex 3D CAD data and remove sensitive information. Recipes capture the transformation "actions" and ensure that modifications to the CAD geometry can be repeated--without human error--even as designs change.
- Protect your intellectual property: Protect intellectual property by removing sensitive design elements and PMI. Recording delete actions to assemblies, parts, features, and PMI ensures these components are removed reliably and consistently, each time the recipe is processed.
Create PDF templates to facilitate collaboration
- Create PDF forms customized for each supplier or partner, and distribute only the information they require. Suppliers can mark-up design changes directly in the PDF document.
- Control access to content using security policies that allow you to revoke access even after the document is distributed.
- Collect and track requests: Traceable processes and rights management formalizes relationships between OEM's and suppliers.
Regenerate PDF's when designs change
- Design changes submitted to the PDM server triggers automatic reprocessing of CAD geometry and regeneration of 3D PDF documents reflecting design revisions.
- Anark's unique automation technology ensures consistency and concurrency of derivative documents with source CAD data.
- Adobe LiveCycle ensures design changes replace previously distributed documents.
Securely share CAD data across the Extended Enterprise
When coupled with the Adobe LiveCycle platform, organizations can deploy a standards-based, secure, automated, CAD model preparation and distribution platform that compliments existing investments in PDM and PLM systems.
Production proven: Anark knowledge, technology, and delivery
Knowledge
Thorough understanding of customer problems and business objectives for cost effective 3D application deployment throughout the Enterprise.
Technology
Advanced 3D authoring, delivery, and data management tools and technology combined with "best of breed" industry standard products and solutions. Anark's design collaboration solutions provide a cost effective bridge between 3D CAD data and Adobe Acrobat and Adobe LiveCycle solutions to provide extended 3D PDF features and capabilities including document distribution, tracking, and digital rights management.
Delivery
Unrivaled track record for delivering successful 3D visualization & PLM solutions for the industry's most demanding and innovative customers. As an official Adobe Solution Partner, Anark's professional consulting team has in-depth knowledge and experience with the design, development, and deployment of cost effective Adobe Acrobat and Adobe LiveCycle based applications and solutions.