External Collaboration
Optimized collaboration with customers, suppliers, and external agencies

Market forces have compressed the timelines of all manufacturers, demanding improved cycle times, customer visibility, and supplier responsiveness. Anark automates secure universal access to powerful engineering product data so your teams can focus on speed and innovation. Go faster with Anark!
WHAT'S WRONG
Product innovation starts with engineering, but it doesn’t end there. You need to harness the power of engineering product data and empower everyone inside and outside the organization to go faster.
Your existing systems promised a closed-loop collaborative digital thread, but continually fall short. Too slow, disconnected, untraceable. But not Anark.
Designing, building, and delivering quality products requires the collected effort of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people. That’s why we’ve created a product innovation platform that combines content, work, and knowledge management with unified communication and collaboration. By connecting to your existing tools, Anark adds secure, traceable collaboration and connects everyone to the digital thread.
As a result, Anark customers reduce unplanned, and often hidden, manufacturing costs: delays, scrap, rework, quality issues, and poor supplier performance.
It's time to go faster!
of engineering time freed up from finding, packaging, sharing, and explaining data with email and disconnected documents.
reduction of supplier interaction time by automating TDP publishing during early supplier collaboration.
reduction of engineering errors by collaborating in the context of shared technical data.
savings on annual part fabrication costs by sharing 3D TDP vs. 2D models.
Eliminate delays and disconnects with work management that understands your engineering product data.
Assign, track, disposition and log work alongside 3D CAD, 2D drawings, TDPs, PLM BOMs, work instructions, and other content.
Transform 3D CAD into universally accessible and actionable content that empowers everyone to do their best work. Configurable publishing recipes and content templates make it easy to produce high quality technical data packages that fit your needs.
✔️Simple 3D CAD publishing for rapid collaboration ✔️Advanced MBD translation ✔️Compliant Technical Data Packages ✔️3D PDF publishing. Harnesses the full power of your CAD with Anark.
The Anark Advantage
We’ve focused on solving complex challenges so you can focus on innovation
Optimized collaboration with customers, suppliers, and external agencies
Bridge collaboration gaps to extend the digital thread to everyone who needs it
Harness the full power of model-based definition across the enterprise
MIL-STD-31000B, DoD 5000.97, Audit Trails, and more
Still need a print? No problem, but don’t forget to close the feedback loop.
Publish high quality engineering product data from CAD, PLM and other manufacturing systems
Modern microservices and API-first architecture extends value to existing systems and tailors experiences for a diverse set of applications
Flexible IP security with role-based access controls (RBAC), identity management integration, dynamic watermarking, and full traceability
Publishing and workflow synchronization with authoritative sources
"I really love my job, getting people to use model-based solutions from Anark and seeing their eyes light up when they get it. It's astounding. It's just a great feeling.
Model-based, to me, is an exciting journey that transforms our manual, document based business processes into a digital thread. The result is faster delivery, better quality, and a more collaborative environment that breaks down silos."
"The move to 3D is already delivering ROI—speeding our ability to meet FAA requirements while driving additional savings in production and quality inspection use cases.
We’re about 75% automated today and we are working toward 95%. This will save our engineers anywhere from 15 minutes to 5 hours of work per part. So, automation is another big win for us."
Configuration Management Engineer
Real-time collaboration (in Anark) rather than email allows us to track communication and resolve (supplier) issues a lot faster than before. And our sourcing and procurement team can visually verify the parts they are ordering without help from Engineering.
“We’re setting a higher bar with 3D TDPs from Anark. One that moves us forward with a scalable, future-ready approach, rather than falling back to 2D drawings and later struggling to rebuild momentum around 3D.
We’re super appreciative of the work Anark has done with us, and their engagement with us at every level has been wonderful. The help Anark provided our team allowed us to continue to move at the pace of a startup.”
Rick Florence
Configuration Manager – Aircraft Certification
"Anark is empowering over 900 students each semester to engage with complex engineering data in a clear, accessible, and modern way. They’re using PDM systems, NX, Teamcenter, and Anark Collaborate from day one. I introduce them to these tools not by talking about them, but by using them—just like in industry."
Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering
“We needed a technical data collaboration hub because we struggled to seamlessly exchange diverse technical data types, which resulted in collaborative processes that were still largely untraced. Anark Collaborate is a central component of our digital engineering environment that delivers the model-based collaboration and full traceability we need. IP security is of the utmost importance to us.”
"You know that 4 parts I did yesterday? Well I did 40 parts in an hour this morning! Because I can look at the monitor and have everything right there instead of running back to my workbench to look at the drawing and try to remember the numbers."
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