The goal of the collaborative business process is to put information into the hands of users who need it and when they need it. The result is real-time visibility into programs and projects, leading to more informed decisions such as when to eliminate marginal projects, how to keep high ROI projects on track, predict product/project results and align appropriate resources to the most important projects. By adopting an enterprise wide collaborative business process solution, companies are able to improve quality and innovation.
ENOVIA MatrixOne collaborative product development business process solutions enable companies to bring together people, processes, content and systems to achieve a compelling advantage. From the conception of the new product, right through to delivery, ENOVIA MatrixOne Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions address the demands of role-based knowledge workers throughout the organization by:
- Transforming the value chain into a virtual enterprise
- Implementing standards-based solutions built to support global, enterprise-wide deployments
- Managing globally dispersed programs, project teams and connected activities
- Optimizing industry best practices and process excellence
The MatrixOne environment is organized by “domain”, which represent a logical grouping of products based on the problems that they are intended to address. Within each domain, products are organized into base products and optional products which can be used to further expand functionality, depending upon specific business or industry need. All products across the MatrixOne domains and across the ENOVIA product portfolio are built with the same compatible technology and can be deployed together as part of a single MatrixOne system.
There are seven MatrixOne product domains:
Platform Products establish the necessary environment for running all other MatrixOne products; includes tools for administering the system and integrations that can be applied to all other available product domains. MatrixOne Platform (PLF) has a very robust and broad integration API set which allows integration to multiple third party enterprise and desktop tools—from MCAD to ECAD, to document management, ERP, etc. This platform is the information or the PLM backbone that allows an organization to leverage investments in third party authoring tools and enterprise systems and pull that information together.
X-BOM Management Products provide cross-functional bill-of-material management and change control capabilities. MatrixOne Engineering Central enables companies to help eliminate the significant process and data communication barriers that exist between mechanical, electronics and software engineering disciplines within the enterprise and the product supply chain. MatrixOne Specification Central delivers a single platform for secure specification management. It is designed to enable enterprises to better manage and standardize on the development, review, approval, and distribution of product specifications.
Compliancy Management Products provide capabilities to manage product compliance to government regulations currently focused on materials compliancy. Product development teams can check material content information from any design view, and are able to cross-reference this data against multiple regulations. Designers can quickly determine if components meet all the compliance standards and substance thresholds in order to make any necessary changes early in the design process.
Portfolio Management Products provide capabilities to manage the product portfolio and execute new product introduction (NPI) development programs to deliver the products to market. MatrixOne Product Central enables improved communication and collaboration between a company’s product planning and development organizations by managing and tracking evolving customer and market needs throughout the entire product development lifecycle. MatrixOne Program Central can help companies deliver products from concept to market faster. Organizations can free critical resources to concentrate on the most profitable products while standardizing best in class business processes across the extended enterprise. Through project pipeline dashboards, this solution provides management with real-time visibility into a project’s status in terms of schedule, resources, costs and benefits. Ultimately, this should allow for better decision making when analyzing which projects offer the highest potential return on investment.
Supplier Relationship Management Products extend the product development process to the supply chain. MatrixOne Sourcing Central is a sourcing and quotation management application that provides out-of-the-box functionality to enable global organizations to help improve collaboration with their suppliers and partners, and help streamline the buyer-supplier interaction related to the sourcing of direct materials and highly engineered goods. MatrixOne Supplier Central is designed to help quality managers improve quality from the very beginning of the product lifecycle. Quality managers can create part quality plans from Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) templates, allowing quality planning methodologies to be standardized, customized and measured with a combination of control and flexibility. Dashboards and status tools with drill-down capabilities inform managers of areas in need of attention, ideally before product delays occur.
Collaborative Product Engineering Products provide cross-functional CAD design collaboration and tool integration. MatrixOne Designer Central enables designers to manage and collaborate globally using one application that supports a wide variety of design tools. MatrixOne Designer Central eliminates the need for multiple CAD work group managers and the associated cost with supporting each related data manager.
The following MatrixOne mechanical CAD integrations leverage MatrixOne Designer Central capabilities to add data management for a given MCAD system:
- MatrixOne AutoCAD Integration
- MatrixOne CATIA V4 Integration
- MatrixOne CATIA V5 Integration
- MatrixOne Inventor Integration
- MatrixOne MicroStation Integration
- MatrixOne Pro/E Integration
- MatrixOne Pro/I Integration
- MatrixOne Solid Edge Integration
- MatrixOne SolidWorks Integration
- MatrixOne Unigraphics Integration
Vertical Products extend offerings from the process domains with industry specific terminology, data types, and functionality. The
MatrixOne Automotive Accelerator for Program Management (APQP) provides auto companies with the processes and tools to manage and improve the execution of complex automotive vehicle programs through the supply chain tiers with industry best practices and standards. The
MatrixOne Aerospace & Defense Accelerator for Program Management is used to manage development programs while ensuring compliance with all contractual guidelines and regulations. The
MatrixOne Semiconductor Accelerator provides capabilities to address a number of key business challenges specific to the Semiconductor industry. The standard capabilities are Web-based issue management and collaboration in secure, structured, virtual workplaces for ad-hoc collaboration amongst cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams. The
MatrixOne Medical Device Accelerator for Regulatory Compliance manages a medical device company’s QSR and ISO-regulated design processes, projects, documents and data. This application provides full audit trails and powerful authentication controls for FDA Part 11 compliance. The
MatrixOne Apparel Accelerator for Design & Development provides a single environment to manage an Apparel company’s product, project, color, material, line plan, and vendor data. It effectively allocates and manages resources across all functional teams by tracking seasonal line planning calendars, approvals and responsibilities.
