2020 was a crazy and unprecedented year. Our home lives and work lives have gone through and will continue to go through some significant changes. In the design and manufacturing industry, we have had to change how we communicate and collaborate, we’ve needed to retool.
1. Working Remotely is the New Normal
One of the biggest challenges is how you access your most valuable asset. Your DATA. How do you give access, in a controlled and secure way to this new remote workforce?
The first problem is simply the infrastructure needed to provide you secure access while maintaining fast performance, especially for the large CAD data many of you work with every day. Many companies have data all over the place, local drive, different network shares.
The second problem is how do you control who is editing what files and working collaboratively. Not as simple as yelling over the cubical wall to close out of a data set. For those companies that have not invested in a Data Management system to this point are really beginning to understand the value of centralized and secure data. Moreover, your also get Solidworks Virtual Machine implemented.
2. The need for a SOLIDWORKS Data Management Solution
If you aren’t working with a data management solution like SOLIDWORKS PDM or SOLIDWORKS Manage, this is definitely the time to start. Not only do these solutions centralize and secure your data, but they allow you to pull more value from your data and increase the productivity of your team. Connecting data through a digital thread makes finding information much easier. Automating administrative tasks like creating consumable files like PDFs and leveraging workflows to notify people and understand your projects’ status is just scratching the surface.
3. Move SOLIDWORKS Desktop or PDM to the Cloud
Javelin technologies has put a lot of time and effort into researching Cloud solutions. We have knowledgeable and certified staff to help you understand the options and services provided by AWS and Microsoft Azure. We will help you to sign up with these providers, then we can deliver the services to implement or move your SOLIDWORKS PDM or Manage Vaults to the Cloud.
By no means is this new technology; it’s just taken some time for this industry to both understand and trust it. Although not natively written for Cloud, Javelin has done extensive testing and has successfully moved our customer’s SOLIDWORKS PDM and Manage Vaults to the Cloud. We are currently working with both Azure and AWS Cloud services and are looking to add more to this list. Clients that made this move already are finding that the ease to connect, and the performance have been great. Many also find that previous server replication is no longer needed. The potential for reducing costs for internal infrastructure and upkeep is a huge bonus as well.
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