Concurrent Systems Incorporated Limited
Securing your investment in Design

DDM PLM 2011.1: Smart, Sophisticated, Simple PLM

Newbury, Berkshire UK, September 2011. Concurrent Systems Inc Ltd, a leading developer of multi-CAD PLM, design data, project and document management solutions, announce the release of DDM 2011.1.

Building on 20 years of innovation, the release of DDM 2011.1 continues to break the mould in PLM, providing your business with a smart, sophisticated solution that is quick and easy to implement and use.

Data is the key currency for every organisation, whether you are a start - up company with one employee or a global multi-site enterprise coping with vast amounts of data. The ability to find, use and re-use your data most effectively is the core sustaining factor for any business and provides you with a key competitive advantage.

Organisations increasingly share and utilise information from any number of CAD and office applications (Engineering Financial, HR, Sales, Marketing etc) so a single, trusted source for information is crucial.

DDM 2011.1 offers you a single, secure and trusted hub for your information, optimising the use of your data currency throughout the enterprise. The release of DDM 2011.1 provides significant core product functionality enhancements and continues to build on the success of the single source PLM solution, by focusing on four main areas:

  • Optmised usability and performance with minimal installation
  • Improved supply chain data management and communication
  • Global 24/7 access - via web portal (now optimised for Smart Devices)
  • Support for latest 32/64 bit Version of all mainstream CAD solutions

Take a look at the What's New Movies below to find out the power of DDM, or alternatively view the full breakdown of new and improved features.

DDM folder team members
PLM - PDF Document Previews in DDM
Shows how DDM allows creation and management of PDF previews for documents, providing a standard document format for users to view documents from DDM.
 5.25 mins
(enhanced in DDM 2011.1)

 

DDM folder team members
PLM Collaboration - Project Folder Teams in DDM
Users that are added to the folder team have direct visual access to the folder in DDM. This is an excellent way to provide controlled access to customer and suppliers on a specific project basis via the DDM web client.
 3.36 mins
(enhanced in DDM 2011.1)
DDM transmittals
PLM Compliance - Transmittals
Transmittals provide and excellent way to comunicate project data with project team members throughout your internal and external supply chains.
 5.14 mins
(enhanced in DDM 2011.1)
DDM transmittals
PLM - Reserve to/Reference to options
The 'Reserve To' function has been improved and a new 'Reference To' menu option is added. Both dialogues show a full list of the users folders and the 'Reference To' function allows selection of multiple folders.
 2.33 mins
(enhanced in DDM 2011.1)
DDM transmittals
PLM Worklfow - Decision Step & Web Approvals
This DDM PLM video shows how to define a workflow decision step and trigger web approvals in DDM
4.26 mins
(enhanced in DDM 2011.1)
DDM with Creo Parametric Save a copy as function
PLM CAD - Save a copy as
Save a Copy As option available to store a new part back to DDM without automatically replacing the orginal parts in your session assembly.
 2.45 mins
(enhanced in DDM 2011.1)
DDM bill of materials for CAD Users
PLM - BOM Editor Enhancements (CAD based)
Managing CAD based Bills of Materials in DDM including position numbers, bill of quantity view, quantity options, hidden and manually managed parts.
 3.41 mins
(enhanced in DDM 2011.1)
DDM Bill of Materials for non CAD users
PLM - Bill Of Material Management (non CAD)
See how easy it is to manually create Bill of Materials in DDM. This movie also covers many of the new 2011.1 BOM enhancements including Bill of Quantity view, Manually Managed and Hidden Parts and the item number utility
 9.43 mins
(enhanced in DDM 2011.1)