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AI Assistant
Your Expert, On Call 24/7

Why AI Assistant?

Your data is scattered everywhere. BOMs in PDM. Inventory in ERP. Costs in MES. Approval workflows in email threads. Your team spends hours — sometimes days — just to find one number, one document, one answer.

This isn't your problem alone. This is every manufacturer's problem: data-rich, but information-poor.

Our AI Assistant isn't another chatbot. It's an intelligent agent built to understand your manufacturing context — connecting PDM, PLM, CAD, ERP into a single knowledge source, answering in plain language, acting instantly.

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Functionalities

The AI Assistant delivers the following capabilities:

  • Natural language search: Ask "Find the latest bracket for Project Alpha" — AI searches across PDM vaults, no more DataCard hunting

  • Visual insights: BOM graphs, table views, Excel exports — all at your fingertips, ready for analysis

  • Cross-system intelligence: "How much stock?" — pulls PDM engineering data + ERP inventory, materials, costs in real time

  • Smart analysis: Compare BOM revisions, find similar parts, trace quality issues across versions

  • Workflow automation: Create change requests, route approvals, connect to ERP — via voice or chat command

Advantages

The AI Assistant delivers transformative benefits:

  • Semantic search across everything: Searches drawings, PDFs, Word documents — context-aware, respects permissions, PDM remains the single source of truth

  • AI assists, never overrides: Every decision stays yours. AI suggests, you approve

  • 80% reduction in search time: Your team stops hunting files, starts solving real problems

  • Seamless integration: Works on your existing platform — no system replacement, no workflow disruption

  • Future-ready architecture: Open for custom AI training, integration with IoT, AR down the road

SolidWorks Connector

The SolidWorks Connector is your conduit to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) from your SolidWorks desktop.  The SolidWorks Connector is fine-tuned to manage CAD Documents for each SolidWorks drawing, assembly or part represented in the CAD hierarchy.  In addition, the SolidWorks Connector enables you to manage Parts for each of your SolidWorks assemblies and part configurations as they relate to your CAD Documents, and also provides the ability to manage your Bill of Materials (BOM) as the complete as-designed CAD hierarchy

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Functionalities

The SolidWorks connector provide the following functionalities:

  • Manage CAD files by conserving all their rich engineering data on a centralized server (product structure, material, dimensions, tolerances...).

  • Allow connection by users and roles.

  • Modification history for audit trail/track & trace. 

  • Provide automatic workflow to manage collaborative engineering tasks.

  • Automatically transform and feed data to downstream platforms for re-use.

Advantages

The SolidWorks connector will provide the following advantages:

  • Add new PDM/PLM advantages to the traditional 3D CAD of SolidWorks.

  • Automatically connect CAD data to downstream applications such as ERP, MES. Data is input just once and re-use after that.

  • Avoid most of human errors due to manual data input and email communication. 

  • Modern architecture allowing to extend to future improvements and technologies such as data lake, AI... 

Custom Serial Number in SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional

In essence, a part number is simply a unique identifier for an item approved for a specific application. It’s formatting should be consistent, and remain unambiguous throughout that items lifecycle. This is essential for correct product assembly, testing and maintenance. A good part number therefore simply allows us to clearly distinguishing one part from other.

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Although we would advocate the use of a Simple or Semi-Significant number within PDM; with metadata being used to describe the component in a much more ‘user friendly’ and sustainable way. We appreciate that Customers will in some cases not be able to shake off a legacy numbering scheme or will require a small degree of intelligence that is not possible ‘Out of the box’ in SOLIDWORKS PDM. For this reason we have developed the PdmNumber add-in for SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional.

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Functionalities

The SolidWorks PDM connector provide the following functionalities:

  • Link engineering data in CAD files (product structure, material, dimensions, tolerances...) to downstream applications.

  • Provide automatic numbering (PDM number) more fit to the needs of engineering users.

  • Automatically transform and feed data to downstream platforms for re-use.

Advantages

The SolidWorks PDM connector will provide the following advantages:

  • Add new PLM advantages to the traditional  PDM of SolidWorks.

  • Automatically connect CAD data to downstream applications such as ERP, MES. Data is input just once and re-use after that.

  • Avoid most of human errors due to manual data input and email communication. 

  • Modern architecture allowing to extend to future improvements and technologies such as data lake, AI... 

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