Design Data Manager, The affordable, easy to use, document CAD business management solution.

1. PLM
Made Easy and Affordable
By Simon Gee
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2. CSI, owners and developers of DDM
• Privately owned Newbury based company.
• CAD and Data Management Specialists
• Over 20 years experience in the CAD/PDM Market
• Mixture of Mechanical and Software Engineers
• We offer a range of services including Implementation, Training, Support and Consulting
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3. DDM Office
Document and Business Process Management
Features
• Document lifecycle management
• Change management
• Configurable auto-numbering
• Bill of material management
• Powerful search and retrieval facility
• Business process management (Workflow)
• Full audit history
• Scalable from small office to global multi site environments
• Secure configurable access control
Benefits
• Easy to implement, affordable and user friendly
• Increase productivity and efficiency
• Achieve compliance with audit history
• Avoid duplication of effort and information
• Guarantee you are working on the latest information
• Immediate secure global access
• Full control over who can see what and when
• Streamline your business with workflow
Services
• Full installation and training services
• How-to movies available on web site
• Online and telephone technical support
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4. DDM Office
For Elements/Direct Drafting
Features
• Document lifecycle management
• Change management
• Configurable auto-numbering
• Bill of material management
• Powerful search and retrieval facility
• Business process management (Workflow)
• Full audit history
• Scalable from small office to global multi site environments
• Secure configurable access control
Benefits
• Easy to implement, affordable and user friendly
• Increase productivity and efficiency
• Achieve compliance with audit history
• Avoid duplication of effort and information
• Guarantee you are working on the latest information
• Immediate secure global access
• Full control over who can see what and when
• Streamline your business with workflow
Services
• Full installation and training services
• How-to movies available on web site
• Online and telephone technical support
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5. DDM Office
For AutoCAD
Features
• Document lifecycle management
• Change management
• Configurable auto-numbering
• Bill of material management
• Powerful search and retrieval facility
• Business process management (Workflow)
• Full audit history
• Scalable from small office to global multi site environments
• Secure configurable access control
Benefits
• Easy to implement, affordable and user friendly
• Increase productivity and efficiency
• Achieve compliance with audit history
• Avoid duplication of effort and information
• Guarantee you are working on the latest information
• Immediate secure global access
• Full control over who can see what and when
• Streamline your business with workflow
Services
• Full installation and training services
• How-to movies available on web site
• Online and telephone technical support
www.csi-europe.com

6. DDM Professional
For SolidWorks
Full DDM Office Features
• Document lifecycle management
• Change management
• Configurable auto-numbering
• Bill of material management
• Powerful search and retrieval facility
• Business process management (Workflow)
• Full audit history
• Scalable from small office to global multi site environments
• Secure configurable access control
SolidWorks Features
• Manage parts, assemblies and drawings
• Drawing title block population
• Engineering change note management
• Part and assembly configurations
• Automatic CAD to PLM BOM generation
• Automatic drawing PDF creation
• Engineering project data management
Services
• Full installation and training services
• How-to movies available on web site
• Online and telephone technical support
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7. DDM Professional
For Inventor
Full DDM Office Features
• Document lifecycle management
• Change management
• Configurable auto-numbering
• Bill of material management
• Powerful search and retrieval facility
• Business process management (Workflow)
• Full audit history
• Scalable from small office to global multi site environments
• Secure configurable access control
Inventor Features
• Manage parts, assemblies and drawings
• Drawing title block population
• Engineering change note management
• Automatic CAD to PLM BOM generation
• Automatic drawing PDF creation
• Engineering project data management
Services
• Full installation and training services
• How-to movies available on web site
• Online and telephone technical support
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8. DDM Professional
For Solid Edge
Full DDM Office Features
• Document lifecycle management
• Change management
• Configurable auto-numbering
• Bill of material management
• Powerful search and retrieval facility
• Business process management (Workflow)
• Full audit history
• Scalable from small office to global multi site environments
• Secure configurable access control
Solid Edge Features
• Manage parts, assemblies and drawings
• Drawing title block population
• Engineering change note management
• Alternate assemblies
• Part occurrence properties in assemblies
• Automatic CAD to PLM BOM generation
• Automatic drawing PDF creation
• Engineering project data management
Services
• Full installation and training services
• How-to movies available on web site
• Online and telephone technical support
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9. DDM Professional
For IronCAD
Full DDM Office Features
• Document lifecycle management
• Change management
• Configurable auto-numbering
• Bill of material management
• Powerful search and retrieval facility
• Business process management (Workflow)
• Full audit history
• Scalable from small office to global multi site environments
• Secure configurable access control
IronCAD Features
• Manage scene and draft documents
• Drawing title block population
• Engineering change note management
• Automatic CAD to PLM BOM generation
• Automatic drawing PDF creation
• Engineering project data management
Services
• Full installation and training services
• How-to movies available on web site
• Online and telephone technical support
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10. DDM Professional
For Creo Parametric
Full DDM Office Features
• Document lifecycle management
• Change management
• Configurable auto-numbering
• Bill of material management
• Powerful search and retrieval facility
• Business process management (Workflow)
• Full audit history
• Scalable from small office to global multi site environments
• Secure configurable access control
Creo Parametric Features
• Manage parts, assemblies and drawings
• Drawing title block population
• Engineering change note management
• Family table management
• Automatic CAD to PLM BOM generation
• Automatic drawing PDF creation
• Engineering project data management
Services
• Full installation and training services
• How-to movies available on web site
• Online and telephone technical support
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11. DDM Web
24/7 Browser based remote access to your data
Full DDM Web Features
• Easy to use browser interface
• Simple and advanced search capabilities
• Product and bill of material structure browsing
• Subscriptions and notifications
• Supports AutoVue web edition
• Supports DDM business unit access controls
• Apply your own corporate colours and logo
Benefits
• Single unlimited multi-user license
• No roll out costs
• Little to no user training requirement
• 24/7 access to database
• Real time sharing of data on a global scale
• Ensure data integrity and secure access
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12. DDM Replicator
Fast multi-site database access
Full DDM Replicator Features
• LAN performance in a WAN environment
• Single license to support multiple servers
• Configurable replication frequency
• Full database (metadata) replication
• Full admin replication including user accounts
• Priority handling of conflicts with notification
Benefits
• No suffering from slow internet connections
• Teams continue working if the network is down
• Single cost for any number of servers
• Increased ROI as your business grows
• Administrative cover from all sites
• Reduced duplication of products and documents
• Promotes product rationalisation and reuse
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13. DDM RIFS
Optimise sharing with Remote Intelligent File Servers
Full DDM RIFS Features
• Licensed per file server (minimum 2)
• Supports any number of remote file servers
• No user interaction required
• Permissions based multi site file sharing
• On demand global access to the latest files
• Scheduled file server synchronisation option
Benefits
• Affordable no maintenance solution
• Scalable in line with your requirements
• Optimised file server performance
• Minimised „on demand‟ network traffic
• Direct access to the latest information
• Assured data integrity
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14. DDM Customer: Hornby
Hornby did not have an electronic design data control system in place
prior to investing in DDM. The need to take active control of all
development data through a single database was evident when
considering the growth of the core brands of Hornby and Scalextric
worldwide and the more recent acquisition of the Spanish model railway
company Electrotren and Lima of Italy with its international
brands, Lima, Jouef, Riverosi and Arnold.
The Problem
Hornby wanted a mid range package, economical in cost, a simple user interface and with minimum systems
administration.
The Solution
DDM offered a system that satisfied the majority of our needs along with the flexibility of extending the system to suit
specific CAD applications.
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15. DDM Customer: LAG Trailers N.V
LAG Trailers had invested in a PTC‟s PDM Link system two years ago, but they never got it up an running the
way they wanted. The system was „too complete for us‟ with little or no flexibility‟.
“PDM Link acted like a „cumbersome monster‟. It takes an academic degree to manage, let alone use it. There
are that many functionalities that when something goes wrong, it can take some time to find and/or solve it.”
The Problem
LAG wanted a economical replacement that had an open structure, based on SQL server where you can easily find
your way
The Solution
“With the use of DDM we are now able to search and retrieve in a „simple‟ way all of our engineering data, like
drawings, model, technical documents. We can do „where used‟ queries to analyse our products. We can now share
technical data
throughout our entire company…..”
Mark Brouwers
Software Engineer – LAG Trailers
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16. DDM Licensing
• Office
• Floating license per user
• Professional
• Floating license per user, including Office functionality
• Web
• Site based license for unlimited users
• RIFS
• Server based license, 1 required per server
• Replicator
• Server based license, 1 per customer
Web based licensing tools available
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17. Bytec Case Study
Find out how Bytec use DDM and the benefits it brings them:
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18. Thank you
Please feel free to ask questions
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