A product makes a lot more sense when you can understand what it looks like and how it fits within your network of product lifecycle management (PLM) information. With Active Workspace, you can easily locate, browse and visualize products in greater detail using intuitive graphical controls. New high-performance visualization capabilities also allow you to view products in a fraction of the time previously required. Finally, seeing how that data relates to the network of information that supports and defines it helps you make timely, high-quality decisions.

How much of the product is ready for production? Is it over-weight or under-budget? What issues need to be resolved? With Active Workspace, you can very easily investigate these details directly on the 3D product model with a color-coded, easy-to-understand, visual report. Color-coding on the model makes it easier to see how a product meets key metrics, avoiding the need for additional software.

Do you have a search you always run, or a report that you keep coming back to? Do you need to share that information with somebody else? Active Workspace includes a new concept called “the shelf”. Simply take your data − whether it is a filtered list of search results, a color-coded visual report, or anything else − and drop it on the shelf. It could be your shelf, another team member’s shelf, or it could even be a shared shelf for the whole team. Once something is on the shelf, anybody else with access can reference the data, confident that the information is accurate and current.

One key to effective collaboration is knowing the right person to collaborate with. Do you need to work with the responsible engineer? Do you want to review a design with somebody on the manufacturing shop floor? Active Workspace will suggest appropriate people for the issues you wish to address. You can then take any piece of information and start collaborating.

Sometimes it seems like you need to know a lot about what you are trying to find, before you can find it. Plus, you often have multiple places to go to in order to find that information. That simply isn’t intuitive, and gets in the way of good decision-making. Active Workspace takes a different approach. Capabilities such as fast performance, suggested results filters, and access to external systems make finding the right information faster and easier than ever.