Design with Insight!

Effective design management is essential to achieving the time-to-market, quality and cost objectives of design organizations. Solid Edge Insight™ unites design management capabilities with the powerful Solid Edge CAD tools that engineers and designers use every day.

Solid Edge Insight is an innovative solution that seamlessly integrates CAD, design management and web-based collaboration into a single tool that is easy to implement and manage. Solid Edge Insight removes the perceived barriers to successful PDM implementation, while still providing the fundamental capabilities that companies expect in order to successfully manage design data.

Built on the Microsoft® SharePoint® business productivity platform for ease-of-use, fast implementation and low total cost of ownership, Solid Edge Insight manages and leverages design data in a manner that is unobtrusive and transparent in daily work routines.

Engineering managers and design office administrators get easy access to Solid Edge Insight through the web portal that enables fast retrieval of design data, visualization and design task management.

Designers using Solid Edge benefit from transparent access to Insight™, as data management capabilities are embedded inside the standard Solid Edge dialog boxes.

Solid Edge Insight features include:

• Microsoft SharePoint platform for business productivity
• Secure vaulting with check-in/check-out
• Comprehensive access control through configurable user roles
• Transparent data management while working in Solid Edge
• CAD product structure management and BOM creation 
• Rapid searching and “where used” reporting
• Revision and release management
• Task management and workflow capability
• Offline mode with synchronization on reconnection
• Web portal for wider access to design data
• Insight™ Connect for tightly coupled collaboration
• Easy implementation and low total cost of ownership

Unlike conventional product data management systems, Solid Edge Insight is not a separate software package with additional commands and long implementation timelines. Instead, Insight is an integral component of Solid Edge, available at no additional cost, which requires no user training and can be implemented in hours instead of months or years.