Hagerman & Company Offers Autodesk Productstream

As I’m sure most people have already heard, Autodesk has re-entered the data management market with Autodesk Vault and Autodesk Productstream. Hagerman & Company is offering full support and implementation services for Vault and Productstream along with the Cyco AutoManager Meridian and TeamWork products that we have been offering for the past four years.

Autodesk Vault and Productstream are focused on the mechanical design/manufacturing marketplaces. Anyone who has a current version of Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD Electrical or AutoCAD Mechanical actually has Autodesk Vault as part of their software package. Some of you may have already implemented it.

Autodesk Productstream is a separately purchased product that extends the power of Autodesk Vault with additional capabilities in the areas of:

• Release management
• ECO/change order processes
• Bills of material

Whereas Vault is designed to be used only by your CAD users, Productstream has modules which allow functionality to be extended to the entire enterprise including:

• Purchasing
• Production Control
• Manufacturing
• Sales
• Etc.

Major features of Productstream include:

• Promote and Update Items from Autodesk Vault - Automatically create items by promoting selected CAD design data. Changes to CAD designs can result in the creation of new items or updating of existing items.
• Revisions and Revision History - Control and review the history of items using a flexible revision numbering scheme that conforms to your company standard.
• Automated Item Numbering - Manage and enforce part numbering by automatically assigning a unique number to items according to your corporate standard
• Create Items Not Related to Files - Create and add new items in Autodesk® Productstream™ in order to create complete product bill of materials (BOMs).
• User-Defined Properties – Add any custom properties required for your item master/ERP system or needed for easy information search and retrieval
• Engineering Change Management - Create a process to manage engineering change orders (ECOs) that enables you to approve or reject all changes before release to manufacturing. Once changes are approved, you can easily track, audit, and monitor them, enabling you to quickly route changes to multiple people at the same time and avoid delays caused by ECO packages getting stuck on somebody’s desk.
• Lifecycle State Control - Track an item’s lifecycle state with indicators that automatically increment when an item changes state (“Work in Progress,” “Released,” and so forth) to ensure that products are not released before the design is finalized
• 2D and 3D Viewing and Markup - The DWF™ (Design Web Format™) file format makes it easy to view and mark up 2D and 3D designs as part of an engineering change process.
• BOM Editing and Comparison - Add, delete, or override quantities to maintain a true single product record and quickly identify the differences between BOMs by automatically comparing them.
• Where Used and Uses for Items - Analyze where items are included in existing Bill of Materials (BOMs) before making changes to the item. By revealing dependencies before making changes, you eliminate unanticipated, potentially costly consequences.
  Synchronization with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) – You can import existing items from your ERP system into Autodesk Productstream software, update the item master in Productstream as needed and export BOM data for import into most mainstream ERP systems.

At Hagerman & Company, we are very excited about being able to offer this functionality to our Autodesk customer base. For more information on Autodesk Productstream, feel free to contact your local Hagerman & Company representative.