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SmartEngineer™ — Improving Engineering, Quality and Manufacturing Collaboration
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Jul 3, 2008, 07:59

Quality is paramount in all regulated industries, but Quality by Design is starting the product process SMART!  For companies that do not engage Product Lifecycle/Data Management (PLM/PDM) systems, managing daily product engineering designs can be a daunting task, and may result is exposure to regulatory risk for design controls and decreased efficiency, countless revisions, and increased expenses.  Pilgrim’s SmartEngineer™ technology, an optional solution designed to integrate Engineering with Quality, Change Management and Compliance, enables companies to manage 3-D and 2-D CAD models within Pilgrim’s Document Management solution (SmartDoc™).
 
With SmartEngineer, organizations now have a single organization-wide solution for all their document management needs, whether for quality, manufacturing, operational or engineering documents.  All parts of the organization and management can easily stay abreast of changes, escalations and action items, making it easier to manage new product innovation across the product value chain, minimize design issues, and expedite the time to market.
 

SmartEngineer™  Provides Enterprise-wide Visibility and Version Control SmartEngineer provides an organization version control for all its engineering drawings in a centralized repository that can include all related product, process and quality documentation. By providing easy access to drawings and specifications, cross-functional barriers will reduce the overall design approval and transfer cycle, and eliminate costly "over-the-wall" syndrome between Engineering and Manufacturing. Quality and Manufacturing can more easily access, reference or even make change requests back to Engineering due to defects, complaints, corrective actions or other design change considerations such as improved manufacturability.

Check-In Screen -- SmartEngineer adapter in SmartDoc for documents created in 3rd party CAD Application. Click here to enlarge.

SmartEngineer™  Provides Practical Functionality Allows engineers to directly open and save configurations from their CAD program Supports the rendering (secondary file format) of model configurations into PDF for users without native CAD program access Automatically detects all components associated with a configuration (sub-assemblies, parts, etc.) Automatically detects changes, additions and deletions to components associated with a configuration for file version management Maintains configuration to component relationship within SmartDoc Maintains non version-controlled "support" files for each configuration

CAD documents published in SmartDoc for general viewing in PDF format. Click here to enlarge.

 
The Integrated Compliance Platform

Pilgrim’s SmartEngineer is a fully-integrated part of the Pilgrim Software’s Enterprise Compliance and Quality Platform. Pilgrim Software provides an enterprise–wide solution for managing corrective and preventive actions, complaint handling, change control management, internal and external audits, document control, SOP enforcement, engineering collaboration, employee certification and training, equipment/calibration, supplier quality management, advanced quality planning and risk management. This powerful solution enables you to manage quality and compliance across your entire business, helping you meet regulatory requirements, increase efficiency and reduce costs.

More Information

• Read more in-depth information in Pilgrim's SmartEngineer™ data sheet