Active Workspace

Active Workspace is the personalized environment for access to all ecosystem of PLM providing to all users the necessary information in due time for acceptance of optimal solutions. Highly effective searching tools and visualization, simple and powerful tools of support of joint work and also the revolutionary user interface are provided in Active Workspace. Active Workspace is a multidisciplinary platform of decision support by means of which the specialists working with the PLM solution will be able to make optimal solutions and to create high-quality products.

It is the intuitive, visualized and personalized environment providing instant access to expanded 3D - information that considerably increases performance of work of PLM systems. Active Workspace is one more important step to implementations of the concept of High Definition PLM (HD-PLM) offered Siemens PLM Software which helps to make reasoned decisions with bigger efficiency and confidence.

Today many companies own huge arrays of information created during the course of performance processes of lifecycle of products. These data are not used properly, often they are scattered in different places and are stored in databases untied among themselves. Such information potentially could improve decision making process. However its search, studying and decision making on the basis of the received data are complicated, take away a lot of time and are very expensive. The product Active Workspace working together with other technologies from Siemens PLM Software is an effective solution for instant collecting and submission of all information in a clear and evident type that provides more complete understanding of a situation and allows to make effective decisions on implementation of innovations.

"All companies and specialists face a problem of the information overload caused by the growing speed and amounts of data, the sources arriving from a set — Chuck Grindstaff, the chief executive officer of Siemens PLM Software notes. Active Workspace helps the enterprises to cope with this problem and to considerably increase quality of decision making process, submitting PLM information in the way, optimal and clear for all users. The product Active Workspace is based on our concept by HD-PLM. He creates the intuitive and personalized 3D - the interface that considerably raises possibilities of our packet of the PLM solutions on instant providing knowledge to those for whom they are necessary, in the right place and in the necessary context, for the purpose of support of fast and optimal decision making".

In process of the continuous growth of complexity of products, the PLM solution supporting processes of designing, development and production of such products extends for work everything with large volumes of data, number of functions and users. Visualization of any information, whether it be the text, the network diagram, product model, is crucial for understanding of structure of a product. In Active Workspace there are simple instruments of visualization and information search in use. As soon as the necessary information is found, it is easy to save or send it to other specialists.

"Permanent growth of complexity of products requires creation of the powerful platform of decision support which simplifies information exchange and joint work" — Joe Barkai, the director of implementation of strategy of product lifecycle management, IDC Manufacturing Insights says. "Such dynamic decision making support system as Active Workspace, allows to browse information in a technical and commercial context that allows to make optimal and exact solutions".

Active Workspace is a system with ample opportunities of scaling, capable to work in the PLM environment of any type and the size containing from hundreds to millions of information units and also to work also with huge document files, and difficult 3D - geometry. Active Workspace helps to turn all this complexity into competitive advantage thanks to the built-in means of data filtering allowing to receive instantly search results. It provides fast and highly effective visualization 3D - data, combined with the necessary information on a product that serves as active support of process of acceptance of optimal solutions.

Integral part of a system is the joint work support helping users in search of the necessary specialists who need to be involved in decision making process. Active Workspace simplifies data exchange, necessary for decision making, and gives the chance of reuse of information for use of optimal working methods at the solution of similar tasks in the future.