Autodesk PLM 360

The Autodesk company announced in February, 2012 the beginning of sales of the new solution on product lifecycle management (PLM) of Autodesk of PLM 360 based on cloud computing. Unlike the traditional PLM solutions — as a rule, difficult and expensive — Autodesk of PLM 360 can be set and configured quickly under specifics of industrial enterprises, says Autodesk. This cloud applicaion is held for use not only in the field of management of engineering data and structures of products (BOM), but also in other spheres of business. With its help the employees solving the most different problems: from planning and development before quality assurance and an after-sale service, can get expanded access to necessary information that will allow them to improve constantly products which they develop and make.

Autodesk of PLM 360 has the modern interface and broad functionality. Besides, the solution is proposed by the flexible, not requiring programming approach to customization. It reduces need to resort to expensive services of programmers and consultants, emphasized in Autodesk. Business processes for all product lifecycle optimize tens of standard applications. It is possible to adapt them to needs of each specific company just using the drag&drop function. At the same time it is not necessary to purchase any add-on modules, developers claim.

It is also necessary to note that Autodesk of PLM 360 is the multiuser cloud applicaion. Employees and heads should not worry about updates any more and to fight against effects of unsuccessful adaptation — the product is always relevant and compatible to any client configuration, claim in Autodesk. Specialists of IT departments are exempted from routine operations on system management as the program works in completely controlled data center ensuring safety, high performance and fault tolerance. Autodesk of PLM 360 provides data access at any time and from any place, whether it be using the smartphone, the tablet computer or via the Internet browser.

Besides, Autodesk of PLM 360 can be integrated with the systems which are already installed at the enterprise, including with the Autodesk Vault system intended for product data management (PDM).

As opposed to the standard circuits of licensing accepted in the field of PLM the model of a subscription to Autodesk of PLM 360 simplifies process of acquisition of a product. According to conditions of the agreement signed for a year, access to the full-function version is provided to the first three users free of charge, and everyone the subsequent gets monthly access to a product approximately for the one tenth part of cost of other PLM solutions having similar functionality, reported in the company. Conditions of acquisition of Autodesk of PLM 360 can differ depending on the country.

The structure of Autodesk 360 for PLM

The solution of Autodesk 360 for PLM is based on cloud computing of Autodesk. The structure of Autodesk 360 for PLM will include the following products: Autodesk of 360 Nexus, Autodesk Vault and Autodesk Buzzsaw.

Autodesk of 360 Nexus are the cloud product providing profitability, convenience and simplicity of deployment of Autodesk 360 for PLM by the principle "the software as service" (SaaS). Advantages of business applications to product lifecycle management become available to users where those were. Software costs and risks at the same time considerably decrease, claim in Autodesk.

Autodesk Vault represents a data management system about products which are turned out by the enterprise. With its help design divisions arrange and trace information on a projects status, manage specifications and processing of notifications on changes. Autodesk Vault freely interacts with Autodesk of 360 Nexus.

At last, Autodesk Buzzsaw is the solution for joint work based on cloud computing over the project providing safe exchange of the project documentation with other participants of the distributed collective and partners. The version of Autodesk Buzzsaw provides continuous access to the most up-to-date information for mobile devices.