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Everyone wants to make good decisions.  And as everyone knows, to make good decision you need data. Not just any data, but the right data.  In the good old days, when data was easy and uncomplicated to access, the hard part in making a good decision was making the decision. Today, that’s changed.  The hard part in making a good decision is…

Inforbix Duplicates is the new kid on the block of Inforbix apps.  The general idea behind this app came from people requesting a way to help them identify duplicated content in their organization.  For many companies that work with CAD, Excel, PDF and other file types, duplicate content is generated by people for all sorts of reasons, e.g. revisions, edits, shared downloads, etc.  You may be tempted to remark that data…

Product data is everywhere and has a knack of hiding in different specialized systems, files, and formats. Manufacturing companies generate and use vast amounts of specialized and complex product data that make decision support difficult. Product data is difficult to access because it is sourced within different file types and fragmented across disparate departments and information silos.…

The BYOD (i.e. Bring Your Own Device) to work trend has enabled companies and people to take advantage of their personal mobile devices for work related tasks.  For engineers, accessing their product data on the go such as CAD files outside the office could be very helpful.  The Inforbix Mobile app for the iPad makes it possible for an entire engineering team or company to go mobile instantly.  All it takes is for any …

Reusing product data contained in CAD file is a common task performed by engineers in manufacturing companies.  For many people, however, finding and accessing CAD files from multiple locations and sources within their company is a time consuming process.  The process usually involves searching through many folders and directories on different file servers, asking people for help, and figuring out how to use unfamiliar data management systems...…

A few weeks ago we announced support for SpaceClaim data types.  If you use SpaceClaim, you can now use Inforbix to help you find, aggregate, access, reuse, and share SpaceClaim data types from multiple locations in your company...read…

Bill of Materials are the meats and potatoes of every manufacturing company.  To have Bill of Material information available is essential to manage product development processes. To have drawing Bill of Materials is especially important to feed other processes with initial product structure. Keeping track of drawing BOMs can be a big challenge.  On today’s post, I want to show you how easy it is to extract a drawing bill of materials from any CAD drawing in your company and…

Inforbix attended SolidEdge University (SEU) this week in Nashville, TN.  Upon my morning arrival to the hotel, I was greeted by many stars:

And despite the steamy June Nashville climate outside, thanks to the very efficient A/C, temps inside the hotel were kept…

Data has been with us forever.  Our life and work is all about data such as documents, projects, dates, personal files, plans, and so on. With the growing pace of life and business we are generating ever increasing amounts of data everyday. Our lives today are driven by data and all things digital more so than ever before.  For companies,…

Create project reports on the fly using data sourced from anywhere in your company.  Here's how. 

This week Inforbix will be attending the SemTech conference in San Francisco.  In addition, I’ll be given an opportunity to give a presentation on how semantic technology is applied in manufacturing. Navigate here to read a synopsis of what I will present.  On today’s post, I want to…

Massachusetts is well known as a place where many engineering and manufacturing software companies were started.  In a recent Boston Globe article, Rt. 128 was named as a center of manufacturing software development, navigate here to read the article.  Mass is well on it’s way for also taking a leadership role in the important topic of big data.  I recently read about…

Design, Engineering and Manufacturing are all becoming extremely collaborative.  These are the types of environment where a single person cannot do much on their own, they need to work with others. People need to work with their customers on requirements; collaborate within design teams with different…

How many data types and sources exist in your company?  If you work for a typical manufacturing company there are many data types and sources in use.  For example, data can be found within CAD documents, in assemblies, in Excel, in PDFs, in PDM and PLM systems, and even in ERP and CRM systems. Moreover, regardless how data is organized in a company, chances are the product you need for a given task or project is fragmented across different sources and locations.  Some of it will be…

We promised to continuously deliver new apps to help you get more out of your product data . Today, I’m going to share a sneak preview of an app that will soon be available.  Have a look at a recent blog post I wrote about finding file duplicates, …