Solving Communication Breakdown in Your Business
Summary
While a change might originally seem small in scope, it often snowballs into a big production that can have consequences if a communication breakdown occurs at any point in the process; even if getting clarification on something takes 5 minutes each time that quickly turns into hours wasted a day when working with more than a handful of team members. An additional place for communication breakdown is when you spend time meticulously building complex parts and assemblies in 3D, detailing every aspect of the design only to simplify it to a couple of 2D drawing views. SOLIDWORKS PDM has the Web2 client that allows access to the vaulted files from a web browser, requiring no local installation, and enables external users to interact with workflows, approving or rejecting changes. Further, SOLIDWORKS Manage has additional integration for Microsoft Outlook and can share direct links to external members to increase collaboration and reduce communication breakdown. If collaboration needs to extend past redlining, external members can be invited to your 3DEXPERIENCE tenant and permissions can be set to give them authority to interact with engineering processes as if they were inside your building.