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CAD Data Management

DesignHub

Solving the Design Data Dilemma

How can manufacturers manage their complex design data, including both MCAD and ECAD files, to streamline design, eliminate wasted time looking for design data, and improve collaboration? Jim Brown will moderate a webinar, From Chaos to Collaboration: Solving the Design Data Dilemma, to hear from Propel and their partners on how they can seamlessly manage…

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  • Webinars

Jim Brown - October 15, 2025 - Filed Under: Webinars, Presentations & Videos - Tagged With: ECAD Management, Propel, PLM, PDM, Product Data Management, Engineering Data Management, Design Data Management, MCAD Management, CAD Data Management, Design File Management, Digital Thread

Non-value-added time in CAD Design

The Game of Avoiding Wasted Time in CAD Design

Our research shows that engineers spend a significant percentage of their time, almost a day a week, on non-value-added data management activities such as finding information, working with the wrong data, recreating data, translating formats, and other common time wasting tasks. These time wasters cause them to miss deadlines, develop products with higher costs, miss…

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  • Infographics

Jim Brown - November 19, 2024 - Filed Under: Published Research, Infographics - Tagged With: CAD Data Management, NVA, CAD Management, PLM, Search, Time Wasters, PDM, Wasted Time, Collaboration, Inefficiency, Product Lifecycle Management, Non-Value-Added Time, Multi-CAD, Efficiency, Design Data Management, Benefits

Composable Architecture

PDTec offers Manufacturers Innovation through Integration

I caught up with an old friend who has an exciting new role as Executive Board Member and Co-Owner of PDTec, a company that I am excited to get to know better. The company offers a series of composable apps based on their data management platform, ice. NET. I love their tagline “innovation through integration”…

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  • Insights

Jim Brown - January 30, 2024 - Filed Under: Insights, Insights & Activity - Tagged With: Automotive Industry, Automotive OEM, Product Development, PDM, Product Data Management, Data Management, PDTec, CAD Data Management, Simulation Data Management, Document Management, Composable Apps, Systems Engineering Data Management, CAD Portal, composable architecture, Composite Apps

Avoid Wasting Design Time (infographic)

How can engineers avoid wasting precious design time on non-value-added data management tasks? Take a look at our new infographic Avoiding Time Wasters in CAD Design to see a graphical representation of our research. The “CAD Design Challenge” turns design into a board game that highlights key time wasters in design and the best practices…

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  • Infographics

Jim Brown - March 31, 2020 - Filed Under: Infographics, Published Research - Tagged With: PDM, Efficiency, Best Practices, CAD Data Management, Infographic, CAD Design, Time Wasters, Product Data Management Management

Cover CAD Data Management SMB

CAD Data Management (survey results)

How can smaller companies and design teams manage CAD data without taking away from their time to innovate and respond to customers? Smaller companies and design teams compete based on innovation and agility but face many of the same challenges in managing 3D CAD files that their larger competitors do. CAD Data Management for Small…

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  • Survey Results

Jim Brown - December 3, 2019 - Filed Under: Survey Results, Published Research - Tagged With: Small Companies, SMB, PDM, Product Data Management, SolidWorks, Best Practices, Design Data Management, CAD Data Management, Midsized Companies, Small Design Teams, Survey

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