Product Lifecycle Management (Australasia) (PLMA) has announced the latest release of NX PLM software - NX7.0. This latest PLM software release introduces HD3D, an open and intuitive visual environment to help global product development teams unlock the value of PLM information and significantly enhance their ability to make efficient and effective product decisions.
Additionally, NX 7.0 PLM software includes enhancements to synchronous technology, the computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) productivity software introduced with NX6.0. These enhancements will further accelerate a variety of product development tasks and expand the unmatched ability of NX to effectively work with data from third party CAD applications.
“The introduction of synchronous technology and its implementation into NX has earned high praise, not only from the vast majority of CAD/CAM/CAE specialists and industry analysts, but more importantly from the companies that deployed it to boost their design productivity,” said Dennis Colusso, Director of PLMA. “Today’s launch of NX 7.0 builds on that productivity leadership with the addition of significant new synchronous technology functionality, and the exciting introduction of HD3D, an innovative environment that will accept data from a variety of sources to set a new standard for ‘High-Definition’ visual analytics in product development.”
Globalisation and an escalating regulatory environment, coupled with the increasing sophistication of virtually all manufactured products, has created a complex product development process for companies worldwide. Many decisions need to be made throughout product development based on information that exists in a variety of formats and locations, and usually created on software applications from different vendors. The speed and accuracy with which those decisions can be made has a profound effect on a company’s success.
“A natural and effective way to address these obstacles is to use visual information as a way to communicate across barriers and level the playing field for all participants,” said Joe Barkai, Practice Director of Product Lifecycle Strategies for IDC Manufacturing Insights. “A collaborative decision-making process and visually-assisted tools that support it are essential for expeditious, informed and reliable decisions. Using these tools will facilitate better communication and understanding, and increase the fidelity of informed decisions across the enterprise.”