Autodesk Partner Blog Post - Benefits of Connecting Your PLM and PDM Solutions

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Autodesk Partner Blog Post - Benefits of Connecting Your PLM and PDM Solutions

When used together, PDM and PLM software provide a combined solution that is the best of all worlds for product data and process management. Connectors between PLM and PDM software allow for seamless integration between the two systems. Without a connector, data from the PDM system would need to be manually transferred to the PLM system, which wastes your engineers’ time and leaves your data and processes open to human error.

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How is Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage Integrated with Upchain?

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How is Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage Integrated with Upchain?

The industry is moving towards a software-as-a-service (SaaS) infrastructure.  Fusion 360 Manage, Upchain and the core of PLMConnect, Nexus, are all SaaS solutions leveraging REST APIs. The benefit of course is that updates occur in the background and are non-disruptive to the existing processes.  And by combining abstraction of the various processes to the middleware, no-code integrations can be established.  PLMConnect truly embraces this next-generation approach to connectivity and we’re thrilled to be providing a solution that seamlessly connects Fusion 360 Manage with Upchain resulting in a best in class PLM offering!

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Announcing PLMConnect - Connecting Fusion 360 Manage and Upchain

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Announcing PLMConnect - Connecting Fusion 360 Manage and Upchain

Announcing PLMConnect - Connecting Fusion 360 Manage and Upchain. The vdR Group is thrilled to announce the launch of PLMConnect!  PLMConnect enables Fusion 360 Manage (F3M) and Upchain to seamlessly work together. We think it’s a big deal.  With F3M and Upchain now being sold together as a single product by Autodesk, PLMConnect ensures these products perform as a best-in-class PLM platform with true SaaS and multi-CAD capabilities.

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How is an integration between OpenBOM and ERP established? Part 3 of a 3 Part Blog Series

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How is an integration between OpenBOM and ERP established? Part 3 of a 3 Part Blog Series

OpenBOM leverages Nexus as the “environment bonding” platform to exchange data with ERP and other enterprise platforms such as enterprise content management (ECM), manufacturing execution systems (MES), and maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO).  Nexus is published by the vdR Group, Inc. and is a true SaaS platform facilitated by its no-code integration capabilities.

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How Does an Integration Between OpenBOM and ERP Work? Part 2 of a 3 Part Blog Series

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How Does an Integration Between OpenBOM and ERP Work? Part 2 of a 3 Part Blog Series

Hence, the part/BOM release is easily the most common use case for an integration.  What may have taken hours and/or days is now literally executed in seconds.  When a user “digitally releases” a structure from OpenBOM, the event is almost instant. 

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Enterprise Search for Manufacturers - Webinar with vdR and Sinequa

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Enterprise Search for Manufacturers - Webinar with vdR and Sinequa

Every company is a technology (and information) company now, and the Digital Thread brings all your data, insights, designs, and processes into one location to find the connections that the raw data would have otherwise hidden. A true digital thread provides the means that future-thinking organizations need to succeed in a world where work will never be the same.

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Integrating OpenBOM with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solutions Part 1 of a 3 Part Blog Series

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Integrating OpenBOM with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solutions Part 1 of a 3 Part Blog Series

Why integrate OpenBOM and ERP? What would such an integration do? And how is it implemented? These questions will be the focus of a three (3) blog series.

So let’s kick it off with the first blog and a short (re)visit to the popular theme of the “digital thread.”

Simply put, the idea of the digital thread is to link data that is generated from across the product lifecycle of activities. There is a lot of buzz around this concept. Analysts, software vendors and industry thought leaders all purport its importance and value. Organizations may not use the same phrase, but they want and need improved efficiencies, the ability to streamline processes, automate menial and repetitive tasks, and ultimately improve their performance and competitiveness.

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vdR Group Partners With OpenBOM Enabling Low-Code Enterprise Application Integrations

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vdR Group Partners With OpenBOM Enabling Low-Code Enterprise Application Integrations

vdR is thrilled to announce our recent partnership with OpenBOM to enabling low-code integrations between OpenBOM and enterprise applications leveraging Nexus for OpenBOM. Nexus for OpenBOM is designed to treat data and processes unique to engineering and manufacturing transactions such as part/BOM release, document release, state-change event triggers, and more recently, data synchronization.

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vdR And Sinequa Launch Webinar Series: Enterprise Search for Manufacturers

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vdR And Sinequa Launch Webinar Series: Enterprise Search for Manufacturers

vdR is thrilled to continue building on our partnership with Sinequa with a dedicated webinar series focused on search for manufacturing. Learn more about our partnership.

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The Wait is Over - CADnection Release 1.2 is Here!

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CADnection coupled with Sinequa offers a next-generation enterprise search solution for manufacturing and engineering companies. This solution overview and demo highlights CAD search capabilities, native 2D and 3D viewing, where-used and composed-of insights, and property linking to ERP, PLM and other applications.

Duro Announces Partnership with vdR Group

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Partnership Helps Expand Duro’s PLM Integration Ecosystem

Disconnected silos of data are the bane of any business. This is especially true in the manufacturing industry for product data and change management solutions which are often isolated from downstream applications such as ERP, MES, and ECM. Each additional silo can dramatically impact delivery schedules, the cost of quality, and ultimately the bottom line.

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“What if engineering data and process management solutions could work with the broader enterprise to behave as one integrated solution? Users wouldn’t need to switch between applications to get the information they need. Parts, bills of materials, metadata, and documents and drawings could be automatically shared and/or exchanged at the right time to ensure everyone is on the same page,” said Martin van der Roest, President at vdR Group. “This tight integration between vdR’s Nexus platform and Duro’s powerful, yet simple PLM solution does just that.”

Duro’s revolutionary cloud-native PLM removes all of the friction that exists today when it comes to setting up and managing manufacturing and engineering software. Nexus builds on Duro’s vision by radically simplifying integrations without sacrificing the functionality and intelligence needed in today’s complex and fast-paced design and manufacturing lifecycle.