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5 Tips for a Remote Design Review

We’ve worked with hundreds of designers, engineers, product owners and managers this year to find new, better ways to collaborate in our new remote world. We’ve consolidated that information into 5 key practices to keep your reviews on track. 
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Engineer or Process Admin?

When you dreamed of becoming an engineer you probably imagined inventing new technology, building machines, and creating new solutions to solve the world’s problems. You probably didn’t imagine how many emails, issue spreadsheets, change orders, review meetings, and powerpoint decks would be involved along the way.
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Next-Gen Drawing Reviews - Distributed, Digital & Collaborative

We are helping teams digitize their drawing review process so they can collaborate in real-time with their distributed team from anywhere in the world, including their own homes.
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6 Ways CoLab Can Help You Go Remote

Now more than ever, teams are looking to go remote. With travel restrictions, work-from-home policies and disjointed supply chains, communication and productivity challenges are at an all time high.
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5 Tips for Working Remotely

Its become increasingly clear that remote work is here to stay and will continue to grow - flexible hours and work environment are starting to become the norm. Here are 5 tips that worked for us when we first went remote during a state of emergency in January 2020.
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Automate Issue Tracking the Right Way

Design and manufacturing projects are often complex, and involve many distributed stakeholders, which can make tracking a team’s progress difficult and time-consuming. Learn how automating your issue tracking process could help you better manage your team and your projects.
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Using Jira for Hardware Development: What You Need to Know

Whether you specifically want to be more agile in your product design process or you simply want to find better ways for your team to work, here’s what you need to know about using Jira for hardware development.
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How to Hire SolidWorks Stars

Has your design team been feeling overwhelmed? Maybe it's finally time to find that new hire that could save your team some stress. We're here to help with some advice for finding that next SolidWorks Star for your team.
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Why PLM Alone Won’t Solve Design Collaboration Challenges

Despite being a universal platform used in the product development process, PLM has limited value for daily design team collaboration.
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8 Questions You Should be Asking Before a Design Review

To ensure your next design project is a success, we've put together the 8 questions you should be asking ahead of a design review.