CoLab is a cloud based platform purpose built for fast, effective design review. Using CoLab, multiple engineers, designers, and other stakeholders can review designs together and build off one another's feedback. The result is a more effective stage gate process for new product development, along with improved value analysis workshops and design for manufacturability exercises.
CoLab integrates with Windchill and Teamcenter, so you can share files to CoLab directly from within your PLM. This preserves associations between data, such as associations between a top level assembly and part files. Once the files are in CoLab, reviewers can exchange feedback by pinning comments to 3D models or drawings. After the review is done, you can attach an issue list or review summary as an artifact back in PLM.
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CoLab lets you bring valuable collaboration data – previously lost in email and docs – back into PLM. Collaborative processes can be integrated into PLM processes. For example, you can review open cost optimization ideas in CoLab, then initiate a lifecycle state change in Windchill.
Suppliers, customers, and even some internal teammates often lack the access or the knowhow to retrieve files from PLM for review. CoLab makes it easy for these stakeholders to review files, and navigate freely within models. Unlike email sharing, permissions are fully under your control, and you will always know how and where data is being transferred.
You can use CoLab for complex reviews while continuing to use tools like CreoView for markup. Markup tools are ideal for adding context to formal lifecycle changes in PLM. CoLab was built for complex reviews, where multiple people are exchanging ideas–often before a formal decision has been made. CoLab’s real-time review capabilities make these discussions more effective, while reducing clutter in your PLM system.
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Authorize access to CoLab directly from your existing identity provider/SSO solution, with support for all major identity providers.
Supports user groups, user attributes, and integration with supplier management systems.
Configurable domain restrictions and integration with supplier identity provider.
Work with a dedicated onboarding project manager to get up and running in weeks.
With a simple server side installation, integrate CoLab and PLM in 15-30 minutes
Brian Stauffer
Global Product Design Manager
Johnson Controls
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