Insights: Make your design review and feedback data work for you
Insights presents you with KPIs and dashboards you can use to identify and eliminate process bottlenecks, address recurring design issues, and monitor the effectiveness of continuous improvement efforts.
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Uncover and attack bottlenecks
With so many factors at play, it can be hard to see exactly where your projects are being bottlenecked. With Insights, bottlenecks are surfaced simply as a result of doing design reviews. Insights will show you the average time it takes your team to complete design reviews over time and across projects. You’ll see trends, patterns, and outliers, making it easy for you to know what to investigate.
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Eliminate recurring issues to elevate design quality
A small number of recurring design issues are the reason for the majority of quality escapes. CoLab lets you create custom tags to label various types of design issues. Insights will display the breakdown of issues by tag so you can actively resolve the top sources of design errors.
Monitor continuous improvement efforts
Measuring the impact of process improvements is much easier when you have a baseline to work from. Insights gives you a baseline for review times and feedback volumes across projects. Now, when you implement changes, you’ll be able to measure their impact against your team’s averages. You’ll no longer have to operate based on feel alone, and can make pivots based on fact.
Integrations
You don’t need yet another disconnected software solution. That's why CoLab does two things:
- It integrates with your CAD and PLM software to create a connected tech ecosystem.
- It replaces the 5-10 apps you use to complete a single process workflow with 1-2 apps (CoLab + PLM, for example)
CoLab supports more than 70 file types, including native and neutral CAD and integrates with many PLM/PDM systems.
Aside from engineering system integrations, CoLab also integrates with Jira and supports security protocols, like SSO, user permissions and more.
Connecting CoLab with PLM and CAD is fast, easy, and secure
CoLab integrates with major PLM systems, including Windchill, Teamcenter, and 3DEXPERIENCE. You can share CAD directly to CoLab from your PLM, maintaining critical data associations. Because CoLab accepts 30+ file types, it’s easy to review native CAD, even if you’re working with a supplier or customer that uses a different CAD tool.
learn more about integrationsHow engineering teams use CoLab
Whether you’re discussing a prototype or a production drawing, CoLab makes sure everyone is on the same page. Review designs together, in 3D, and pin feedback directly to a model or drawing.
It shouldn’t be hard to tap into your supplier’s expertise. Whether you need DFM feedback or you’re running a multi-supplier RFQ, CoLab makes it easy to share CAD and drawings, exchange design feedback, and approve revisions.
With CoLab, you can make design expertise your competitive advantage. Run interactive technical evaluations with prospective customers to stand out in RFQs and grow your business.
CoLab helps engineering teams achieve 6, 7, and 8-figure cost reduction targets by giving you a repeatable way to run highly engaging value analysis events with groups of any size.
Better products start with better design conversations.
If you’re ready to see how CoLab can transform the way you work with suppliers, here’s how the process works.
- Every conversation starts with a discovery call. During this call, a technical expert will understand your team’s challenges with design review today
- Then, we’ll tailor a demo to address those challenges. This demo includes you, of course, but also some key members from your team who can speak to your challenges in greater detail and vet CoLab as the solution.
- Finally, we do a workshop with more members of your team. This is the fun part! During this workshop, your team will each have temporary CoLab licenses and participate in a sample design review. You and your team will be guided through key features and use cases right inside the CoLab platform.