PDM Software Solutions
Make product data your competitive advantage.
Unite your entire organization around clean, consistent data from sales to the shop floor. Drive consistency and accuracy, and gain a complete view of your business.
Time Check: How are mission-critical engineering hours being used?
Your engineering team might spend more time finding and finessing data than leveraging it to solve business problems. Do they know which silo holds the truth?
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Store your disparate data in a secure, centralized repository instead of scattered across spreadsheets, emails, and shared drives.
What is PDM (Product Data Management)?
Product Data Management, or PDM, is a structured way to organize and control the technical information behind a product. It brings product data and the processes around it into a single system, so engineering teams can manage CAD files, bills of materials, and design documentation in one place. With a centralized source of truth, teams can collaborate more easily, track revisions, and keep projects moving without confusion.
As products grow more complex due to customization, global teams, and supply chain pressures, managing that information with shared drives or manual processes quickly falls apart. That is where formal PDM software like Autodesk Vault becomes essential. It keeps product data organized, controls versioning, and helps reduce costly errors throughout the development process.
Effective PDM saves time and reduces risk.
Get help with PDM and Autodesk Vault.
If you are ready to drive efficiency, innovation, and security across your organization, you need to get the right information to the right people at the right time. At KETIV, we can help you achieve your data management goals and future-proof your business.
Autodesk Product Data Management (PDM) Services
KETIV’s Data Management team of experts brings proven methodologies to help with every aspect of data management to enable end-to-end digital manufacturing.
- Data Management Consulting
- Data Analysis, Cleansing, Metadata Enrichment, and Migration
- Custom Programming and Integration
- Cloud Hosting, Automated Server Backup, Server Replication
“Very few Autodesk Inventor users’ production time was disturbed during the last upgrade. The team was back up and running the following work day.”
Get Autodesk Vault PDM Software Support
Gain access to KETIV Vault engineers. Seasoned experts will help you implement best practices, advanced configuration, and optimization of your Vault.
- Installation, Maintenance & Upgrades
- Configuration & Enhancements
- Vault User Access Management
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- SQL Performance Tuning
“I’m not an IT guy…spending time going through Vault files is not something I should be spending my time on.”
Deploy Autodesk Vault PDM Software in the Cloud
Ready to get started? Learn more about Autodesk Vault and how to install, optimize and configure Vault to start on your own. Or, make it easy with Vault in the Cloud by KETIV.
- Cloud based
- Secure
- Accessible anywhere
- Includes support, upgrades, backups, and more
“Having KETIV host our Vault in the Cloud has made it so much easier to make changes quickly by not having to go through our third-party IT anymore.”
Learn more about PDM and Vault.
Frequently asked questions about managing engineering data
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- Manages and stores all product-related information in one centralized, intelligent repository.
- Shows engineering teams only the latest versions of the design and engineering files.
- Maintains an audit trail and revision history showing who made what changes and when.
- Shows in real-time if a colleague is modifying a file maintain the highest data quality.
A great PDM solution can revolutionize your engineering data management.
But other teams can benefit from a PDM Tool also. Manufacturing, purchasing, sales, product management, and more–people who might not even know what CAD models are–can access 3D views and multi-level BOMs. They can even leave comments and attach associated PDFs and Excel documents if required. -
Product data management software and Product lifecycle management software are not mutually exclusive. Quite the opposite: ideally, you want to have both. You store your product design data in PDM software. You keep all the information about that design data in a PLM system. And the two systems talk to each other. Where PDM stays focused within your engineering group, PLM take the engineering data and allows for bi-directional use of engineering data within the overall digital thread in a manufacturing organization.
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The better organized and more accessible your engineering data, the faster and more efficient your engineering team can be. Fast search, collaboration, re-use, design libraries, and data loss prevention are just a few of the benefits a well-build PDM system can provide.
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An effective product data management system reduces product development costs, wastage, errors, and unhappy customers. PDM improves the product development process by securing critical intellectual property in a single source of truth. Organized data at engineers’ fingertips reduces wasted time searching for files, recovering lost information, and allow for quicker decision making, reducing costs in engineering and design.
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Centralized and organized data makes meeting business and regulatory requirements easier (and monumentally less stressful). Recalling records, verifying versions, authorship – all readily available during audits.
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A best-in-breed PDM software, like Autodesk Vault, has a robust security component to protect your intellectual property. Role management, permissions, secure folders, project-based security, and associated access privileges give you peace of mind.
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Having a single source of truth for data gets everyone on the same page. Everyone uses and communicates around the same files, breaking down silos and boosting agility, responsiveness, and creativity. Vault PDM users can easily share 2D or 3D views of their work with other stakeholders and exchange comments and feedback. It’s a perfect solution for distributed teams.
With a PDM tool, you keep product-related information in sync across multiple sites. Adding and removing users, teams, and locations can be done in a matter of clicks, making scaling effortless. -
Young engineers want to work for companies with high-integrity data and the software required to exploit it. A formal PDM system is a prerequisite for attracting top engineering talent and opens the door to incredible technological innovation. Having your data in PDM makes the onboarding process more manageable too. Why? Because you don’t waste time training new hires on the peculiarities of your product data management strategy.