Actify Products Suite Data Sheet: The Future of Collaboration for Manufacturing Companies

Strategy Overview – The Virtual Manufacturing Company:

A common definition of a Virtual Company is: “An organization that uses computer and telecommunications technologies to extend its capabilities by working routinely with employees or contractors located throughout the country or the world. Using a various array of electronic technologies to communicate from e-mail, to high end collaboration tools. It implies a high degree of telecommuting as well as using remote facilities.”

The concept is not new, what is new is the plethora of new tools available to companies that make the concept easier to implement. Today’s manufacturing companies need to collaborate more and more efficiently going forward than at any time in the past. An era of mergers and acquisitions is now over and a loose coupling or the formation of a “Virtual Company” is looking far more attractive in today’s volatile economy.

Virtual Manufacturing Functionality:

Microsoft 2010 and the new SharePoint platform offers a base to change the way in which Manufacturing companies will collaborate. It is also anticipated that we will see an assortment of tools built on top of SharePoint that focus on the needs of Manufacturing companies – to help them share information in ways not seen before.

Microsoft is not alone in this arena, the announcements surrounding Google Wave, show that Google are also very interested in capturing market share in the collaboration space.

The other interesting development in the market place is the emergence of different business models within the PLM space. These include shareware and just lately PLM availability within the cloud. Some companies are employing the “Freemium” marketing concept in varying ways to new entice customers.

Key Strategic Benefits of Virtual Manufacturing:

  • Understanding and Taking Advantages of the Very Best Virtual Resources
  • Build an Infrastructure for Creating Teams on an As-Needed Basis
  • Focus on Key Strengths and Collaborate with Best In Class Niche Vendors

Actify Products Suite for Virtual Manufacturing Solutions:

The Actify suite of products has an approach that allows people to access, work with, share and re-purpose 2D and 3D design images and/or product data without the need for the Native CAD system on which the design was created. Actify: Product data anywhere.

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