A CRITICAL, YET AN OVERLOOKED PART OF PRODUCT DATA MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

The Spec Engine is a Product Data Management (PDM) solution that solves a problem overlooked by most everyone, except by the few people that are engaged in it’s creation, but may be the most critical piece of  data within an enterprise.  Let The Spec Engine derive  those cumbersome mathematical & descriptive attribute values accurately and consistently.

Create  and manage a new product specification easily and effectively

If your process of creating a new product specification (whether it is unique for a specific customer or for a standard item) involves a combination of mathematical formulas and  industry standard table lookups, the  The Spec Engine will simplify your effort, create results consistently and minimize errors. 

Once a product specification has been created changes are inevitable.  The consequences of that change can be enormous.   With The Spec Engine, if the product is a sub-assembly of other product specifications, the using specifications are immediately marked as outdated.  The out of date specifications can be evaluated and recalculated to consider the change impact.  

Revision control with Roll Back Capabilities

Through revision control, changes can be applied as desired and still retain the full set of attribute values of the earlier version. Provision is available to“Roll Back” to an earlier version. 

Knowledge retained via  Template and Formulas/Rules 

The extensive product knowledge of your senior design engineers (product specialists) is retained via product design templates, formulas/rules that are entered into The Spec Engine and reused over and over to derive the various attribute values (numerical or text). 

Dealing with many different & diverse Industry Standards Tables 

The data is automatically retrieved from the appropriate industry standard table and then presented as the resulting value of the attribute or inserted into a formula/rule that further derives a value.  The table data retrieval is a proven process that provides for the many diverse formats and uses of different standard organization’s tables 

Accelerate the Sale Quotation Process 

The sales quotation process may involve the manufacture of products that are variations of a family of standard product that had been previously designed and all attributes and calculations defined.  The use of the templates, formulas/rules and automatic retrieval of table data results in a completed product specification quickly and consistently.     

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