PARTsolutions

PARTsolutions® LLC, a leading provider of enterprise, digital parts management solutions for the standard part process, announced today the successful conclusion of their 7th annual Industry Forum on Digital Parts Management and Digital Product Catalogs. Over 200 companies from around the world attended, with keynote presentations by Adobe, Siemens, UNIVER, Festo, Rittal. The Forum program included exhibits by many solutions providers, workshops to evaluate new technology hands-on, and a meeting by the Automotive Working Group.

There were over 20 presentations by industry and corporate experts in three major areas of digital parts management:

• Intelligent process chain optimization, parts management and parts consolidation.
• Successful and measurable marketing with digital product catalogs.
• Technical documentation based on a digital product master.

The audience was also shown part consolidation and management in the packaging machine industry by Andritz Group, the PARTsolutions interface to SAP PLM by CIDEON, the power of marketing data that comes with digital catalogs by UNIVER, quality certification of standard parts at Siemens, and a whole range of related topics.

The newest PARTsolutions release 8.1 was also announced at the event. PARTsolutions Interactive digital catalogs are the choice of suppliers and engineers worldwide, because PARTsolutions is CAD, ERP, and PLM technology independent and can provide native data to all the major CAD systems, including Pro/E Wildfire®, CATIA®, UG-NX®, I-DEAS®, Autodesk Inventor®, SolidEdge®, SolidWorks®, and more.