EZ-PDM is an affordable and effective software application that provides a centralized location to organize and store all the unstructured electronic content created in various disparate software applications during the lengthy product development process. Data may include sketches, schedules, reports, matrices, spreadsheets, artwork, engineering costing, tooling, budgets and other information. Using EZ-PDM, product development teams have a central source of information and senior managers have a powerful new tool to improve communication, collaboration, efficiency and time-to-market.

With EZ-PDM, senior managers can quickly review project elements, evaluate and comment on source materials; assign and monitor tasks; create to-do lists; poll colleagues; and quickly communicate with team members. The value of EZ-PDM is that it automatically links comments, assignments and tasks to the related source content.

Company team members will have quick access to information on virtually any aspect of their projects. It requires no internal IT involvement and no onsite software installation, maintenance or support.

Additionally, since EZ-PDM is not designed to duplicate or replace the functionality of commonly used data creation applications (i.e. MS Word, Excel, PhotoShop, Quark, Illustrator, CAD systems), it requires little or no user training. In fact, EZ-PDM enhances the value of these popular tools.

Key EZ-PDM Functions

• Provide a central location for all the disparate information involved in a product development process regardless of content creation tool or source
• Provide senior management with an overview of all product development activity
• Provide a central arena to collect all comments from all team members using automated links to source data thus reducing confusion/ambiguity associated with complex, often-edited unstructured information
• Provide a single area to capture all to-do lists and monitor all task completion
• Create a living archive of activity and streamlines changes to team participants

 

   EZ-PDM Benefits

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