Cross enterprise change and release processes based on 3D PDF

Abstract

During the last decade, companies in the manufacturing industries have heavily invested into their PLM environments. So on the one hand enterprise processes like engineering release or engineering change management have been well organized inside the enterprise. On the other hand, supply chains have been heavily evolving in various manufacturing domains since the 1990's. Combined with this, the demand for cross enterprise collaboration has also highly increased. So there is the need for solutions, which take into account, that the participants of collaboration processes work in their own enterprise environments and therefore need solutions which can be integrated into varying enterprise environments. Nevertheless, each company of course has to take care to protect its Intellectual Property. The presentation gives an overview, how solutions based on 3D PDF can bring added value into this scenario by combining the contrary demands for "easy to use" solutions and IP protection for each enterprise. © Springer-Verlag London 2013.