Overview

ENOVIA® Engineering Central™ allows users throughout the extended enterprise to collaborate and manage the engineering change process in a secure internet environment. Engineering Central is part of the ENOVIA products integrated Web-based software.

Engineering Central creates a competitive advantage by addressing key product development business challenges including:

  • Improved communication and collaboration with global development teams composed of internal and external resources
  • Part and EBOM management capabilities that provide a single enterprise-wide definition of software, electronic and mechanical product information
  • Global product development and change processes that provide the right information to the right users at the right time
  • Synchronization with design in-work progress for CATIA® and other CAD tools, and 3D visualization
  • Reporting capabilities tailored to meet the needs of multiple functional areas such as change and BOM management

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with the shared components installed with all ENOVIA applications that provide consistency of features across all applications. Common features allow ENOVIA applications to manage information such as user and company profiles, documents, and routes, based on company roles rather than on the application used. For details, see the Common Components User's Guide (or review the Common Components Help).

For details on how the user interface works and the common tools such as search, filters, printer-friendly pages, sorting, structure navigator, export, and charting found throughout all ENOVIA applications, see the Application Exchange Framework User's Guide (or review the AEF Help).

Common feature behaviors that are unique to Engineering Central are described in this user's guide.

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step user tasks, which cover all product functions.

The conventions used in this guide and within the application are:

  • Remove/Delete—In this guide and within the application, the term delete is used to refer to an action that deletes an item from the database, which means the item is no longer available for viewing or choosing. The term remove is used to refer to an action that disconnects one item from another. The disconnected item is still in the database and is still available for connecting to another item and viewing.
  • Add/Create—Similar to the remove/delete distinction, adding means to connect or associate an existing item to another item. Create means to add an item to the database.

You can get help on the Engineering Central page you are working with by clicking on the page. A separate help window opens that displays the help topic for the page along with a navigable table of contents for the User's Guide.

Note: Published examples in this document, including but not limited to scripts, programs, and related items, are intended to provide some assistance to customers by example. They are for demonstration purposes only. It does not imply an obligation for ENOVIA to provide examples for every published platform, or for every potential permutation of platforms/products/versions/etc.