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What is ENOVIA Live Collaboration?
ENOVIA Live Collaboration™ is a standards-based, open and scalable system able to support the largest, most complex, product lifecycle management deployments. It provides the flexibility to easily configure business processes, user interfaces, and infrastructure options to ensure that they meet your organization’s needs. The system enables you to continually drive business process improvements to operate more efficiently using pre-built metrics reports, while virtual workplace capabilities enable ad-hoc collaboration for cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams to securely share product content. All product development content can be routed for review and managed in repeatable workflow business process.
ENOVIA Live Collaboration™ provides the backbone for product lifecycle management activities within a workgroup, enterprise, or extended enterprise, depending on the organization’s needs. It is comprised of the following core software components:
- ENOVIA Studio Modeling Platform (optional)
- ENOVIA Live Collaboration Server
- ENOVIA Live Collaboration Business Process Services.
Detailed instructions for installing the ENOVIA Live Collaboration are provided in the ENOVIA Live Collaboration™ Installation Guide.
What is the ENOVIA VPM Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform?
The ENOVIA VPM Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform is an add-on which is installed on top of an ENOVIA Live Collaboration core. The ENOVIA VPM Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform operates solely on the ENOVIA Live Collaboration to provide a common modeling capability for all ENOVIA PLM applications found within the VPLM brands.
ENOVIA Live Collaboration and ENOVIA VPM Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform, inside the PLM Enterprise Foundation, provide connectivity between the PLM IP Modeling and PLM Collaborative Business Process applications allowing these engineering and business process tools to efficiently communicate.
The PLM Core Model
The ENOVIA VPM Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform leverages the fundamentals of the PLM Core model:
- PLM Reference
- PLM Representation
- PLM Instance
- PLM Connection
- PLM Port
to associate PLM objects while delivering high performance and scalability.
Examples of user requests modeled by the ENOVIA VPM Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform include:
- create part
- lock/unlock instance
- save product structure
- version part
- expand product structure
- manage lifecycle/maturity.
The advanced modeling techniques used by the ENOVIA VPM Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform preserve all of the relational links between PLM objects throughout the duration of each object's lifecycle to provide an unbreakable ENOVIA VPLM data model, regardless of the amount of data or number of users.
Sample Customization
The ENOVIA VPM Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform provides a default VPM customization sample (data structures, policies, etc.).
The sample customization is intended to be used as a starter and to understand how the PLM core model works. The sample customization is in no way intended to be deployed for production purposes, and should rather be used as a starting point/sample for building a new Data Model Customization (DMC) referred to as a Customer-Specific Environment.
In parallel, the ENOVIA VPM Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform provides the Rapid Application Configured Environment (RACE), a ready-to-use solution making ENOVIA V6 fast and easy to deploy.