This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the product.
This overview provides the following information:
Product Data Filtering in a Nutshell
Product Data Filtering helps you manage and protect intellectual property by providing a filtering mechanism integrated to your exchange processes. OEM, supplier chain and risk sharing partners are provided with only data they need to share to complete their product definition operations. As a result, your company knowledge is well kept without impairing data exchange requirement.
Before Reading this Guide
Prior to reading the Product Data Filtering User's Guide, you are recommended to have a look at the Infrastructure User's Guide for information on the generic capabilities common to all products.
Getting the Most Out of this Guide
To make the most out of this book, we suggest that a beginning user reads the Workbench Description to find his way around the Product Data Filtering actions. The User Tasks section gives a quick description of the operating mode of the various actions.