This book is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the ENOVIA SmarTeam - CATIA Supply Chain Engineering Exchange application.
This overview provides the following information:
In the manufacturing industry, suppliers are greatly involved in the design and the manufacturing of goods. Since early design, manufacturers (OEM) need to exchange data with their suppliers. This design and manufacturing process is becoming more and more global in nearly all industries.
The OEMs need to extract information from their information systems such as CAD documents, assembly structures, drawings and part definitions, to enable suppliers to receive the working context (such as a part of the 3D representation of a car) and/or a set of documents that will need to be updated.
The suppliers send the result of their work with updated or new CATIA documents, assembly structures, drawings or applicative data (kinematics, numerical command) to the OEMs.
The OEMs re-import this data into the corporate information systems.
Many companies use CATIA in collaboration with SmarTeam. Depending on the information semantic that needs to be exchanged, several tools are available. In case the CATIA design needs to be shared between the supplier and OEM, CATIA native files are exchanged between the OEM and the supplier. The SmarTeam Reconciliator makes it possible to interactively compare and reconcile a set of CATIA documents coming from an OEM or supplier with documents stored in a targeted SmarTeam installation.
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ENOVIA SmarTeam - CATIA Supply Chain Engineering Exchange (SEE) makes it possible to interactively compare and reconcile a set of CATIA documents coming from an OEM or supplier with documents stored in a targeted SmarTeam installation. The reconciliation process starts with the loading o f the source in CATIA V5, then enables to identify documents which are common between source and target, then compare them. Finally, as a decision support tool, it enables to manage the trade off between source and target This is done while maintaining links consistency and data integrity regardless of the source.
The graphical interface is flexible and intuitive and very productive. End user interactions can be minimized by the reconciliation business rules integrated in SEE. They can be enriched by an easy customization. By supporting heterogeneous OEM's or supplier's environments (e.g. SmarTeam, ENOVIA V5 VPM, ENOVIA VPM - note that in the case of ENOVIA V5 VPM or ENOVIA VPM, the source document can be the result of the extraction of a "structure exposed" assembly-,file-based systems, etc.), SEE provides a valuable solution for key business scenarios.
Before reading this guide, the user should be familiar with the basic Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore it is recommended that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 5 products.
To get the most of this guide, it is suggested that you start reading the step-by-step Getting Started tutorial. Once you have finished, you should move on to the User Tasks section, then to Customizing section, which explains how to set up the options and finally to the Methodology section.
To perform the scenarios, you will be using sample documents
contained in the online/seeug_C2/samples. For documents which exist
in the SmarTeam database. For more information about sample documents, see
Accessing Sample Documents in the Infrastructure User's Guide.
To learn more about the conventions used in this guide, see the Conventions section.