Maximize product collaboration: The complete solution for product data sharing

Key points:

• ShareAspace is a PLM collaboration hub that supports cross-organizational and engineering domain collaboration. It is secure and configurable.
• It provides comprehensive document and part management features, such as cross-domain BOMs, multiple identifiers, multiple suppliers, and versioning.
• ShareAspace is simple to use, compatible with current systems, and based on the ISO, STEP, and PLCS data management standards.
• It provides a complete audit trail and offers data management throughout the entire product lifecycle.

Streamlining product data sharing and PLM collaboration with ShareAspace

In today’s fast-paced globalised economy, companies must collaborate more efficiently together to bring products faster to market and keep their competitive edge. This entails exchanging data and information among various partners, subcontractors, and manufacturers. But how can businesses ensure that their critical product data is safe, accessible, and compatible with multiple systems? The answer lies in ShareAspace – a PLM collaboration hub that provides a configurable and standards-based platform for secure product data sharing.

Here are the top benefits of ShareAspace:

1. Security and IP protection
   ShareAspace provides secure collaboration and data sharing while protecting your company’s intellectual property and respecting export controls. The in-house systems are not exposed outside the firewall, which enhances trust among partners.
   
2. Change management
   ShareAspace allows companies to apply different levels of change management to their projects, from a simple informal approach to a comprehensive change management process. The data trail is accessible at any time, providing a full audit trail.
   
3. Compatibility with existing systems
   ShareAspace is vendor-neutral and compatible with existing systems such as PDM, PLM, ERP, MRO or ILS. Data can be consolidated and mapped into ShareAspace from any vendor system, making it available to authorized external partners and facilitating change and business agility.
   
4. Ease of use
   ShareAspace is easy to access and use without any coding. End users can access their data through their favourite editing software, through the web interface or using a mobile device.
   
5. Standards-based
   ShareAspace is based on ISO, STEP, and PLCS standards for data management and open data extraction. The internal database schema is based on ISO standards and manages all aspects of product information, ensuring data is open and can be extracted without information loss.
   
6. Scalability
   ShareAspace has built-in support for both horizontal and vertical scaling, allowing companies to replicate data on multiple nodes for load balancing or backup.
   
7. Master data management
   ShareAspace keeps track of which originating system loads or updates data into ShareAspace and ensures that information owned by an originating system is not updated unless approved by the master system.
   
8. Document and part management
   ShareAspace provides robust document and part management capabilities, including versioning, multiple identifiers, multiple suppliers or manufacturing of parts, and cross-domain BOMs.
   
9. Through-life product repository
   ShareAspace data and file store is designed to capture and manage through-life product information, managing the relationships between different lifecycle events and their effectivity, providing users access to the past, present, and predicted through-life breakdown of the product.

Empowering people and businesses with game-changing product data collaboration

At Eurostep, we are passionate about revolutionizing product data collaboration to empower businesses and drive their success. Our mission is to transform the way enterprises collaborate across the entire product and systems lifecycle. With our exceptional ShareAspace solutions, we enable seamless and secure product data sharing that fosters innovation and accelerates time-to-market.

As pioneers in the field, we actively contribute to the development of product lifecycle data standards. Through our ShareAspace platform, we bring these standards to life in a pragmatic and user-friendly manner. We believe that collaboration should be effortless, and our solutions reflect this commitment, making it easy for businesses to share and utilize product data effectively.

At Eurostep, we don’t settle for the status quo. We challenge existing practices, championing new ways of working that push the boundaries of collaboration. Our comprehensive approach ensures that we take complete ownership of our solutions, supporting our customers every step of the way – from training and implementation to ongoing support and maintenance.

With a global presence and subsidiaries in multiple countries, we serve prestigious blue-chip customers across diverse industries, including automotive, aerospace, defence, energy, high tech, building & construction, and process industries. Our extensive industry experience and expertise make us the trusted partner for businesses seeking to enhance collaboration and unlock the full potential of their product data.

Eurostep is dedicated to delivering exceptional product data collaboration solutions that empower businesses to thrive in a rapidly evolving marketplace.

So, why ShareAspace?

ShareAspace is the ideal solution for companies looking to securely share product data with multiple partners and manufacturers. With its ease of use, compatibility with existing systems, and standards-based approach, ShareAspace provides a configurable collaboration tool for PLM that supports secure collaboration across enterprises and engineering domains, manages the entire product lifecycle, and is easy to implement and deploy. Contact us today to learn more about how ShareAspace can benefit your company.

Executive Summary:

ShareAspace by Eurostep is a game-changing solution for businesses that share product data with numerous subcontractors and manufacturers. Based on PLCS and STEP standards, this PLM collaboration hub provides a number of advantages, such as security, change management, interoperability, ease of use, standards-based architecture, scalability, and more. ShareAspace gives businesses the power to manage their intellectual property and adhere to export restrictions while still enabling a configurable PLM collaboration tool that supports secure collaboration across enterprises and engineering domains. ShareAspace is the smart choice for businesses looking for a vendor-neutral, interoperable PLM collaboration solution that is simple to deploy and supports the entire product lifecycle.