In Their Own Words: Working with Large Assemblies in Cloud Collaboration

Data management and collaboration issues are part of DE’s coverage of the digital thread that connects design, manufacturing, and the rest of the enterprise.

Today, many PLM vendors are incorporating social media-inspired features to make collaboration look and feel like chatting with a colleague on Facebook or publishing a Tweet. For this reason, building a cloud-hosted infrastructure accessible from browsers and thin clients is now more important than before. How does this affect assembly loading and viewing, one of the bottlenecks in performance and collaboration?

Here’s Vertext’s take on the problem and the solution it offers, in their own words.