PDXpert PLM 2010 Edition Updates Multiple BOMs, Searches Design Files

By DE Editors

Active Sensing, Inc. (ASI) has released its PDXpert PLM 2010 Edition product lifecycle management software, which now offers a bill of materials markup wizard, file content indexing, and other productivity enhancements.

PDXpert PLM 2010 Edition’s markup wizard is a tool for modifying multiple bills of materials (BOMs) in one workflow. It can automatically add, replace, and remove components on assemblies, and will create new BOM revisions as needed to support these changes. The markup wizard discovers and displays all component “where used” instances to ensure that each affected bill of materials is correctly updated as intended.

The new 2010 edition of PDXpert PLM software also introduces file content searches. PDXpert PLM 2010 Edition uses Microsoft Windows Search 4.0 components to index common file formats (text, HTML, RTF, even ZIP), and search results include files with matching content. Plug-ins for other file formats, such as Adobe PDF and Office 2007, as well as for more specialized engineering file formats for CAD files, can be installed as needed.

PDXpert PLM 2010 Edition can convert one document or part type into another, and has user-defined rules that prevent assigning duplicate part or document numbers. System WAN performance has improved with more local caching. Other improvements include 64-bit SQL Server and Windows support, and PDXpert has been tested with the upcoming releases of Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.

For more information, visit Active Sensing, Inc.