The Challenges of Modern Engineering Systems

Increasingly complex tasks, less and less time, and therefore a growing need for collaboration: the traditional toolchain is no longer sufficient for parallel and simultaneous work.

The international and multidisciplinary division of work requires scalable system architectures that support every installation variant—from single-user workstations to cloud computing. These architectures must support online collaboration in the same database and the offline integration of suppliers and customers.

Flexibility: different disciplines, documents, working methods, data models, languages, standards, and other requirements demand maximum adaptability.

Fantasy and Reality: Significantly Reducing Time Pressure!

How remarkable would it be to handle these many tasks much faster? Without error-prone data transfers and inquiries? With consistent collaboration among all participating disciplines despite global distribution, different time zones, skills, languages, and engineering cultures? With a modern platform concept and access to up-to-date data at all times? It may sound like a fantasy—but it is already a reality with Engineering Base!

Collaborative by Nature

The principle of parallel and simultaneous work by all essential disciplines in the same versatile data model puts an end to the time-consuming and obsolete “transfer” of information. Once created, all data can be used directly by every stakeholder, regardless of location, time zone, or language. In this way, the digital representation of the design object becomes the permanently up-to-date foundation for agile teamwork.

Changing Consistently

In Engineering Base, every change is reflected in every representation of the modified object—without waiting times or time-consuming synchronization. This naturally includes an advanced change-management process. The versatile model therefore always ensures the highest consistency across the complete documentation and enables efficient collaboration.

Open to Integration

In addition to enabling the parallelization of all major engineering disciplines, the Engineering Base collaborative platform is open to bidirectional connections with other systems, such as simulation and design tools, 3D planning, PLM, and ERP. Numerous integrations are already in productive use. No other system offers this degree of versatility!

Modern System Architecture

Engineering Base offers maximum scalability—from notebooks or single-user workstations to solutions for SMBs and remotely accessible server farms with hundreds of users across a global network.
Engineering Base can be used to design machines, plants, and mobile systems at any scale, including in the cloud. By using Data as a Service, Engineering Base is open both to the direct integration of data from complementary systems and to the use of combined engineering data in mobile applications or complex information portals.