The lack of integration between desktop software such as Microsoft® Office applications and engineering applications such as CAD has a significant impact on achieving efficient product development. Statistics show that engineers spend a significant part of their time on creating documentation and search, instead of value-added development activities.

Technical staff should be able to access all corporate information that is relevant to the context of their design tasks. This may be product data, technical drawings and parts of external supplier catalogs.

The Combionic Gateway technology helps you to combine this structured data with daily communication and collaboration applications. For example, the ability to access data in SharePoint® directly out of CATIA® or AutoCAD® environments or vice versa from Microsoft® Office applications to PLM.

• Relevant technical drawing documents are displayed from SharePoint® Server
• Manufacturer data, such as information on components, can be requested directly out of the CAD environment