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With the product design and manufacturing world’s recent shift to more remote collaboration, cloud-based CAD platforms are increasingly becoming a business essential. Manufacturers today are increasingly seeking to improve collaboration between their core engineering teams and an extended group of stakeholders within their organizations. These internal stakeholders include representatives across an array of functions – sourcing, operations, manufacturing, marketing, and sales. In order to share design files, engineers must find other ways to get feedback. This might include hand-walking a file over to a desk, taking input, and later incorporating feedback. Alternatively, a designer might send an email with detailed notes and a screengrab image. In both cases, the manual sharing of designs and compilation of feedback in an ad-hoc manner can result in misunderstandings and delays. Faced with the challenge of empowering these extended teams, manufacturing companies are now seeking improved digital and cloud-based product development solutions. Cloud-based CAD and Data Management solutions are no longer a nice-to-have technology, but a must-have technology. In the product development process, high levels of collaboration and communication are essential. Unfortunately, this process has often been undermined for organizations by the non-collaborative nature of their on-premise systems. As a result, many organizations have simply come to accept the delays and mistakes that come from inefficient communication and collaboration. To address these challenges, many product development teams are reassessing their current processes and moving towards solutions that will improve efficiency, agility, and accuracy. They are seeking to leverage cloud-based technologies to seamlessly manage, access, and share important data. With the cloud-based IronCAD SYNERGY platform, design documents can be instantly shared safely and securely. The single source of truth enabled by cloud architecture ensures that all parties to a design document are always working on the latest version. The risk of human error is significantly decreased as all CAD users can now see, access, and work off of the latest design document. Everyone is instantly aligned regardless of their location. For more information on how your product development team can take full advantage of asynchronous cloud-based collaboration, click here. View the full article

A Powerful New Collaboration Platform, Improving Design and Data Management for Users (Atlanta, GA) July 13th, 2021 –IronCAD today introduces SYNERGY Platform, a powerful new cloud-based collaboration platform from the leader in design productivity of 3D CAD solutions. The IronCAD SYNERGY Platform creates a newfound synergy between design and sales teams to store, configure, share, manage, and view design data with team members and external clients, all in one place. The SYNERGY Platform enables organizations to stay competitive and seek new levels of collaboration and agility. When it comes to collaboration and data management, the IronCAD SYNERGY Platform was made to improve the way teams work, design, and collaborate. It supports remote working and collaboration environments efficiently. With the SYNERGY Platform, users have access to SYNERGY Vault, a secure cloud-based data vault. Users are able to manage, version, release, and view IronCAD files, as well as manage other file types all within a secure cloud-based vault. Each company account of the Synergy Platform will have up to 10GB of free data storage space per company. Additionally, sales teams, customers, and suppliers may configure products and communicate design concepts and changes on the cloud with the SYNERGY Configurator. Users can share configurations with the design team to make edits and to seamlessly convert data to production designs with IronCAD products to speed up the design-to-order process. “Introducing Synergy Platform affirms IronCAD’s commitment to our customers in improving their sales, design process, and collaboration experience in remote working environments,” stated Dr. Tao-Yan Han, President of IronCAD. “Synergy Platform was designed to give customers an easy-to-use platform that can expand as the needs of our customers grow.” he continued. IronCAD’s new powerful cloud-based collaboration platform enables organizations to streamline workflows and extend their sales-design-manufacturing ecosystem from the desktop to the cloud with seamless connection to the SYNERGY platform. About IronCAD Based in Atlanta, Ga., IronCAD is a leading provider of 3D design productivity solutions that deliver the highest levels of customer satisfaction and productivity. Individual components of this solution can be used standalone, complementary within an existing design environment, or can be used together to collaborate effectively throughout the enterprise to extend productivity. IronCAD’s flagship product IRONCAD has won many industry awards for its innovative technology and leads the industry in its ease of use and design productivity. Thousands of customers worldwide use IronCAD to support their success. For more information about IronCAD, visit https://www.ironcad.com/.