CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
14 September 2004
Product News
LMS introduces Rev 5 of LMS Tec.Manager for Engineering Data Management
LMS International introduced Rev 5 of LMS Tec.Manager, its web-based and ASAM-ODS compatible solution for efficient data organization, retrieval and reporting. LMS Tec.Manager enables engineering departments to leverage the information value of large volumes of data that represent a huge investment in time and cost. New data organization and navigation capabilities further extend its capabilities to handle the data from a wide range of different engineering software tools working with a multitude of data formats. LMS Tec.Manager Rev 5 removes these data format barriers and enables users to search and access data from their standard browser. It is no longer required to know where the data are physically stored, nor the engineering applications that actually generated the data. By working with LMS Tec.Manager, information can be easily shared between different departments, customers and other external partners.
With the extended Web Navigator of LMS Tec.Manager Rev 5, development teams are able to share and leverage engineering data, by browsing through specific directories and opening selected data containers. Any file or database can be opened from within the browser and exhibited in a variety of graphical displays, each in its own native format. All integrated data drivers eliminate the need to license, install and understand all of the engineering applications that generated the data originally. In addition, the web navigator is capable of generating reports as well as downloading data for further use. Everything works fast since only the data to be displayed is copied and transferred over the network, while all original data remains at their initial locations.
The improved Application Server within LMS Tec.Manager Rev 5 represents a collaborative web-based solution that packages a complete data management system, enabling larger businesses to effectively share and leverage engineering data across the entire enterprise. In addition to all Web Navigator capabilities, it offers effective data management, efficient data search and secure data access capabilities. The LMS Tec.Manager Application Server indexes the data available in user-defined network sections, and builds a corresponding catalogue, which links individual files or groups of files with dedicated keywords and context-specific attributes. After specifying a few intuitive search criteria, the advanced queries embedded in LMS Tec.Manager are able to find and return a link to even the smallest piece of data buried among hundreds of thousands of files. In a window that looks similar to Google or Alta Vista, all search results can be viewed immediately in their respective native formats. LMS Tec.Manager even allows the data content of different file types to be displayed in one single plot or graph.
LMS Tec.Manager Rev 5 further extends its user-specific authentication and file access mechanisms, by offering check-in/check out capability. This feature eliminates potential data loss, resulting from multiple users updating the same data at the same time. In addition, this data management solution is built on the basis of one single application server, which reduces installation, administration and maintenance costs significantly. An advantage that specifically concerns LMS Test.Lab is the capability to access LMS Tec.Manager directly from within LMS Test.Lab. This enables LMS Test.Lab users to perform efficient data search operations on LMS Test.Lab data and other data, and use the traced data for further processing in LMS Test.Lab. The LMS Tec.Manager integration in LMS Test.Lab also allows these users to submit newly generated LMS Test.Lab data in LMS Tec.Manager, both on a manual or automatic basis. Optionally, the integrated LMS Tec.Manager solution can be equipped to support ASAM-ODS database technology, or provide different levels of LMS CADA-X APM (Advanced Project Management) compatibility.
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