What is VariPDM Basic?​

• VariPDM Basic is an out-of-the-box and easy-to-use PDM (Product Data Management) system with product configurator, which implementation and basic setup can be done with data in few days
• Basic system is designed to handle basic PDM functionality from engineering to production
• VariPDM Basic is flexible, web user interface settings, product modeling and access rights are managed with data. Data model changes can be done online with admin-tool
• VariPDM Basic can be used inside and out-side company because flexible user access mechanism
• Personalization is managed by user or key-user
• VariPDM Basic has integration to MS office and most CADs and systems like ERP using API​
• Cloud-installation to AWS which capacity can be increased if needed​
• VariPDM Basic is scalable and extendable to VariPDM Enterprise

Typical Business Challenges that Companies can solve with VariPDM Basic:

• Company would like to benefit from product model and PDM/PLM that can be co-operative with Sales and Production as well with Maintenance
• Company is having old legacy PDM/PLM system that requires replacement
• Company don't yet have any PDM/PLM system or product data is scattered and siloed
• External organizations like partners and suppliers don't have proper access to product data due to poor current access management
• Current PDM/PLM system doesn't support product configuration capabilities
• Current PDM/PLM is suitable for CAD users only and need to expand the usage for whole company
• Current PDM/PLM system provider is the only one able to manage and update or change the system or data model
• Need to reduce external consultancy costs of PDM/PLM solution
• Current PDM/PLM system is too expensive
• Current PDM/PLM system is too slow with poor performance
• Product data is located only in ERP without any change management and/or version control
• Product data is described only as documents without any relationship to items and/or materials
• Lack of proper item variant management with current PDM/PLM system
• Lack of proper multilingual document management
• Lack of necessary integration possibilities and open APIs

See the solution in action

VariPDM Basic main features:

• Extensive Product configuration capability with most advanced rule options with items and structures
• Dynamic Data modeling which allows changes at any time for company specific classifications, attributes, etc.
• Item and product structure management
• Document management related to products and items
• Advanced Access management (role based, user group based, user based with options like visibility/change/edit/create)
• Editable Approval processes for items and documents
• Version and revision control
• Multilingual support for documents
• User and User Group management
• Powerful and easy to use search capabilities
• Intuitive and changeable Web User Interface that can be modified with data
• User based personalization options for Views, Searches, Bookmarks, Recent objects
• Subscription based email notifications for any changes
• Export and import with Excel
• Multilevel Bill of Material (BOM) with related documents
• Integration options to MS Office and CADs like SolidWorks, Creo, Inventor, AutoCad Mechanical and CATIA
• REST API capability for any integrations like towards ERP and CRM

VariPDM Basic is extendable to VariSuite

• VariSales 
  • (Configure-Price-Quote) sales-configurator and quote tool to improve offering process and CRM integration and to automate offer-delivery process
• VariTrace
  • To manage installed base data to support service organization nees to follow individual products during it’s lifecycle in use and to track product changes (service part changes, configuration changes...)

Why should you choose VariPDM Basic?

• Engineers can create and manage product model already during design phase
• VariPDM is out-of-the-box PDM with standard functionality and integrations
• Out-of-the-box includes extreme configurator capabilities where product model is modeled with data and configured with easy-to-use user interfaces
• VariPDM Basic support combined product and production configuration development
• Implementation is basically adding users (with roles) and change settings like item id and document id counters with data
• User interfaces are easy-to-use, changeable and configurator interface adopted to product rules
• Design tool integrations allows users to search, create and edit data from design tools
• Companies can add attributes, classifications and change data model themselves
• Users and key-users can change user searches, views and settings
• Access rights are extensive and allows sharing and access data to any user
• API is included
• VariPDM Basic can be extended to VariPDM Enterprise and full VariSuite
• VariPDM is cost-effective and offers low-cost-of-ownership (LCO) because company can manage their changes without continuous external consultancy