Nexa PLM Design Integration lets your diverse product teams perform PLM functions as a seamless part of the design and support applications they use daily such as SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD and many others. The result is much wider adoption of PLM that improves the management of every element of product information produced throughout the product lifecycle.

• In-depth application integration
• PLM within native CAD interface
• Hierarchy explorer to explode and explore product configurations
• Quick data query and extraction

Learn more about our Design Integration Product Modules:

Nexa Connectors:

• • SolidWorks Connector for Nexa
  • Inventor Connector for Nexa
  • AutoCAD Connector for Nexa
  • NX Connector for Nexa
  • Creo Connector for Nexa

Spreadsheets simply don’t cut it for managing complex bills of material (BOMs). Nexa PLM Configuration Management provides standard organization for parts with various part types and attributes and all information managed and accessible through the Hierarchy Explorer and BOM Editor. It maintains a more comprehensive, fully integrated — and useful — Bill of Information that consolidates and links every information item used to design, produce, and support your products. For added convenience, it also enables direction population of BOMs directly from CAD models and the exchange engineering BOMs with downstream ERP, MRP, and SCM systems

• Comprehensive release management
• Advanced bills of material management
• Centralized and synchronized enterprise product data

Learn more about our Configuration Management Product Modules:

• Nexa BOM Editor

Nexa PLM Process Management automates and accelerates repeatable, mistake-proof business processes such as design and change approvals — in fact, almost any business process requiring workflow. Nexa Process Management standardizes and automates product development and release processes across your company to save considerable amounts of time and cost off product development schedules and changes, while keeping efforts in check with regulatory requirements such as FDA and ISO.

• Process automation including document approvals and release
• Email notification
• Engineering change management
• Regulatory compliance

Learn more about our Process Management Product Modules:

• Nexa Workflow

Nexa PLM Product Collaboration offers solutions to facilitate design reviews and collaborative product team meetings, connecting and maximizing the creative input of your people, suppliers, and customers regardless of their location. Also, with the results of online sessions and document markups saved and linked to original files in Nexa, you capture those all-important lessons learned to jumpstart future projects.

• On-line collaboration sessions
• Advanced 3D visualization
• Meeting results captured and linked to file original in Nexa

The biggest gains to be achieved in next generation Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implementations will be seen by companies that adopt a Bill of Information (BOI) approach which enables the real-time management and reporting from the entire compilation of information at any point along a product’s lifecycle – from concept through retirement.

Product companies use the term Bill of Materials (BOM) to describe the components that once assembled, represent a finished product. However, the BOM does not describe how the idea became a product which generated revenue.

With Nexa, Essig PLM uses the tern Bill of Information.  Like our DNA, the Nexa BOI serves as a comprehensive “blue print” for all of the information about the product, its relationships, and dependencies including the Bill of Materials (BOM) definition.

The Nexa BOI captures the entire data set required for design, testing, manufacture, delivery, sale, and support of a product throughout its lifecycle. Having all of this information available allows very tailored and specific pieces of information to be presented to various users, groups, departments and suppliers for example.

The Nexa BOI will enhance your competitive edge by:

• Streamlining product data and processes
• Reducing development cycle times
• Improving the quality and reliability of the release to manufacturing and time to market

Companies that adopt a Bill of Information (BOI) approach with their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implementations will achieve the biggest gains. The BOI enables the real-time management and reporting from the entire collection of information at any point along a product’s lifecycle – from concept through retirement.

Essig PLM, Inc.’s white paper, The Comprehensive Bill of Information, provides insight into the fundamental concepts that make up a BOI, which serves as the “blueprint” that describes your finished product. To fully define your company’s intellectual property it is essential to capture, document and retain the BOI.

Nexa PLM Enterprise Integration exploits the full benefits of PLM, enabling the exchange of application-independent bills of material with your other critical enterprise applications such as MRP, ERP, and CRM systems. The fully integrated product environment that is facilitated by Nexa eliminates redundant pockets of information and re-keying errors between systems. Essig PLM has successfully delivered enterprise integration solutions to applications such as SAP®, Oracle® Manufacturing, SSA Baan™, J.D. Edwards OneWorld, and others, or can provide the tools or work with you to integrate Nexa with your own homegrown or legacy systems.

• Consolidated enterprise product data
• XML-based data exchange
• Web-based information portals
• Custom solutions