Vantage product data management (PDM) serves as a central knowledge repository for process and product history, and promotes integration and data exchange among all enterprise users who interact with the product—including project managers, engineers, sales persons, buyers, and quality assurance representatives.

Vantage offers a solution for manufacturers that manages the powerful information traditionally contained in engineering documents, plant floor routings, change orders, sales orders and quality documentation, within a single online solution that is easily shared across the enterprise.

Vantage offers a complete end-to-end solution to manage all aspects of a product’s lifecycle, as well as enabling enterprises to control the enormous amount of electronic documents that they produce. PDM supports collaboration throughout the value chain.

Bill of Materials
Vantage supports traditional BOM management with single-level part formats that recognizes the materials and components required to build end parts. In addition, Vantage introduces multi-level BOM management that incorporates not only single-level components and material requirements, but also internal and external routing steps for complete end assembly visibility, planning, scheduling, and costing. Vantage introduces visual engineering technology with indented tree structures and drag-and-drop BOM management. Use the engineering workbench to build a visual view of a new bill of materials, accessing similar structures and revision levels.

Routings
Detailed routings facilitate planning, scheduling and costing of products more efficiently. Everything needed to produce a product is managed in one central location. Managing changes to routings is simplified. Changes are automatically communicated to the plant floor execution system and operators have online visibility of the latest routing production notes as well as standards and resource requirements.

Engineering Change and Revision Control
Achieve control and consistency in your engineering change and revision process. Engineering Change and Revision Control is designed to enable engineering change management, multiple revision control of products, engineering workflow management, and offers detailed cost analysis of products during the engineering process.

Product Lifecycle Management
Vantage Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) serves as a central knowledge repository for process and product history, and promotes integration and data exchange among all enterprise users who interact with the product. Key features of the Vantage PLM application include full integration with more than 12 computer aided design (CAD) systems. Vantage PLM manages all documentation associated with a product throughout its entire product lifecycle. Additionally, the application offers sophisticated document management, critical for those organizations that need excellent audit tracking and control of all documents across the enterprise. Vantage PLM is powered by PROCAD PRO.FILE and uses SQL Server technology.

Product Costing
As a manufacturer, you consistently monitor product cost and analyze profitability as a way to pass on cost savings to customers while staying competitive. Vantage offers the flexibility and accuracy that manufacturers need to analyze their product cost on a customer-by-customer, part-by-part, and job-by-job basis.

Product Configuration
Product Configuration enables on-the-fly configuration of highly customizable and dimensional products via a straightforward question and answer evaluation. Product Configuration can be accessed from quote entry, order entry, and job entry. It is Web-enabled, and is also available to disconnected users employing Vantage mConnect.