Sovelia AI Assistant provides contextual, customer-specific guidance directly in Sovelia Core, helping users work more efficiently in their own PLM environment.

Imagine your design team spends hours designing a product that fulfills the customers' needs, only to find that the production floor struggles to interpret the design intent. How do you ensure that the design information is moved to the production floor accurately and efficiently without errors?

CPQ stands for Configure, Price, Quote. It’s a solution that helps companies configure products, calculate accurate pricing, and generate quotes quickly, easily, and correctly.

In modern manufacturing, data has become both a powerful asset and a persistent challenge. Data challenges can impact productivity, efficiency, collaboration and overall product success. The amount of data is large and keeps growing, so it is crucial to manage it effectively.

Discover how CAD and PLM streamline design, boost efficiency, and optimize workflows for manufacturing and engineering companies.

Learn what PLM implementation involves, why it matters, and how to do it right. Discover benefits, challenges to avoid, and 8 proven best practices for success.

Discover the key differences between PLM and ERP, how they work together, and why integrating both is essential for efficient business operations.

As markets grow more complex and customer expectations rise, companies must streamline their sales processes to remain efficient and responsive to customer needs. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is by using CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) software.

Discover what a Bill of Materials (BOM) is, its types, key components, benefits, and best practices to streamline manufacturing and inventory management.

In this article, we’ll explore what PDM is, why it matters, and how it benefits businesses, along with its key capabilities and its relationship with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).

Discover the key differences between PDM & PLM, their benefits, and which solution best suits your business needs. Learn how Sovelia PLM can streamline operations

Efficient product lifecycle management (PLM) software can revolutionize the way your company handles product development, from conception to retirement. In this article, we'll explore the benefits of PLM, highlighting how it enhances efficiency, drives growth, and fosters collaboration across departments.

You have realized that a PLM system can help you streamline your product lifecycle management and identified Sovelia Core as a potential system. But what happens next? How do you actually implement this and ensure your team successfully adopts it? In this article, we will discuss the process of piloting and taking Sovelia Core into use in your company.

Discover best practices for BOM management, streamline production, reduce costs, and improve efficiency with Sovelia Core. Learn how to optimize your workflow.

PLM can provide significant benefits to mid-sized Engineer-to-Order (ETO) and Configure-to-Order (CTO) companies by streamlining processes, enhancing information quality, promoting collaboration, and improving change management.

This article explores Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), a strategic approach to managing a product’s lifecycle from inception to disposal. You will learn about PLM software, its uses, and its main goals. We will discuss why PLM is important, what it means in business, and why companies use it.

Did you know that Sovelia Core allows you to manage all your documents, not just the technical ones? You can manage photos, offer documentation, orders, specifications, agreements — all in the same system. You don't need a separate document management solution; Sovelia Core has everything you need built right in!

When it comes to managing data, creating secondary formats and generating Bills of Materials (BOM), Autodesk Vault provides a solid foundation. However, for those who need higher quality, reliability, and flexibility, adding Sovelia Vault to your Autodesk Vault setup offers the best results. Learn more in this feature comparison.

Often, over half of designers' working time is spent on repetitive manual tasks. Design processes become more efficient by reducing or eliminating these time-consuming tasks, freeing up time for more essential work. Read more about what design automation is and what benefits it brings to the company.

Are repeated manual tasks taking up a lot of your product design time? Often, over half of designers' time is spent on repetitive tasks that add little value to the final product. Instead of struggling with tight project schedules or hiring more personnel, consider how design automation can streamline your processes.

If you are an Autodesk Vault user in the mechanical engineering and manufacturing industry, you are likely familiar with the challenges of managing design data. While Vault provides a solid foundation for storing and organizing design data, it falls short in some critical areas. You might have noticed this if you ever wanted to automate workflows or configure company-specific rules and processes in Vault. Let’s dive into these challenges and possible solutions. 

The efficiency of your AutoCAD workflows is key to delivering projects on time and within budget. When workflows are inefficient, they can cause delays, increase costs and lower the quality of your work.

Are you using Autodesk Inventor but wish to improve your productivity even more? Do you find yourself manually generating PDF files or creating drawings one by one? If so, you’re not alone. Many users face similar challenges when working with Autodesk Inventor, but there are solutions available to streamline your workflow and boost productivity. Read these eight tips to help you work smarter in Autodesk Inventor.

Learn how to improve your engineering and design projects by overcoming CAD workflow challenges, increasing efficiency and driving innovation.

Manufacturing companies today are constantly seeking ways to increase efficiency and improve processes in their operations. One way to achieve success is by integrating two important systems: Product Data Management (PDM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). By connecting these systems, companies can achieve a range of benefits that can make a significant difference in both business processes and outcomes.

Learn how Sovelia AutoCAD streamlines your CAD design workflows by automating tasks, reducing errors, and enhancing efficiency.

If you're engaged in tubing and piping design with Autodesk Inventor, you probably know about the difficulties associated with long configuration times and complex workflows. These obstacles can lead to inefficiencies and frustrations while navigating the software. At Symetri, we've encountered these issues firsthand and are excited to introduce a solution that not only addresses these pain points but also streamlines your tube and pipe design workflow effortlessly.

What is the difference between Autodesk Vault and Sovelia Vault? Read this blogpost to find out how Sovelia Vault complements Autodesk Vault and adds automation, customization and flexibility.

Sovelia Vault is designed as an automation platform for Autodesk Vault. It gives you more flexibility, control, and ways to customize things. Here are 5 tips on how you can work smarter with Autodesk Vault if you add Sovelia Vault in your toolbox.

This blog post is tackling the most common barriers with Vault - ERP integration projects, like duplicate files, properties spread around, unresolved models, uncategorized files, poor planning and lack of Vault knowledge, and describes some examples how you can prepare for success using the right tools, expertise and knowledge

Watermarking can signify whether the document is a preliminary version, not ready for production or just a document for pre-review of a design. A watermark stamp is hard to miss and will most likely eliminate the risk that production is done from non-released documents. 

Before we at Symetri can begin to offer a solution, it is our responsibility to always collaborate and try to find the best option for a specific company and their business goals, and always communicate what challenges a solution we recommend will solve.

Sovelia Product Manager Tim Ray writes about different ways Manufacturing companies can produce custom Bill of Materials (BOMs) for the designs they create. This blog is based on Tim's discussion with a customer and how the company produces custom Bill of Materials (BOMs) for the designs they create.

Configure your company standards into Sovelia Routing and start designing. The simplicity of Sovelia Routing is what users appreciate the most,  fulfilling companies requirements and working seamlessly within Inventor. 

Are you an engineering, design or drawing office manager concerned producing drawings that the rest of the organisation uses - to make, order and/or assemble parts, securing quality and cost efficiency at the same time?

Whilst the role of PLM is about information, how it is produced and handled, disseminated and shared, its goals have an impact on the whole business of any company engaged in its practices. What is most important when considering and looking at a PLM system?

Autodesk Vault can be customised to automatically trigger and take care of some mundane tasks for you. The only problem is, you have to be a coder to put these in place and, once in place, further code change may be needed when your processes need to change. Sovelia Vault offers a configurable add in to Autodesk Vault that any competent administrator can adjust and use.

By monitoring and recording Sovelia Core PLM system company can build up a set of data that can be used for many different purposes, but primarily to budget effectively and improve performance.

When you look at all PLM systems one of the fundamental issues they face is getting the correct, good quality data into the PLM system in the first place. “Crap in, Crap out” is a phrase that has been used to describe this problem whenever talking about transferring information from one system to another. How do you guarantee the correct information is transferred from your design environment to PLM?

Autodesk Vault can produce PDF files from drawings, Inventor Drawings and AutoCAD drawings. Sovelia Vault can produce PDF files too, but what's the difference and where lies the benefits of adding Sovelia Vault?

Installed base is the Sovelia Core template that takes a standard Bill of materials and makes it unique for every product that is delivered. You can categorize according to the service requirements, including possible spare parts or maintenance services.

From identifying long lead items early on in the project to assembly documentation, Sovelia Core can help fulfill all of your needs. The ability to access the right information, at the right time in the process by the right person should be fundamental to the solution we provide or that our customers expect.

Sales configuration offers the logic and questions to generate a specific bill of materials or collection of parts. There is no other way of generating this solution.

The role of the Sovelia Core Extranet is two fold; to collaborate both with members of the organisation and the members of the supply chain outside of the company firewall. It provides a safe and robust way to collaborate and distribute information with external parties.

The way the product gets designed isn't necessarily the way to assemble the product. The "as designed" Engineering Bill of Materials (BOM) needs to be reordered so that the product can be effectively assembled. Sovelia Core includes tools to reorder the Engineering BOM to a view that better suits production.

Engineering Change Order, Engineering Change Request and Implementation Notes. Typically, our customers implement Engineering Change Order first. Then Change Request to formalise the gathering of ideas on how to change a product and finally documenting the change.

Collaboration is core and at the heart of everything that Sovelia Core PLM system stands for. It enables sharing of the design, product information, and knowledge transfer, involving all elements of the business and wider partners into the design process.