The Vuuch Voice

Joe Barkai of IDC presented “Insights Predictions 2010: Manufacturing Product Lifecycle Management” today.  Although we did not rate a slide Vuuch did rate a mention.  One angle discussed was the impact social media will have on PLM and product development as a whole and within this Vuuch was mentioned as having an interesting angle/approach.  What seems compelling from where I sit is Vuuch was mentioned in line with PTC Product Point and Team Center.  The WEB cast replay can be found here http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=182280&s=1&k=15896A60283FDED8D9FFB56F87D17D17 for those that did not have the chance to catch it live.

We will release a new version shortly that implements some exciting new functionality.  Think Facebook for parts!  Say you are working on a design of a part that involves other people and you want a quick way to track all the issues, tasks, discussions and notes in a simple way that everyone can access and stay aware of what is going on (Lets also say you are frustrated doing this with excel files that seem to always be out of date and piles and piles of email).  Well just right click on the file and say create WEB page and you are DONE.  If you would like to check out what this looks like take a look at this page http://www.vuuch.me/collaboration/fileRepNW4/discussions/251.  The Vuuch enabled part now has a page that represents everything that is going on with the part and all the people involved (If you have compliance or design history requirements then you will love this).  Anything added to this page shows up within the part file (In the example above the part is a SolidWorks file and therefore everything seen on this page is synced withSolidWorks).  One thing to note – you can do this WITHOUT checking the file in and out of some vault.  So leave the file where it is right for you and connect and communicate in a flexible and socialable manner.