Ken Wong wrote a first review of Vuuch for Inventor. I really enjoyed his explanation of Vuuch as well the video that he put together. He pointed out the solution that is “Facebook for Files” doesn’t have a Facebook fan page, so I guess I know what is on my agenda for today.
I look forward to following up with Ken as both the Vuuch platform and the Inventor add-in evolve. For anyone interested you can find a public Vuuch documentation page here. You might being asking yourself “Public Page”? Well although most items in Vuuch are private to your team it is possible to make information public. For instance maybe you want to ask an Engineering question or maybe you have a question about how to do something in your CAD system? Or maybe you want to create a public page for responses to a problem. The Vuuch documentation page provides access to not only the file but also any public questions people have about the file.
There are many use cases for Vuuch. In the demo Ken put together you can see how Vuuch replaces that Excel file your team is using to track part design issues. Another use case we have seen is when a drawing is being checked for release and you want to track all the items that need to be fixed. Vuuch the drawing file and create a Vuuch activity for each issue that is found. As each issue is correct by the team it can be either archived or forward it on to another team member to validate the change.
I think this is a good example how to redefine collaboration for PLM. The most important things are -online access, unified collaboration, contextual access. I explain it morein my blog- http://plmtwine.com/2010/05/28/how-to-redefine-collaboration-in-plm/. Oleg.