Welcome to the ENOVIA V5 VPM CES Engineering Component Reuse User Guide.
This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar
with the product.
This overview provides the following information:
CES in a Nutshell

The need to control operational efficiencies and improve
collaboration across multi-tier organizations has made supply chain
management one of the greatest achievements of the 20th Century, and has
improved the way that businesses work. ENOVIA V5 VPM's Collaborative Enterprise
Sourcing functionality allows you to increase productivity and lower
costs by giving you the tools to achieve faster time to market, and by
giving your organization an unobstructed view of your supply chain
operations. This visibility allows companies to plan and react to
changes by opening the door to greater information accessibility such as
inventory, orders, shipments, and invoices. This improved visibility to your
company's internal supply chain operations will enhance both internal
communication as well as communication with customers and suppliers.
Improved supply chain collaboration breaks down the barriers that often
exist between organizations by enhancing internal forecasting
activities, and improving their ability to successfully monitor and
manage their operational systems. Such improvements are often reflected
in the decision making process by giving companies the edge they need to
rapidly react to changing business dynamics. ENOVIA V5
VPM's CES Engineering Catalog Navigator and CES Engineering
Component Reuse play an important role in supply
chain management by giving organizations the necessary tools to navigate
through part inventory, pricing, supplier information, and part
availability. By combining CES with CATIA, designers and engineers can search their company's
specialized CES database for existing parts. Using this internal
part information, manufacturer information, supplier information,
along with pricing, and visual and geometric comparison, designers
and engineers can evaluate the existing parts and decide which part
best suits their purpose, instead of creating the part from scratch.
The acceptable part can then be instantiated into the current
product. Such exposure helps the user to make informed
decisions and to take advantage of price breaks and existing inventory,
which ultimately cuts cost and increases productivity.
Before Reading this Guide
You may also want to read
the following related product guides, for which the appropriate
license is required:
-
CES Engineering Catalog Navigator
-
CES Enterprise Catalog Administration
-
Infrastructure User's Guide (CATIA documentation)
-
Part Design User's Guide Version 5 (CATIA
documentation)
-
Product Structure User's Guide Version 5
(CATIA documentation)
This book is intended for the user who needs to
become quickly familiar with the CES Version 5
workbench. The user should be familiar with basic CATIA
Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard and view
toolbars.
Getting the Most Out of this Guide
To
get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading
and performing the step-by-step Getting Started scenarios. These
scenarios will show you how to log in to CES, how to log in to
ENOVIA V5 VPM, and orient you on the layout of CES.
Once you have finished,
you should move on to the
User Tasks section, which deals with handling all the product
functions.
Navigating in the Split
View mode is recommended. This mode offers a framed layout allowing
direct access from the table of contents to the information.
Conventions Used in this Guide
To learn more about the conventions used in this guide, refer to
the Conventions section. |