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  • Innovative Product Lifecycle Management Software Solutions

    Innovative Product Lifecycle Management Software Solutions

    Product lifecycle management (PLM) refers to the entire lifecycle of a product: from the moment when the initial idea is conceived, through to its launch onto the market.

    The way you manage data is a crucial part of this process. A quality PDM system enables you to track and manage changes to data with much greater ease. PDM software should also enable you to increase part re-usage as much as possible.

    When looking for software to improve your data management, it’s likely you’re after a solution which covers all types of data, from CAD drawings and documents to BOMs. You want everything in one place, easy to manage and share with colleagues and stakeholders.

    Our product lifecycle management software speeds up the entire process, while giving you greater control over your data

    DDM CAD can reduce the time it takes to develop products and bring them to market much quicker.

    Our software is constantly evolving with a range of solutions to meet the changing needs of your business.

    Experienced experts in PLM solutions, we can provide you with everything you need to boost efficiency and productivity, with our developers offering support, advice and guidance for our software whenever you need it.

    If you’re struggling with your current product data management, why not discover more about trading-up your current solution to DDM CAD?


  • Improve Your Product Lifecycle Management Using SolidWorks

    Improve Your Product Lifecycle Management Using SolidWorks

    Want to enjoy better control and management of your product data? Do you use SolidWorks, Solid Edge or Inventor to produce your designs?

    Whether you’re in the development stage or in the final months of bringing your products to market, quality product data management can make all the difference.

    Companies all over the world have discovered the many benefits our PDM system can bring to their product lifecycle management. Current customers have praised it for ‘driving operational efficiency’ and for helping data management ‘become second nature’.

    Get your products to market quicker in 2020.

    DDM CAD blends seamlessly with many leading CAD software packages, including SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Inventor, and Creo.

    Whether you’re looking to reduce engineering costs, reduce waste and increase part re-use, or generally improve your design productivity, our software is designed to improve all aspects of the product life cycle. It can also help you easily achieve compliance for ISO or FDA.

    We provide exceptional customer support for all our clients, with our team dedicated to helping you make the most of our software.

    Our current clients include Hornby, DCA, SPI Lasers, Integra, Squire, Spectrum Brands, and Oxford Product Design.

    If you’re looking to improve your PDM for SolidWorks, why not discover more about DDM CAD today?


  • Improve Your Product Data Management For SolidWorks

    Improve Your Product Data Management For SolidWorks

    Do you use SolidWorks for your product development and want to improve the way you manage data?

    Many of the world’s best products start their existence in SolidWorks, and it’s one of the most popular CAD software packages in the world. Although it is fantastic for the development of all types of complex products, you might find managing the amount of data you produce a tricky task using the in-built product data management system.

    Poor product development often leads to miscommunication between team members and confusion over changes to a design, along with multiple BOMs resulting in products not built as designed or ordered.

    Speed up your product design with DDM CAD.

    Changing perceptions of PDM and PLM, DDM offers innovative software that will transform the way you work and communicate ideas. Our multi-CAD solution takes care of all aspects of the product life cycle, including revision control of parts, models, drawings and office documents.

    Enabling you to manage all your CAD, project and office data, BOMs and downstream to ERP, DDM CAD will seamlessly integrate with SolidWorks to transform your product lifecycle management. There are no additional costs and the software is easy to integrate and extremely user-friendly.

    Discover more reasons to choose DDM CAD to improve your PDM for SolidWorks.


  • Inventor

    Inventor

    In today’s fast-paced world of innovation, effective document control is critical to product development success. Enter Design Data Manager (DDM), your dependable partner in supplying top-tier inventor software solutions geared to your organisation’s specific requirements.

    Streamlined Workflow Management

    Our cutting-edge software enables your team to easily organise and track documents throughout the product lifecycle. Bid farewell to time-consuming manual methods and hello to a streamlined digital workflow that offers version control, revision history, and secure access.

    Collaboration at its Finest

    With ease, facilitate cross-functional collaboration. Our inventor software solutions give a centralised platform for teams to communicate in real-time, allowing for efficient feedback loops and ensuring everyone is working on the most up-to-date version of a document.

    Unparalleled Security and Compliance

    You can relax knowing that your important information is secure. Our software has strong security features such as role-based access control and encryption, which ensures compliance with industry rules and protects your intellectual property.

    Customisation for Your Unique Needs

    We recognise that each organisation has its own set of needs. Because of this, our software is highly adaptable, allowing you to design it to fit smoothly into your present workflow while also adapting to future changes.

    Unrivalled Customer Support

    You are more than a customer when you work with DDM; you are a valued partner. Our professional support team is dedicated to your success and will provide you with prompt assistance, training, and continuous upgrades to ensure you get the most out of our product.

    Are you ready to transform your document control processes? Contact DDM today to take the first step towards improved product development efficiency, cooperation, and security.


  • Looking For Experts In Product Data Management?

    Looking For Experts In Product Data Management?

    Do you often struggle to find the data you need? Is it a constant struggle to share and collaborate with colleagues?

    With our product data management system, you can transform the way you manage your data. Low-cost but powerful, DDM CAD was developed by an expert team at CSI based in Newbury, Berkshire. Ideal for enterprise and small business customers, our software is used by engineering companies all over the world.

    Whether you’re struggling with an old paper system or find your current PDM for SolidWorks isn’t working, Design Data Manager want to change your perceptions of product data management.

    DDM CAD is used for a variety of popular CAD systems including SolidWorks, Solid Edge and Inventor.

    With our product data management system, you can get complex products to market in the quickest time while saving time and money at the same time. With our extra support, you can easily get the maximum value from our software. Our expert engineers can provide quick turnarounds on any problems you might be having.

    Discover more about our popular PDM system today. Or simply get in touch for more information.


  • Improving Product Lifecycle Management for Computer-Aided Designs

    Improving Product Lifecycle Management for Computer-Aided Designs

    Whether you use Solid Edge, SolidWorks or Inventor, our PLM and PDM software can make designing products quicker, easier and more cost-effective.

    Engineers across the UK are discovering the many benefits that DDM CAD can offer their business, with our software described as ‘going beyond data control and CAD’. Out of the box and scalable, it is quick and easy to implement, requires little maintenance, and offers completely secure access to data no matter where you are.

    Whatever struggles you’re having in managing your product lifecycle and product designs, DDM CAD offers a variety of solutions to make it easier to manage all types of data.

    We understand that poor data management can lead to miscommunication between colleagues, along with confusions over changes made to a design, with the part of the design process affecting every other part of your business.

    Whether you want to get products to market quicker, need to share data with greater ease, or want to achieve compliance with ISO or FDA, our software offers a solution for your struggles with product data management, with our team always looking to make changes which reflect your requirements.

    For more information, why not read more about our PLM solutions today?


  • Looking For PLM Solutions For Solidworks Online?

    Looking For PLM Solutions For Solidworks Online?

    For many years, Design Data Manager has been changing perceptions of PLM and PDM- and we want to do the same for you.

    Whether your current PLM system is too expensive or you feel it’s not powerful enough for the amount of data your process, Design Data Manager could have the software you need to become more productive in 2020.

    Our PDM solution for SolidWorks covers full product lifestyle management and makes it much easier to bring even the most complex engineering products to market in the quickest time possible. Smarter and more efficient than traditional systems, it offers full revision control of parts, models, drawings and office documents.

    Saving businesses time and money, we offer one of the best PDM systems for SolidWorks and are particularly ideal for enterprise and small business customers.

    DDM CAM is a much more efficient way to centralise the storage of all your engineering data and will dramatically reduce the time you spend searching for parts, assemblies, and drawings; it can also help to drive design reuse. All your data will be stored securely and available for fast retrieval by any authorised users.

    DDM CAD offers exceptional version control to prevent any data loss and integrates workflows to automate your design process for more efficient review and release of final designs. It can be used by hundreds of designers located in offices anywhere in the world.

    Find out more about our PLM solution for SolidWorks online today.


  • Looking for a Low-Cost Project Lifecycle Management Solution?

    Looking for a Low-Cost Project Lifecycle Management Solution?

    DDM CAD is renowned for its ease of implementation, speed, configurability and support for multiple systems.

    Design Data Manager can help you get quality products to market quicker while saving you time and money at the same time. It is renowned for improving engineers’ ability to organise and share data, and could completely transform your current perceptions of product lifecycle management.

    Our software has many innovative features to help you organise, find and communicate information so you can work as productively as possible.

    Seamlessly integrating with a number of well-known CAD systems, including SolidWorks, our software has been developed by technical and business professionals dedicated to providing industry-leading design and PDM software solutions.

    Making it much easier to share and communicate data, Design Data Manager can drive operational efficiency across all regulatory processes.

    Our software is ideal for companies looking for an affordable PLM/PDM solution that comes with all features built-in. Offering significant core product functionality, it can help you improve all aspects of data management since it covers all forms of information, including documents.

    Many customers already trust DDM with their product management, including Integra, Unwin Security Systems, Hornby and DCA.

    If you’re looking to improve your product lifecycle management, why not find out more about DDM CAD today?


  • Looking For Low Cost PLM Online?

    Looking For Low Cost PLM Online?

    Need a more efficient way to manage product data? Have you been searching for the most powerful yet affordable PLM?

    DDM CAD is an affordable software solution which is easy to implement, speedy, configurable and capable of supporting multiple systems.

    Whether you use SolidWorks or Solid Edge to produce your engineering data, it provides an affordable and easy-to-use solution that comes with exceptional software support.

    Our system is designed to streamline the PLM process for many major software packages, including SolidWorks, while increasing your productivity and improving efficiency across all regulatory processes.

    Requiring little to no maintenance, DDM CAD will make it much easier to organise and share your data at every stage of the product life cycle and can easily be configured to meet your unique business needs.

    As a low cost, multi-CAD solution, our software requires no additional modules and will also support every aspect of PLM, including:

    • CAD and document management
    • revision control of CAD parts
    • assemblies and drawings
    • office document lifecycle management
    • a quick and powerful search facility.

    Choose DDM CAD and you’ll also be working with our developers who offer advice, guidance and training to help you realise the full potential of your investment.

    Find out how DDM CAD can support your business today.


  • Innovative Product Data Management for SolidWorks

    Innovative Product Data Management for SolidWorks

    Design Data Manager provides a much smarter and more efficient way to manage your data and could change your current perceptions of PDM, enabling you to work much quicker, more productively and more efficiently in 2019.

    It could help you reduce your engineering costs, get products to market quicker and increase your design productivity.

    Easily adapted and configured to support SolidWorks, DDM CAD can also support variety of other CAD software packages including Solid Edge.

    Described as ‘the best investment ever’ by just one of our satisfied clients, our PDM software could transform the way you work and share data, increasing your design productivity and helping you achieve compliance for ISO or FDA while reducing waste and increasing part reuse.

    DDM CAD was developed by CSI, who were founded in the late 1980s and consist of a team of technical and business professionals dedicated to providing PDM software solutions for small to medium sized businesses. With our trade-up promotion, you can easily upgrade your current software for less.

    Simply request your free trial of DDM CAD today or get in touch with our team for more information.