CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
6 September 2007
Product News
PACE Releases Design Software Pacelab Suite 2.2
Berlin software provider PACE announced the release of Pacelab Suite 2.2. The latest version of its knowledge-based engineering software for multidisciplinary preliminary design introduces a role-based access control plug-in which improves data security and consistency in distributed collaborative work environments.
The preliminary design of complex technical systems such as cars and aircraft typically involves decentralized teams organized according to discipline or subcomponent. Moreover, today's suppliers and partners are deeply integrated into manufacturers' business processes and IT infrastructure. The constant exchange of critical data in these collaborative and concurrent engineering processes poses substantial risks to data consistency and intellectual property rights.
Pacelab Suite 2.2 addresses these issues with a new plug-in that grants access to sensitive information and privileged actions through work roles, which may be freely combined to cover the tasks and responsibilities of a user within the team. For maximum flexibility, Pacelab's access control is fully configurable and enables a fine-grained, customer-specific allocation of rights; its open structure also allows the integration of additional features and authentication methods.
With the new plug-in, Pacelab Suite expands on its core strength of supporting multidisciplinary design processes, adding benefit to a unique knowledge modeling approach that accommodates parameters, methods and design strategies from diverse disciplines in a unified data model. Stored and administered in Pacelab's central repository, this engineering knowledge can be distributed across departments and organizations in a consistent and standardized manner. The new version is also fully compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista.
The next major release of the Pacelab Suite platform is scheduled for late 2007. Pacelab Suite 3.0 will be delivered with easy-to-use application programming interfaces (APIs) for the most common .NET programming languages. These will enable in-house or third-party developers to freely extend all Pacelab applications with domain or use case-specific functionality and greatly broaden the field of applications for Pacelab Suite.
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