They then can view and manipulate the designs together by use of a command sharing technology. This means a tremendous amount of communication needs to take place between these companies. You can't get enough information that way. Spatial Technology will soon make its Web-based CAD translating and healing service widely available. Users send CAD models such as these to the Spatial website, where they are translated and healed on the Spatial-hosted server.
Users then are able to retrieve the upgraded CAD model on their computers.
It can open an E-Vis process that replicates a request for purchase, and then suppliers can get electronic access to the project, ask questions, conference with the engineers supporting the activity, and submit proposals electronically. EAI knew that some companies that already used its technologies had been trying to put together PDM technology of their own, which would allow them to share real-time information across all suppliers' systems. But to the information services departments in some companies, this concept was totally foreign. They were used to building open systems inside the company and providing a firewall outside the company. You can host it on the Web.