SMARTEAM product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, help organizations innovate, improve quality, and reduce both costs and product development times.  They also help companies collaborate internally, across geographic boundaries, and with suppliers and customers. 

Today approximately 100,000 people in more than 3000 companies around the world are using Smarteam solutions, virtually in all manufacturing industries.  Smarteam streamlines communication through Web portals and data exchange tools.

Smarteam combines with Catia to offer a solid, scalable entry-level solution to mid-market businesses offering PLM benefit rich solutions.  By simplifying the communication through web portals and data exchange tools, Smarteam solutions can drive higher efficiency and greater accuracy across product teams including:

- Product Engineering

- Product Sourcing

- Production Support

- Sales and Service

Smarteam for product lifecycle collaboration - delivers a platform independent infrastructure that allows for production development, CAD design, manufacturing and maintenance sources, new intuitive, thin-client SMARTEAM-CATIA X-tended Integration for Catia V5.

The infrastructure and design of the SMARTEAM PLM version V5R13 will be parallel to Ford Motor Company's Team Center Engineering, offering the same capabilities but geared toward the smaller to medium sized enterprise which qualifies Aztec Mfg Corp. 

Smarteam will integrate an enterprise on multiple levels:

Information Integration - CAD and Product Development

Capturing live data from CAD design, manufacturing, and maintenance sources.  Smarteam drives a product’s information across the extended enterprise, bringing added value to the entire organization's applications and functions.

Processes Integration -

Standardize processes, leveraging knowledge across the enterprise leading to better and more efficient decisions and processes.

Organizational and Business Integration -

Smarteam standardizes work methods and facilitates collaboration and synergy across departments, entire remote sites, suppliers and customers.  Smarteam optimizes design and sourcing, bill of materials management, standards compliance, and customer responsiveness.