Proven, trusted solutions
Whether your team is collaborating on product development or communicating with suppliers, Adobe solutions can help you share information more securely across the value chain. Adobe solutions for manufacturing let you leverage the information stored in your CAD, PLM, or ERP systems, helping to ensure that authorized team members have rapid access to the information they need to make high-quality decisions and accelerate cycle times.
Improved access to product data means improved communication and collaboration. Broader engagement means that even team members working "downstream" — in tooling, support, maintenance, supply chain, procurement, technical publications, and sales and marketing — can get engaged earlier in global manufacturing processes. Early and appropriate involvement can help teams maximize the return on investment (ROI) of 3D design assets and remove cost and waste from the product development lifecycle.
Adobe uniquely helps organizations increase communication and collaboration throughout the product lifecycle by engaging the value chain — anywhere, anytime, and in any medium — through Adobe's universal clients. Leverage the trusted and universal reach of PDF technology and the Adobe® Flash® Platform, along with Adobe's desktop and server-based technology, to automate paper-based processes while protecting your sensitive information wherever it gets distributed.
Adobe and partner solutions
Adobe solutions combine desktop and server-based products with 3D PDF technology from industry leaders to help you publish, protect, review, and archive engineering information using PDF files as an essential part of your PLM workflows.
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Adobe products and technologies
Global enterprises can rely on Adobe Reader® software and the Adobe Flash Player runtime to deliver any kind of information to the widest possible audience, both inside and outside the enterprise.
Portable Document Format (PDF)
An open standard
Communicate with confidence using an open standard (ISO 32000) that has resulted in more than one billion PDF files in existence today. PDF can also be used in strict accordance with industry standards, such as PDF/A (ISO 19005) for long-term retention and archiving and PDF/E (ISO 24517) for the reliable exchange of engineering information (including support for embedded 3D).
A more secure container for effective collaboration
Share product manufacturing information (PMI) such as geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, text, and annotations more securely. PDF directly supports 3D model-based definition, providing the flexibility to retain either precise 3D CAD geometry or a lightweight representation of 3D CAD designs.
Reduced need to support multiple visualization file formats
Accurately represent documents independent of application, hardware, and operating system. Combine 2D and 3D CAD data with other critical project content, such as interactive forms, bills of materials, embedded multimedia and other rich content, and general office documents, into a single, compact PDF file.
Adobe Reader
Collaborative workflow participation
Engage virtually everyone involved in the product lifecycle — customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders. Enable them to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on PDF files without extensive training. Adobe Reader supports viewing and interacting with 3D data published to the PRC and U3D data formats.
Ubiquitous, global standard for electronic document sharing
Take advantage of the wide distribution of Adobe Reader; Adobe has distributed more than 500 million copies of the software in the last two years alone. This pervasiveness means global enterprises can engage their value chains in more compelling ways and share information inside and outside the enterprise.
Lower training, maintenance, and support costs
Benefit from users' familiarity with Adobe Reader. Learning curves are short, and little to no support is required.
Adobe Flash Platform
This integrated set of technologies provides everything you need to develop and deliver compelling content and interactive applications to the widest possible audience. The Flash Platform is ubiquitous on the web, and over 80% of all web videos are delivered in Flash Player compatible formats today. For end users, viewing rich media files is simple — over 98% of Internet-connected personal computers have Flash Player already installed, so no plug-in downloads are required.
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