Integrating File Synchronization and File Locking to eliminate version conflicts for multi-location design teams.
A recent study of 40,000 projects found that 66% of design projects completely fail or are late, over budget or missing critical features. The cost overruns average an alarming 43% according to the Standish Group International.
One factor that can contribute to these failures is geographical distance among project team members. Project teams now rarely have the luxury of working together in a single location. And they often lack even the assurance of having a stable team for the life of the project. Thus, as companies outsource more design and manufacturing services, their teams must find ways to work together across geographical and often company boundaries. Increasing this complexity is the large nature of design files created from computer aided design (i.e. “CAD”) systems, which necessitates that a local copy of such designs are kept at each office within a design team.
But when this is the goal, challenges arise:
- How do you ensure that when a designer is updating a file, another designer is not simultaneously making changes and creating version conflicts?
- How do you ensure that designers are working on the most up to date files, regardless of which office they are in?
- How do you replicate changes made on a large design file over a slow connection link?
Introducing the PeerSync Collaboration Package for CAD systems
The PeerSync Collaboration Package for CAD systems offers integrated File Synchronization and File Locking capabilities to meet these challenges and enable multi-location design teams for effective and efficient collaboration.
Typically, many different entities are involved in getting a building constructed, including building owners, users, financiers, design professionals and consultants on the many specialized component parts found in a building.
Collaboration techniques involving technological tools have been available and in use for many years now in various industries, generating a growing amount of information and experience about implementation issues and solutions to problems that have been faced and overcome, with varying degrees of success. An article appearing in the March 2006 edition of www.cadalyst.com contained a survey indicating that “94% of participants said they collaborate with others on project information, and 92% of those said this collaboration occurs at least once a week.” Moreover, “though just about everyone’s doing it, few are satisfied with their collaboration processes, with only 20% saying they are satisfied with their current approach.”
The PeerSync Collaboration Package for CAD systems provides the following benefits:
* Transparent file synchronization and file locking among N number of geographical office branches
* Bandwidth Usage Minimization, through Bandwidth Throttling and Byte Level replication
* Real-Time CAD File Transfer for fast recovery and usage
* Real-Time File Locking among branches
* Parallel File Processing
To find out more about PeerSync or to download a trial copy, please visit www.purplerage.com/peersync. If you would like to discuss your project with an engineer, please call 0871-2500058 (international: +44-1684-576343).
