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Founded in London in 1856, The Engineer has documented engineering innovation since the Industrial Revolution. Today, it remains one of the UK’s longest-established engineering publications, reaching senior engineers and industry decision-makers across major sectors. In her August 26 opinion piece for The Engineer, Christina Rebel, CEO of CAD ROOMS, examines why engineering collaboration needs infrastructure designed for CAD data rather than document sharing.
Why document collaboration falls short
final_assembly_v3_FINAL_use_this_one.SLDASM This familiar filename reveals a deeper problem: engineering data is not the same as document data. CAD assemblies contain dependencies between parts, drawings and revisions, while many reviewers cannot access native CAD software.Tech-Clarity's Cost of Poor Collaboration in Engineering report finds engineers work with outdated data 28 per cent of the time, while collaboration affects 40 per cent of engineering time.
Christina argues that moving legacy tools to the cloud is not enough. Engineering collaboration must preserve assembly relationships, support accessible design reviews, address data residency and fit workflows engineers will trust.
CAD ROOMS is a cloud-native PDM & PLM platform that helps engineering teams manage CAD data, revisions, design reviews and supplier collaboration across multiple CAD tools.
Still managing engineering data like ordinary documents? Read Christina Rebel’s full op-ed in The Engineer to discover what engineering-first, cloud-native collaboration should look like.
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