Raj – i will contact you by mail – Jos

Jos: ‘classification’ (incl. class hierarchy, property inheritence, etc) is since long (1995) implemented in Dassault Catia V4 (and V5)’ infrastructure for plant design and shipbuiling applications. When carefully setup (with knowledge of the ship/plant process) it brings clear ROI e.g. in setup, user interaction, reporting, automation. E.g automation of ship hull structure drawings (with class based rules) reduces time from 8 hours for manual drawing to 30 minutes for automatic drawing (which would not be possible without proper use of classes in structure design and the rules to produce drawings).

Paul unfortunate finding ROI specific on classification is hard. Customers I am working with for sure see the benefits for classification, although it is usually implemented combined with PLM. Currently I am working with a customer who want knowledge classification in both a classical hierarchical structure as also by tagging. I believe in the long term a hierarchical classification will disappear and more and more a Google like search will be standard

In ENOVIA V6R2009 Autonomy search is implemented in Variant Configuration & some other center for better performance of Search Functionality.

ENOVIA is having Taxonomy based classification >> Library Central.

Thanks,
Bhushan Teli

Thanks for your positive response and to answer your question. Yes I have seen a few custom implementations where it has been implemented on top of ENOVIA SmarTeam. This were big customizations as most of the user interface and the search engine had to be programmed. I would assume ENOVIA V6 partners like Endeca or Autonomy (i hope i recall it correct – they provide also advanced search engines) could do the same. I am not aware of a solution where it is yet standard available, but i know startups are working on it.