Design engineering

Engineering a design can be a complicated process requiring input from several different stakeholders and experts. That makes it easy for ideas and decisions to be misunderstood or miscommunicated, especially when team members, resources and experts are geographically dispersed.

With the information-sharing and distance collaboration capabilities of SMART solutions, you can bring everyone together in one room, regardless of location. With our line of interactive whiteboards, display products, collaboration software, services and support, you can transform your workplaces into dynamic collaboration spaces where teamwork can thrive. You can brainstorm, work on schematics and designs, analyze data, review schedules and capture and distribute next steps to your team – all without unnecessary travel. Your notes and markups can be seen by all participants in real time and saved digitally for easy distribution, so you can identify potential design issues before production, reduce misunderstanding, speed up decision-making and ultimately complete your projects faster.

With SMART solutions for design engineering, you can

• Improve design review and decision-making – share knowledge and identify potential design flaws before production begins by demonstrating project requirements and specifications
• Enhance cross-functional communication – edit documents simultaneously with local or remote team members, resources and experts, save your changes and distribute the updated documents to your teams in real time
• Capture everyone's input – annotate over designs and drawings, write notes over your Microsoft Office and Adobe application files and capture whiteboarding notes as PPT or PDF screenshots

 

 

Business process management

Process management is all about improving the performance of your business, whether it's faster speed to market on new products and services, improved operational efficiency, or increasing the value of your customers' experience. But changing the way your organization, suppliers and partners do business is never easy. Coordinating business functions in different geographic locations can be a daunting task, plagued with travel that costs time and money. With SMART solutions, you can bring stakeholders, suppliers or customers from various locations together into the same room to share, save and distribute information in real-time, which means better meeting outcomes and a reduced risk of misunderstanding.

SMART solutions provide a visual and engaging way for stakeholders to collaborate with process owners throughout development – from process definition and analysis to activity mapping, improvement targets and ongoing measurement. With our interactive whiteboards, displays and conferencing software, you can share analysis and ideas across the entire team, whether they are in the same room or spread across the globe. This can help accelerate your ability to reach consensus, improve decision making, and manage the implementation of newly transformed processes – all for immediate cost savings and customer satisfaction gains.

With SMART solutions for business process management, you can

• Share business process analysis while it's in progress – allow stakeholders to visualize and modify the entire process for more flexible, innovative planning with fewer misunderstandings
• Collaborate across virtual process teams – colleagues, suppliers, manufacturers and clients in multiple locations can not only view process materials, but can make corrections and suggestions that all can view and debate
• Engage the real experts – realize the freedom to work with subject matter experts and key stakeholders you require based on their insight, not their expense

 

 

 

Product development

Managing the development of any new product – from pharmaceuticals to software – can be a long and challenging process. But with the information-sharing and distance collaboration capabilities of SMART solutions, you can better manage timelines, complex specifications and geographically dispersed teams. This can dramatically speed up decision-making, accelerate your design and development process and ultimately bring a better product to market in a shorter timeframe.

In the development of many new products, it's common for widely dispersed teams to simultaneously work on different components or processes. SMART solutions enable you to bring relevant expertise together in one room to analyze data, review schedules, brainstorm, document, capture and distribute the next steps to your team – regardless of where participants are located. This helps ensure all input is accounted for and everyone is working toward a common goal. Being able to work on the same document with local or remote meeting participants means you can always use the best team for the job.

With SMART solutions for product development, you can

• Enhance cross-functional communication – maintain project ownership by editing, saving and distributing updated documents to your teams in real time
• Improve design decision-making – enable your development teams to share more knowledge and gain better understanding through visually demonstrated project requirements
• Speed up your time to market – accelerate the development process with more efficient review meetings and documented action plans that ensure everyone is on the same page

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Flexible training options for modern businesses

At SMART, we know the importance of effective training. Successful businesses rely on an adaptable, versatile workforce that manages change well. The best way to achieve this is by consistently training and improving the skills of your people.

Whether your trainees are on-site or in remote locations, in a corporate or an industrial environment, SMART solutions give you flexibility. Our products make training sessions visual and interactive, so you can communicate information and new concepts more clearly and in greater detail, and trainees can learn at a quicker pace and retain information more effectively. Your business benefits from people who are better prepared, more informed and have a greater chance of driving results for your business.

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