Customer Story: coolOrange

coolOrange offers cutting-edge software tools and plug-ins tailored specifically for Autodesk product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM). coolOrange enhances manufacturing projects with advanced functionality and unmatched efficiency.

The Challenge: Enable collaboration between traditional design engineering tools and work performed in ACC

Many coolOrange customers design and manufacture products using traditional on-premises design tools like Inventor, AutoCAD, and Vault. These include manufacturers of building products and industrial equipment. However, most of their customers construct buildings, factories, plants, and infrastructure. They use software like Revit, Navisworks, Civil3D, and Plant3D and collaborate using Autodesk’s Construction Cloud.

coolOrange powerSync enables manufacturers to share essential data (models, specs, instructions) with their customers/partners in an automated, secure, and reliable way. This can be as simple as publishing PDFs of installation drawings into a construction project folder on Autodesk Docs or as complex as coordinating a Vault life-cycle-driven engineer-to-order design of a complex piece of chemical process equipment with the BIM Collaborate design process for the whole plant. powerSync’s automation can handle synchronizing data and workflows across disciplines and over extended time horizons using the power of Vault automation and Autodesk Platform Services APIs.

The APS Solution: powerSync from coolOrange

coolOrange has over a decade of experience creating solutions that enable manufacturers to publish data, collaborate on designs, and synchronize workflows between functions inside an enterprise. Using the power of the Autodesk Vault platform coolOrange powerJobs and powerGate have automated and connected manufacturers’ data and processes for over a decade. Our goal with powerSync is to extend those automation and integration capabilities to Autodesk Construction Cloud.

This is where Autodesk Platform Services comes in. Autodesk Platform Services (APS) provides a secure foundation for developers to build powerful cloud-based applications that leverage design and engineering data, utilizing industry-standard authentication and authorization protocols to protect sensitive information and ensure reliable communication. APS provides the underpinning for powerSync to provide automated publishing, collaboration, and workflow synchronization between the Vault and Autodesk Construction Cloud applications like BIM Collaborate, Build and Docs.

The powerful combination of Vault automation using powerJobs and APS even allows for reliable synchronization of Vault lifecycles with ACC workflows like Issues, Submittals and Doc Reviews.

The possibilities are endless. powerSync brings the power of Autodesk Construction Cloud to Autodesk Vault.

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Business Outcomes: Better collaboration, communication, customization

Better communication and digital asset management has customers seeing a 15-20% design productivity improvement
Data quality is improved by 30%
Easy customization and integration by third-party developers

“APS API-based interoperability tools like powerSync facilitate seamless communication and data sharing among diverse stakeholders, allowing for better collaboration and digital asset management. That’s going to revolutionize cross-industry communication and data sharing.” - Milton Capsimalis, Head of North American Operations and Business Development, coolOrange