Discovery for Design

Design Engineers' selection opportunities include many parts with the technical ability to meet defined needs - identifying the correct one is a larger challenge, and often one that is only arrived at through time consuming iterations between sourcing and engineering. Now with Endeca's Discovery for Design solution, the ability to align design engineering with corporate initiatives to reduce risk or cost - or to support enhanced quality or manufacturability efforts can be dynamically established and updated. This unique aggregation of part and supplier data, enabled with guided navigation and preferential part identification is a breakthrough solution that can bring dramatic advantages to your supply chain initiatives.

Now available with the added speed and scalability of Endeca's McKinley Platform, Endeca Discovery for Design has the scale and power to meet the needs of the most sophisticated enterprise engineering departments, supporting thousands of users with a comprehensive source of part and supplier information.

Principal features:

Rapid Time to Value 

Leveraging the Discovery Framework, Endeca Discovery for Design rapidly delivers value to users. The configurable reference template can be utilized as a standard deployment, or quickly enhanced to reflect specific enterprise interests. Unlike traditional BI deployments, the Discovery Framework can be continuously updated and reconfigured at the user level to meet changing business interests – without the limitations of cost, resource and time challenges of older technologies.

Ability to integrate data across internal and external data source

Endeca Discovery for Design leverages the most advanced information access technology platform, with the ability to aggregate structured and unstructured information from disparate data sources, classify, index and make available for unrestricted search and discovery.

Guided Navigation to support part navigation

The challenges of part sourcing are complicated by inefficient data source navigation, hampering part identification and leading to many non-productive searches. With Endeca Discovery for Design, part selection is accelerated through the use of guided navigation, enabling engineers to follow a clear path to all parts that meet identified criteria, eliminating dead-end searches.

Preferential Part Identification

Design Engineers can readily identify preferred part/supplier combinations for selection, without requiring additional data lookups or confirmations, and eliminating the iterative process of submitting selected parts lists to sourcing only to have them be returned for re-selection. This time and cost saving feature assures perfect alignment with corporate initiatives at all stages of the supply chain, and delivers a true, lasting competitive advantage in time to market.

Dynamic Part Preference Update

Preference information can be retained in a common database that can be updated within the sourcing organization. This ability to identify preferences at any frequency enables a virtual perfect alignment between sourcing and engineering, allowing for the right parts to be selected from the preferred suppliers, every time.