Products Overview
Designed specifically for what is important to you
DISCUS is specifically designed in a modular fashion to enable you to focus on what’s important to you. What iTunes did for making music enjoyable (i.e., enabling users to select only the specific songs they want), DISCUS does for making software affordable. For example, if you don’t use drawings, there is no need to pay for a license for OCR. Conversely, if you aren’t interested in accessing 3D models, you don’t have to pay for the capability.
The cornerstone of the DISCUS product family is DISCUS Basic. This is the only required module and you can consider all of the other modules as optional add-ons.
The DISCUS product modules include:
DISCUS Basic – The foundation module for managing the TDP and identifying characteristics and requirements from 2D drawings and specs.
DISCUS OCR – Use Optical Character Recognition to help extract characteristics from drawing images and specification documents.
DISCUS Results – Enter actual result values for the characteristics and have the system automatically validate compliance.
DISCUS Planner – Manage characteristics by specific operation including the creation of process illustrations and work instructions.
DISCUS 3D – Interrogate the native 3D CAD model (CATIA, Pro/E, NX) and annotations to automatically identify characteristics and illustrations.
DISCUS Design – Evaluate design-for-manufacturing by exploring features and characteristics versus producibility rules.
The Solution page provides a more detailed description of how you can mix and match the various DISCUS modules to create the solution that is the best fit for your organization.
