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NetApp Manufacturing Solutions

NetApp is working with leading manufacturing companies to develop simplified, consolidated storage solutions that fit perfectly into their environments. These manufacturers include Airbus, Arup, BAE, BMW, Boeing, John Deere, Lear, Metaldyne, Moen, MTU, PSA Peugeot Citroen, and Renault.

Benefits

Complex Environments
Product design environments are extremely complex in their topology, administration, and use encompassing multiple platforms and heterogeneous equipment.

NetApp multiprotocol storage solutions unite disparate systems and platforms, improving both interoperability and accessibility. Native support of NFS and CIFS within the NetApp kernel eliminates the need for emulation software such as PC-NFS or Samba-and allows Windows and UNIX clients to share the same copy of data. NetApp solutions support cohesive access to both network-attached and storage area network data. They reduce the complexity and risk associated with the product development environment.

Assuring Data Availability
As data grows and matures in the development process, the risk associated with data loss increases dramatically. Data associated with the design and analysis stages are especially mission-critical.

NetApp delivers the ultimate security in multiplatform, multinetwork environments, offering manufacturing customers the highest levels of data availability. With multiprotocol storage solutions and comprehensive management, caching, and replication tools, NetApp extends data safeguards outside the main data center to remote design centers and the desktop, isolating data from corruption and deletion. Unique Snapshot capability provides quick recovery of deleted or corrupted data files for increased productivity.

Data Reuse Considerations
Design engineers often reuse historic design information in new projects to speed time-to-market and ensure consistency. Regulations call for manufacturers to maintain design data in reference form over extended periods for safety, repair, and liability. And legal, marketing, and other staff frequently seek access to read-only data sets to do their jobs.

NetApp offers efficient, accessible, cost-effective solutions that bridge the data reuse storage gap maintaining data availability by matching the right class of storage with the appropriate data.

Remote Collaboration
A typical manufacturer employs a variety of complex software packages, tens of thousands of engineers, and a slew of additional skilled staff and contractors in a highly distributed environment. Teams must be able to communicate and work efficiently and economically, regardless of location.

NetApp allows the most effective remote collaboration for product development via centralized data oversight, local file caching, and unique data replication software. Where companies once placed multiple administrators to control data movement and process management all over the map, often a single administrator is now able to expertly manage data from a centralized location.

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