The best feature has to be the freeze and release for BOMs and drawings. Before Sibe, getting a BOM out of engineering and moving it into our ERP for procurement required a manual multi-step email chase as an admin for our team. When I finish the designing, I can freeze that revision in Sibe. It starts automatic notifications and locks the files so that everyone involved from procurement to the shop floor knows they are working off a single source of truth. It substituted a shared link that engineering provided, and a spreadsheet with tracking information that was always out of date.

As the IT Operation Manager, the best thing I like about Sibe is that it has zero-server and zero-install architecture. Our company was in SolidWorks PDM which requires setting up a server and involves a third party company, where the basic set up cost is $20,000. We migrated to Sibe, and encountered very low downtime. The security model for external sharing, gives you granular access control, like you can make it view-only for your customer and disable download.

I find most valuable about Sibe is the ability to always work from the released revision of a product. For example, I am currently working on a launch campaign for the Guardian Firewall Appliance GFA-3000. I recently logged into Sibe and downloaded the file GFA-3000-MAIN-ASSY-REV-B.SLDASM (which has been released by our designers). Using Sibe’s integrated viewer, I was able to instantly create isometric and exploded views with a high resolution suitable for our website and datasheets. Additionally, I was able to leave a pinned comment for the engineers (e.g. “can you please take a photo that shows this new port from this angle?”) and they can respond to me there in Sibe. Thus, Misalignment in Marketing and Engineering was eliminated through the use of Sibe.