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What are Data Templates?
Cobuilder goBIM
for Manufacturers and Merchants
As a manufacturer, you are the most credible source of data related to the construction products, materials, systems and components you produce. Yet, as your business grows, so does your data. You end up managing many data silos leading to data duplicates and inconsistencies. Maintaining your data becomes a never-ending challenge that has your teams wasting huge amounts of time to clarify, correct and recreate missing or redundant data. Time that is better spent on revenue-generating activities.
The solution to these complex issues is quite simple: structure all your data in a way that ensures machine-readability and interoperability with all existing and future systems.
With the goBIM software solution, Cobuilder can help you achieve both your short- and long-term data goals. In the short term, you will experience improved automation within your own organization and access to the digital market. You will re-gain confidence in your own data and be sure that you are feeding designers, engineering companies, contractors and developers reliable, accurate and updated data – and doing so in compliance with international and local standards and requirements.
In the longer term, you can create and market your own data catalogues, generate usability data, create forecasts, and get your data into digital twins. You will be ready for anything the digital future has to offer.
How to get started?
Each organization is at a different stage of its digital transformation journey and your business has little or no use of a ‘one size fits all’ solution for managing product data. Cobuilder can help you develop your digital data strategy and implement a solution that will be an integral part of your current IT infrastructure. Thus, we can help you experience the value of your data by ensuring you control how it flows through any internal or external systems.
Data modelling and governance
As a data entity, a ‘product’ is an ambiguous term in most organisations. Manufacturers need to look at devising a common technical vocabulary concerning the data they manage in terms of the objects it applies to, their attributes and structures. This lies at the center of their BIM-readiness.
- Manage structured data using a data dictionary
- Use common logic between systems
- Devise a single source of information for all your departments/subsidiaries
- Implement a consistent strategy for dealing with local requirements
- Introduce governance practices and assign data champions across your organisation
- Create data templates for different purposes
Standardisation and Compliance Management
Collaboration with any internal or external party becomes an efficiency challenge when your data is not structured in the same way, not to mention the regulatory compliance issues that may arise due to inconsistencies. Structuring your data through Data Templates, solves such issues.
- Populate data in templates that are in accordance with the current EN & ISO standards
- Declare data based on the standards your products are tested against
- Instantly produce data sheets with different levels of information
- Internationalise your business through automated translations
- Export machine-readable data to different systems