Predator PDM Software

What is Predator PDM?

Predator PDM is a paperless manufacturing driven Production Data Management application designed to organize and control CNC Programs, Robot Programs, CMM Programs, PLC Programs, setup sheets, safety procedures, CMM programs, quality documents, and others with complete revision control. Predator PDM supports paperless shop floor operation with comprehensive integration with Predator DNC, CNC Editor, Virtual CNC, MDC and Tracker. Choose from two editions:

• Predator PDM™
• Predator PDM Enterprise™

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Predator PDM provides the right balance of flexibility, control and accountability to simplify adhering to regulatory and international standards including CMMC, CFR21 Part 11 or AS9100. Quality personnel will appreciate that Predator PDM helps to ensure that quality priorities are met by providing documented and structured change management to help avoid DOD, FDA and FAA audit findings. Manufacturing Engineering and CNC programming personnel will appreciate the day-to-day benefits of visualizing the manufacturing process, revision control of manufacturing files and the ability to assign manufacturing and quality statuses. IT personnel will appreciate Predator PDM's use of off the shelf and industry standard technology while reducing operational costs.

Why use Predator PDM?

• Manufacturing driven production document management
• Meet or exceed ITAR, CMMC, NIST 800-171, DFARS, 32 CFR Part 2002 and 21 CFR-21 Part 11
• Best practice workflow
• Easy Revision Control
• Manufacturing and Quality Statuses
• Manufacturing and Quality Requirements
• Multiple Secure Vaults
• Secure File Viewing with 40+ formats
• Unlimited number of documents
• Users, groups and 140 permissions
• Open API and database architecture
• Windows application integration with ERP, MES or PLM
• Secure Browser / web application integration with ERP, MES or PLM
• Paperless shop floor clients
• Integrates with Predator DNC
• Integrates with Predator Virtual CNC
• Integrates with Predator CNC Editor
• Integrates with Predator MDC
• Integrates with Predator Tracker
• Use your existing ERP and MES bar coded paperwork
• 11 International Languages
• 300+ Online help topics
• Optional Predator PDM Export Service™
• Made in the USA - Learn more

ITAR, CMMC, NIST 800-171, DFARS, 32 CFR Part 2002 and 21 CFR Part 11

Predator PDM provides paperless manufacturing driven production document management while simplifying ITAR, CMMC, NIST 800-171, DFARS, 32 CFR Part 2002 and 21 CFR part 11 compliance. Meet or exceed compliance and regulatory requirements for the DOD, FAA or FDA. Predator PDM is easy to implement while empowering CNC programmers, manufacturing engineers, quality engineers and shop floor personnel. Comprehensive as built record and history reporting simplifies audits. Configurable manufacturing and quality requirements address CAPAs with immediate corrective actions to fix the current issue, and implementing preventive measures to stop similar issues from happening again in the future.

Best practice workflow

Predator PDM includes best practice workflow wizards for release, unrelease, revise, rollback, checkin and checkout. Every wizard honors user and group permissions and includes ISO 9000 style history.

Easy Revision and Change Control

Revision control is highly automated with wizards and multiple manufacturing and quality statuses for each revision. Engineering change notices and numbers can be utilized and are integrated within the revision control process. Paper/form-based change processes can be eliminated with digital equivalents within Predator PDM Enterprise.

Manufacturing and Quality Statuses

Every vault item can be assigned specific manufacturing and quality statuses such as UnAssigned, Proveout, Run at Risk, Approved, Obsolete, Pending, Submitted 1st Piece, Not Applicable and one or more hold reasons. These customer specific manufacturing and quality statuses can be used to capture the current state of each revision. Statuses can be configured to have consequences and affect how the revision is viewed, used and its availability on the shop floor. Predator PDM supports an unlimited number of customer specific manufacturing and quality statuses.

Manufacturing and Quality Requirements

Major components such as part families, part numbers, machines, etc. can be assigned manufacturing and quality requirements within Predator PDM Enterprise. Requirements can even be assigned to specific revisions. These requirements can be used to establish additional signoffs for special processes or alternate workflows. Requirements can also utilize custom fields to capture as built records to satisfy a CAPA and enforce manufacturing or quality process changes. Within Predator PDM Enterprise requirements can provide a complete audit trail without incurring a huge burden on engineering or shop floor personnel. These customer specific manufacturing and quality requirements can be used to validate the current state of each revision. Requirements can be configured to have consequences and affect how the revision is viewed, used and its availability on the shop floor. Predator PDM supports an unlimited number of customer specific manufacturing and quality requirements.

Multiple Secure Vaults

Create separate vaults for ITAR, CUI, unclassified and as many document classifications as required. Optionally classify individual vault items as required vs. dedicated vaults.

Secure File Viewing

This all-new application provides file viewing for 40+ file formats within Predator PDM v12. Refer to the following file formats:

• Adobe™ Portable Document Format viewing for .PDF files
• CAD drawing and 3D Print viewing for .PLT, .DXF, .DWG*, .HPGL, .IGES*, .STL, .OBJ and 3MF files
• Document viewing for .RTF, .TXT, and .ODT files
• Hyper Text Markup Language viewing for .HTML files
• Microsoft Excel™ viewing for .XLS, .XLSX and CSV files
• Microsoft Viso™ viewing for .VDW, .VDX, .VSD, .VSDM, .VSDX, .VSS, .VSSM, .VSSX and .VST files
• Microsoft PowerPoint™ viewing for .PPS, .PPSM, and .PPSX files
• Microsoft Word™ viewing for .DOC and .DOCX files
• Image viewing for .BMP, .DIB, .RLE, .TIFF, .GIF, .JPEG, and .PNG files
• Video viewing and audio playing for .MP3, .MP4, .MOV .WAV and .OGG files
• X-ray viewing for .DCM files including tags with contrast style inspection

NOTE* DWG and IGES file viewing is primarily intended for 2D drawings. Full 3D support of all 3D elements with CAD specific flavors are not supported.

Open API and database architecture

Integrate your ERP and MES system with Predator PDM's open APIs (application programming interface) with 300+ methods all fully documented. Develop ERP and shop floor validation, flow part and job numbers from ERP directly into Predator and numerous other automation projects can be completed with C#, C++, VB.Net, VB6, VB script, Windows Script, Delphi and other compatible programming languages.

Predator PDM is based on an open architecture client/server database standard. Select from Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, or Oracle.

Windows application integration with ERP, MES or PLM

Predator PDM can integrate with Windows based ERP, MES or PLM systems. Over a dozen different command line options can be used to share specific Predator PDM screens, user credentials and database connections.

Secure Browser / web application integration with ERP, MES or PLM

Predator PDM can integrate with browser based or web application based ERP, MES or PLM systems. Over a dozen different command line options can be used to share specific Predator PDM screens, user credentials and database connections. The browser or web application based ERP, MES or PLM systems can be hosted on premise or in the cloud.

Paperless shop floor clients

Predator PDM includes a paperless touch screen friendly shop floor client that is fully configurable. It supports using bar codes, QR codes, RFID codes or launch directly from a work schedule. Part change overs are simplified with a fully integrated paperless environment of released and approved revisions. Machinists and shop floor personnel can easily validate the work order or job change over with a grid of details. Notifications of new revisions, manufacturing status or quality status changes reduce scrap and production issues in real-time. Empower machinists and shop floor personnel with functions for send and receive communications, 3D backplotting, downtime reporting, scrap reporting, etc. Several integration examples are listed below:

Integrated Predator DNC Touch client

Machinists using Predator PDM can download released CNC programs to their CNC machines or save edited CNC programs for review by CNC programmers using Predator DNC with a single click. Learn more

Integrated 3D backplotting and verification with Predator Virtual CNC

CNC programmers using Predator PDM can backplot and verify CNC programs in 3D using Predator Virtual CNC with a single click. Learn more

Integrated compare and revise CNC programs with Predator CNC Editor

CNC programmers using Predator PDM can revise and compare their CNC program revisions or uploaded edited CNC programs with the Predator CNC Editor with a single click. Learn more

Integrated machine monitoring and data collection with Predator MDC

Machinists and other shop floor personnel using Predator PDM Enterprise can initiate manual data collection events such as job start, part start, operation start, setup start, etc. in real-time a single click. Learn more

Integrated tool, gage and fixture check outs and check ins with Predator Tracker

Machinists and other shop floor personnel using Predator PDM Enterprise can check tools, gages and fixtures out and back in in real-time with a single click. Learn more

Predator PDM Export Service™

Predator PDM Export Service is a Windows service bundled with professional services by Predator field service engineers for exporting Predator PDM data in real-time. Example tags include job number, work order, lot number, part number, part name, machine number, machine name and vault item details. Real-time data is available to one or more ERP, MES or business applications that support JSON or XML.

• 24x7x365 operation via Windows Service
• Supports an unlimited number of machines
• Supports 25-40 real-time tags per machine
• Supports JSON and XML application integration
• Requires Predator PDM or Predator PDM Enterprise
• Includes onsite implementation and integration consulting

Customers can contact Predator Software at sales@predator-software.com for details and pricing.

Predator PDM Enterprise - Part Numbers

Predator PDM - Part Numbers

NOTE: Predator PDM licenses do not include licenses for Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle or Microsoft Access.

Predator PDM - Popular Options

Expand with Predator DNC

Every Predator PDM implementation can be expanded to include Predator DNC or Predator DNC Enterprise when machine communications and networking are needed.