Simple, affordable PLM/PDM solutions
We get it — deploying a PDM (Product Data Management) tool can be complicated and costly, particularly for smaller to mid-size organizations. Surely, there must be an easier way?
You’re in luck! SPK and Associates has years of PLM/PDM experience. We have enjoyed hundreds of PDM deployments and helped hundreds of companies streamline their operation, become more efficient and allocate the proper configurations for easy audits for your regulatory requirements.

SPK and Associates has extensive experience with…
- SolidWorks & SolidWorks PDM
- PTC Creo and PTC Windchill / Integrity (RV&S)
- AutoCAD
- Altium
- Ansys Multiphysics
- Dassault 3D Experience
- Dassault Enovia
- MatLab
- Labview
- Oracle Agile PLM
How can our Product Lifecycle Management Services help you?
Biotech and medtech experience
With over 20 years experience in these fields, we know about your specific engineering, compliance and regulatory challenges.
Integrated hardware and software solutions
We look at your lifecycle management from all angles, improving efficiency and quality.
We work for engineering
Our ultimate goal is happy and productive engineers. We work for them. We don’t get in their way.
CAD Data Management
The primary focus of a mechanical engineer or industrial designer is on creating cool and innovative products – not spending endless hours managing their design files. Yet, CAD Data Management is a vital component to an organization’s success. Unfortunately, many organizations and design teams alike say they suffer from data management challenges – controlling, accessing or sharing design data.
Far too often design teams struggle to find the CAD files they need to do their job. Or, they encounter file conflicts, uncontrolled revisions, file duplication and data loss. Additionally, many companies have problems collaborating because of difficulties sharing files with others. All of these affect your design team’s productivity.

Not only can CAD data management be frustrating, but it also places your organization’s most valuable asset, your Intellectual Property (IP), at risk.
What if there was a way to implement CAD data management simply and cost efficiently, at the same time reducing your risk?
Well you’re in luck because SPK and Associates has been implementing and optimizing CAD Design tools and PDM/PLM solutions for over 20 years — tools such as SOLIDWORKS, PTC CREO/Windchill and AutoCAD. In fact, having SPK implement CAD Data Management solutions may be easier than you think.
Your Expert CAD Management Consultants
Well you’re in luck because SPK and Associates has been implementing and optimizing CAD Design tools and PDM/PLM solutions for over 20 years — tools such as SOLIDWORKS, PTC CREO/Windchill and AutoCAD. In fact, having SPK implement CAD Data Management solutions may be easier than you think.
Our Approach to Product Lifecycle Management

Innovation
Real innovation is strategic, and potentially very small but it requires many stages to support it. It’s obviously the most strategic piece to the puzzle.
Intelligence
Customizing applications to do the right thing at the right time and provide you with the right information needed is a foundational step for true innovation to happen.
Integration
No company works in 1 tool only. Multiple tools and platforms are integrated to make a ‘system’ for which an organization can perform it’s business.
Infrastructure
The foundational element of technology is the infrastructure used to build the entire base of this stack and this is why we treat it as critical to our approach.
PDM/PLM Advisory Services
Whether you’re in the medical device Industry and need a full Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system, or you’re a manufacturing company ensuring you have a way to manage your growing Product Data Management (PDM) infrastructure, SPK and Associates Advisory Service delivers the strategic businesses information to provide a valued insight for Collective Design (CAD / CAM / CAE), Product Data Management (PDM) and Manufacturing Process Management.
Related Product Lifecycle Management Resources
Solidworks Error: No Database Attached To This View – Part 2
Hi everyone, I am Daniela, the SolidWorks PDM SME for SPK and Associates. Today, I’ll be showing you how to fix the SolidWorks error message “no database is connected to this view.” This video is split in to two parts. Check out part one here. You can watch the video...
5 Reasons to Celebrate SPK’s 20th Birthday
It’s a landmark year for our team at SPK and Associates this year - we’re celebrating our 20th birthday! We’ve grown from our humble beginnings in Los Gatos, California with two people working for us back in 2003. Now, we’re an internationally established business and...
SolidWorks PDM Error: No Database Attached to this View Part 1
Hi everyone, I am Daniela, the SolidWorks PDM SME for SPK and Associates. Today, I’ll be showing you how to fix the SolidWorks error message "no database is connected to this view." This video will be split in to two parts. You can watch the video as Daniela walks...
Codebeamer: Agile ALM For ISO 26262 Standard
Meeting safety standards for road vehicles demands a systematic approach. And this is exactly what is needed to comply with ISO 26262 standard (the road safety standard). Agile's flexibility and rapid iteration may not suffice for ISO 26262. But, Creating Agile ALM...
The Best Product Lifecycle Management Tool Creates Proven ROI
Struggling with communication and process fragmentation issues in your engineering operations? PTC Windchill was seen as the best Product Lifecycle Management tool in these success stories. It helped two engineering companies achieve improved productivity and reduced...
STRATTEC Security Corporation’s PTC Windchill PLM ROI Case Study
STRATTEC Security Corporation deployed PTC Windchill to replace its existing product lifecycle management (PLM) solution. Additionally, they wanted to improve product design tracking and collaboration. Nucleus found that PTC Windchill PLM enables increased...