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About us

global-work.net is an innovative, increasing enterprise for collaborative solutions specialized on CAD/PLM technology (Computer aided Design, Product Life Cycle Management) based on the requirements of automotive companies.

As global-work.net has many years of experience in product development services, like CAD technology, product data management and CAD data exchange are available at global-work.net.

These experiences are influencing our services, where the newest software technologies and also up-to-date mechanisms of security find their field of application.

We are your partner for global collaboration.

Our Vision

We have the vision, to put at every time our products at our customers disposal, with which they will be way able, to fulfill their requirements easily in the global product development and management.

Our goal

The globalisation of the companies requires multiple answers for the communication.
The devolopment of products takes place all around the clock and all around the world.
Therefore it's imperative, that all involved partners will be supplied with the latest information.
For this reason, our goal is to support our customers in the most effective and simple way in their growing requirements with the exchange of information.
We provide our customers with tools, with wich they can reach their target securely and easily.
Therefore there is no need for additional IT knowhow nor investion in your infrastructure.

Our solutions are characterized by easy-to-use, security, worldwide availability and ad hoc readiness-to-use.

In our product line project management center you will find security technologies, which are standardized in online banking applications for the maximum of protection of your company's data.

Register– create Project– define User – get going …

Why waste needless time for installation?
‘Project Management Center' (PMC) only needs a computer with internet access and a common web browser. An installation is absolutely unnecessary – you even don't have to configure or change your network.

Registration

Prior to work with PCM you have to register at global-work.net
Registration is made online. It is sufficient enough to complete the following form. If registration is transmitted, you will get an e-mail for confirmation.

Without any delay you are able to work
with your projects.

Create a project structure

You have the opportunity to create projects at random without additional costs.

At creation time, you have to define the name of the project and the project status. If status is ‘online', project can be handled completely. Select ‘readonly' to prevent documents from modification. The access ‘read' stills remains. If you want to deny any access to your project, select ‘obsolete'.

In addition you are able to insert a description.

After creation of a project, you can change at any time the name, the status or the description. Simply click under “view project” on the symbol

For structuring the documents within your projects, you can create, rename or delete folders. For these actions you have adequate symbols.

Create users

First obtain the e-mail address of the business partners, whom you want to allow access to your projects. Now you have the opportunity with menu ‘Company-users' to create extra users. If you want you can assign different administration rights to those users.
You are able to change or delete these settings at any time.

With the icon (User-role) in ‘View project', you define the users who will get access to your project. For this purpose you only enter the users e-mail address. If this user doesn't have a PMC- account till now, it will be automatically created by the system.
Now you can define the individual permissions for that user to this project.

Special advantage of PMC: Register any number of users or create any size of project structure. This has no effect on your account balance. Only used disk space and data traffic will be invoiced.

Get going: Filling projects with files ...

After you have created your projects, you can immediately fill up the projects with your desired files. Therefore select the project folder you want to upload e.g. some CAD-documents. Select the following symbol for uploading the files: (Upload new files).

The File browser will be opened. Select the desired date. The encrypted transfer is starting.

There is also a window where you can see the remaining time for the upload process. This is very useful if you have to provide data with amounts of many Megabytes.

Defining permissions ...

Finally you can define the permissions of the different project partners on your uploaded file. This is very easy. Simply open the detail view with the icon:
You get a view with all the available partners.

Now define the permissions or deny several partners to read this file.
You use this option when e.g. some competitors work within the same project.

By the way, permissions can be changed at any time.

Now PMC is working for you ...

With the tracking-service inside PMC you have the opportunity to get information about all changes concerning your products.

Your project partner now can log in to PMC and download the provided file with the icon:
Of course, the download is encrypted. Now your partner works with your document.
When he has finished his work, he uploads the file for you. Files can also be uploaded with automated versioning.

Your partner can choose between 2 options to upload his file:
He creates a new version of your original file or he selects a new filename.

So the system does two jobs for you:
- There is no possibility to change original data
- The option ‘new version' provides you with the information about the changes already done.
Your project partner also has the right to define the permissions on his own files.


And what else PMC can do ...

... register today and you will know it!
You will be convinced by simple handling, security and performance of PMC!

Project Management Center (PMC) summary

The Project Management Center (PMC) from global-work.net is a web based Collaboration- Software of the latest generation. It is specially developed for the automotive industry where it is necessary to transfer big amounts of CAD/CAM data sets.

PMC allows you the easy and economical use of a centralized, secure and convenient extranet.
Global proceeding project teams benefits from worldwide shared access on common data.

PMC needs no extensive software installation. A computer with an internet connection is sufficient . Any support of your system administrator is not necessary.

Don't worry about data loss or data robbery. 128bit SSL-encryption and automated backups protect your data unreliably.
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The traffic of your data with PMC will be no longer complicated, slow and risky. Your team will work more efficiently.

The automated administration of different versions gives you an easy overview of your documents. So you are assured that all your partners are up to date at every time.

Even when you are not in your office, with an internet PC you have full access to your projects without any configuration difficulty.

You are able to create projects and administrate user permissions after a short time. Your project team can use the centralized, fast and secure storage of important documents in a worldwide available network .

You can assign special administration rights to your team members: On request your member are able to manage projects or user rights on their own. They assume the administration work and you gain more time for your original task.

Considering the latest aspects of ergonomics, you need no training period to handle the clear user interface. Your team partners are led by self explaining icons. Costs for trainings are no longer necessary.

PMC user interface is available in several languages . Therefore teamwork with foreign project partners is able without any problems.

The account of PMC is balanced monthly and is without any basic charge. price information

Registration is made online very fast without any IT-knowledge.
Without any delay you are able to use the various advantages of a professional extranet.

Price information

PMC will be executed on our server. Therefore you don't have to pay for software licenses. There is neither a long term contract nor high basic charge. The costs per month depend on your individual actual demand. You only have to pay for the used disk space and the volume of transmitted data.

(All prices are plus value added tax as prescribed by law)

Here you can register still today

Disk usage of one file (related to total consumption of all versions from one file) will be rounded up to complete Megabyte. Time for data storage will be rounded up to complete days. Payment will be calculated out of the product from disk usage (Megabyte) and storage time (days).

We will charge the rounded up amount of transfer volume to complete Megabyte (upload or download) to you.

References and case studies

Steinbeis Data Center, a company of Steinbeis Stiftung GmbH Germany:
‚We apply PMC with great success in our international projects.
In the past we had the problem, that our international partners and customers never had the released information at the right time on the right place at their disposal.
PMC provides the matching solution for the exchange of our information. PMC secures the success in our projects and increases the acceptance of our customers and finally shortens the project length.
For our company the product PMC supplied by global-work.net became one of the most important tools in our daily project work.'

Cryptographical System

Security of your confidential data as well as all transactions have priority at global-work.

Therefore we use in our PMC 128bit SSL-encryption for crypto graphical system. It is also used by finance institutes for electronic-banking. This system is secure and is supported by nearly all internet browsers.

The approved encryption technique permanently makes sure, that your data are reliable and protected filed on our system. In this case Thawte – the second largest Certification Authority worldwide - guarantees the authenticity of our servers and trustworthiness of Global-Work.net GmbH.

You will find further information about SSL on the sites of Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)

Automated Backup

In case of data loss due to technical errors and unpredictable environmental influences your data are safe.

A high secure computer centre protects against unauthorized data access and unintentional data loss. Battery buffered Systems (UPS) and several diesel generators for example are in standby mode to prevent data loss due to power-failure. Automated warfare facilities guarantees permanent security in case of fire.

Your entire data is stored on high quality hard disks. The disks are permanently checked and if required they get replaced immediately. Additionally is made a daily automated backup.

Failure Safety

Failure Safety of PMC is assured reliably, even under heavy load. We take advantage of fiber optics and high-performance networks of international carriers to ensure this. So the global accessibility is secure at any time.

In addition all our systems and applications are controlled 24 hours a day and 7 days a week by automated monitoring systems. In spite of this, we have a team of highly qualified IT-Experts which maintain and support the system.

Your advantage by the use of PMC

The complexity in the exchange of product data between customers and suppliers continuously increases.
What are the reasons for this complexity, which is driving up the efforts and finally the resulting costs for the communication between partners?

Customers are forced to develop their products in shorter sequences of time and to offer more and more variants of their product.
This causes more exchange of product data in a higher quality.
Huge data packets are sent around the globe.
So called standards like odette file transfer (OFTP), Engdat, ENX, ANX, are losing their importance in a global collaboration.
The internet is the unique available standard medium – with all advantages and disadvantages.

We aimed the high goal in our tool ‚project management center', to use this standard internet and at the same time let this medium become secure.
Why security risks?
Data sent by the internet may be read by third parties or big data packages can't be received by your partner caused by restriction of the internet providers, and finally by complicated client installations of data transfer software.
Our system excludes these sources of failure:

We are using SSL (secure socket layer) - the worldwide standard for data encoding, to avoid disuse by unlegitimated persons.
Security information

The data is placed on a protected portal, where you can put on data with file size up to one gigabyte.

We serve all current internet browsers, without any additional installation.

Another decisive advantage is carried by the system ergonomics. The clear structured user interface doesn't waste any time for training.
The user interface is available in many languages. The necessary features are self declaring, so that you will be able within shortest time to exchange your first data.
The predefined workflow of the system fulfills the task to inform all project partners of engineering changes. By this way, you will avoid the often cause of failure of missing communication in the cooperation of virtual teams.
You don't have to order any software, and you only have to pay the used memory and the data traffic Compared to country specific software you will save a lot of money.
Price information

When you decide to use an OFTP/Engdat software for the data exchange with European partners,
you have to spend more than 2000 € for software licenses and installation.
To make this service permanently available you need a separate server including an ISDN connection.
To learn how to handle such a software and the configuration would cause at least another 2000€ a year.

You better use PMC on every Computer with internet connection you want.
The handling of the clear and structured interface doesn't take any time: You and your partners will be guided through self- explaining symbols. You don't have to pay for training programs.