Value Components
Accelerate user adoption and productivity
Smarter widgets faster
What are Value Components?
Every company is unique, so are their product development processes. While standard solutions in 3DEXPERIENCE work well for many, others require more tailored functionality. That’s why Dassault Systèmes made it possible to add apps of type widgets that integrate seamlessly into the 3DEXPERIENCE ecosystem.
The widget studio, part of Value Components portfolio, takes this flexibility to the next level. With an intuitive user interface, it allows administrators to easily design and share tailored widgets directly within the platform, no need for costly or complex custom code. Fully documented and supported by Dassault Systèmes, widgets are upgrade-safe, reducing ongoing maintenance and risk. This smart approach significantly lowers lead time and cost while enhancing adoption across diverse user groups.
Empower your teams, streamline processes, and drive digital transformation, without the typical barriers of traditional PLM customization.
What can you do with Value Components?
Value Components is a comprehensive set of configurable UI components designed specifically for creating tailored views within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Carefully developed to ensure seamless integration, these components are the result of over 20 years of evolution and proven functionality offering all the building blocks needed to configure most additional solutions your users may require.
Compatible with any type of platform setup, you can use Value Components to create rich and optimized views for your legacy 3DSPACE on-premise installation, build custom 3DDASHBOARD widgets on the DS Cloud, or set up standalone, streamlined applications to make PLM data accessible for additional user groups.
Widget Studio
Create your own tailored 3DEXPERIENCE interfaces with zero coding using TECHNIA’s Widget Studio. Design, configure, and deploy upgrade-safe widgets personalized to your unique user needs, boosting efficiency and adoption. Easily build and share widgets online through the Studio UI, enabling fast iteration and seamless collaboration with key users.
TECHNIA Store
Accelerate widget creation with a built-in library of packaged configurations tailored to real business use cases. Instead of starting from scratch, base your solutions on experience-driven templates to quickly build the app you need. No code required – just import, adjust, and deliver value faster across your platform.
Rich Tables
Display and interact with any PLM data – from products and documents to change actions and assigned tasks – in a structured or flat, configurable view. Tables play a central role in most PLM apps, allowing users to navigate and combine data from different domains within a single, clear interface tailored to their needs.
Forms
Use a consistent, intuitive interface to view, create, or edit data across one or multiple domains. Validate, autocomplete, and combine fields efficiently – enabling users to capture complex, connected information in a single step without code. This improves data quality, accelerates workflows, and enhances the overall user experience.
Visual Charts & KPIs
Quickly translate data into insights with configurable chart types, including pie, bar, and line graphs. Leverage drill-down filtering and visualize key trends – insight at a glance – helping users make better decisions, faster.
Parameterized Search
Help users find the right data faster with parameter-driven, configurable search functionality. Input fields and result tables can be tailored to specific users, roles, or products – ensuring relevant, accurate results. Effective search promotes reuse and helps avoid costly part duplication – a common challenge in PLM environments.
Workflow
Streamline and govern your processes with configurable workflows that adapt to your business needs. Visualize progress, automate task flows, and guide users through each step with notifications, checklists, and task-specific views. Support group assignments, track history, and maintain full control – whether workflows are fixed or dynamically driven.
File Management
Start or finish working with files with a single click. Keep track of your ongoing work and use quick actions to resume editing, upload changes, or discard your modifications. Property transfer enables up-to-date office footers with actual PLM data (e.g. state , owner). File package download provides single-click efficiency for exporting filtered files from full structures, such as all drawings within a product or project.
Why use Value Components?
Value Components are designed to enhance user productivity, accelerate system adoption, and reduce total cost of ownership by providing configurable, process-independent UI components that optimize workflows and eliminate the need for costly customizations.
Enable users to configure their workspaces and visualize data from multiple sources in a single, tailored view. By streamlining access to information and reducing time spent on non-value-adding tasks, Value Components help increase the efficiency of design and engineering processes.
Replace hard-to-maintain custom code with upgrade-safe, configurable UIs – speeding up deployment and ensuring long-term stability on your tailored 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
User resistance is a leading reason PLM projects fail, often due to reliance on in-house tools that are difficult to replace. Deliver familiar, user-friendly experiences within 3DEXPERIENCE, without custom code. This streamlines adoption, enhances workflows, and reduces training needs.
Support your full PLM journey – from 3DSPACE and 3DDASHBOARD to the cloud – with one solution under a single license, setting your project up for success.
Minimize the need for complex customizations with configurable, upgrade-safe UI elements available out of the box. This reduces development effort, lowers maintenance overhead, and eliminates costly fixes during platform upgrades, helping you control total cost of ownership while accelerating delivery.
Most popular uses for Value Components
Automotive
In automotive design and engineering, Value Components are used to manage complex product structures, such as EBOMs and MBOMS (engineering and manufacturing bills of materials). Tools like the XBOM Manager help reconfigure engineering builds into manufacturing builds efficiently. Additionally, Value Components ensure compliance with industry standards and enables collaboration between OEMs and suppliers by providing intuitive user interfaces and streamlined workflows.
Aerospace and defense
Aerospace companies rely on Value Components when handling large-scale assemblies and to ensure data integrity across global teams. Features like the Structure Browser allow users to navigate and edit intricate structures quickly, while Graphic Reporting provides immersive visualizations for better decision-making. These capabilities enhance traceability and reduce errors in design validation processes.
Industrial equipment
For manufacturers of industrial equipment, Value Components optimizes PLM workflows by providing tailored UI configurations for tasks like change management and document control. The File Manager simplifies document handling, ensuring quick access to the latest revisions, while inline collaboration tools improve communication between engineering and production teams.
High-tech
Electronics manufacturers use Value Components to integrate MCAD (mechanical computer-aided design) systems with ENOVIA through the MCAD Optimizer, ensuring seamless collaboration between mechanical and electronic design teams. This integration reduces errors in component selection and assembly processes while enhancing overall system performance.
Energy, process, and utilities
Value Components is used when managing complex infrastructure projects by providing tools for data visualization and process optimization. The Grid Browser enables users to aggregate and edit complex data relationships in a single view, improving efficiency in project management.
Can OOTB Be Tailored to Your Needs?
As the PLM landscape evolves, more companies are embracing Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) strategies and shifting to the cloud. These trends aim to reduce risk, simplify upgrades, and accelerate deployment. But with them comes a common misconception that flexibility and adaptability must be sacrificed.
Some interpret OOTB and cloud-first approaches as limitations, thinking they can no longer tailor the system to their business needs. It’s like buying a smartphone but refusing to install apps for fear of “breaking” something.
In reality, the goal isn’t to restrict you – it’s to help you innovate more safely. TECHNIA’s Value Components have supported 150+ companies and over 300,000 users, enabling them to configure applications, user interfaces, and workflows to fit their specific processes – all without custom code or risking upgrade compatibility.
Whether you’re working on-premise or in the cloud, Value Components let you stay agile, aligned with best practices, and fully in control of your PLM experience.
How to buy Value Components
Looking to purchase Value Components licenses? Want to see a demo to understand what Value Components can do? Or do you need to speak to an expert before you can make your decision?
Value Components comes in all shapes and sizes. We’re here to make sure that you’re getting the right software package for your team.
Need help with Value Components?
Anders Axelsson and team have spent the last 20 years working together with clients to develop solutions that perfectly compliment the Dassault Systèmes portfolio. Reach out for a free consultation today.
