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Five Lessons we’ve learned about PDM for SMEs

Here are five lessons we’ve learned helping small- and medium-sized design and manufacturing organizations (SMEs) with their PDM solutions.  Serve thyself, pilgrim.  If you have fewer than 50 or designers, chances are that you want your team to manage their own data without dedicated, enterprise PLM resources. It’s monstrously cumbersome for a small organization to roll out the big artillery like Airbus or Toyota does with Team Center or Windchill or Enovia. The good news is that your teams...

Kenesto Powers University of Waterloo Robotics Team’s Success

Kenesto, a leading provider of cloud-based collaboration and documents management solutions, has played a pivotal role in supporting the University of Waterloo Robotics Team (UWRT) in their  Pursuit of university rover challenge. The team, which participates in The University Rover Challenge (URC) is the world's premier robotics competition for college students. Held annually in the desert of southern Utah in the United States, URC challenges student teams to design and build the next...

Kenesto Powers Yellow Jacket Space Program’s Celestial Ambitions

Yellow Jacket Space Program, a prestigious student team at Georgia Tech, has found a powerful ally in Kenesto for its CAD and file management needs. This collaboration has significantly enhanced the program's efficiency and productivity, propelling its ambitious mission to send a liquid-fueled rocket to space. Before implementing Kenesto, the team relied on Solidworks files stored in a SharePoint drive, which lacked version control and file checkout capabilities. This hindered their ability to...

Kenesto Partners with CU Boulder Hyperloop for Collaborative Engineering Success

Kenesto is proud to announce its sponsorship of CU Hyperloop, a student-led engineering team from the University of Colorado Boulder. CU Hyperloop is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of transportation technology. CU Hyperloop understands the importance of efficient collaboration, especially when dealing with intricate CAD designs. As their Chief Engineer, Mateo Medelin, explains, "Over the last several years, we've tried out different ways of sharing CAD files." Medelin continues, outlining...

University of Toronto Formula Racing team wins with Kenesto

We're excited to share the news that The University of Toronto Formula Racing Team (UTFR) has chosen to renew their partnership with Kenesto for another year! UTFR is a highly motivated group of engineering students dedicated to designing, building, and competing with a Formula SAE race car. Kelvin Cao, Drivetrain Lead at UTFR reports below his experience with Kenesto, showcasing how our solution empowers his team to achieve remarkable results. "After the discontinuation of GrabCAD, UTFR faced...

Exclusive Interview: Revolutionize Your Design Workflow with Kenesto!

In an interview earlier this month with India’s DailyCADCAM, Mr. Tom Greaves, COO of Kenesto, dives into the challenges faced by design professionals and how Kenesto's innovative solutions provide value. Discover how Kenesto: Simplifies document management for CAD engineers Reduces costs and increases efficiency Offers secure collaboration for design teams Ready to unlock the full potential of your design workflow? Read the full interview here.  Kenesto is represented in India by Impetus...

Kenesto Sponsors UCI Rocket Project – Solids!

Kenesto is proud to sponsor UCI's (University of California, Irvine) highly selective Rocket Project - Solids, dedicated to building solid-propellant rockets. Their mission is twofold: Explore aerospace through international competitions. Leave a legacy of stable, high-performance rockets. Current Challenges UCI Challenges: Spaceport America cup: - Apogee of 10,000 feet - Dual redundance avionics system - Commercial solid propellant M-RATED motor Space dynamics laboratory payload challenge: -...

Stony Brook Motorsports Races to Victory with Kenesto’s Cloud-Based PDM Solution

  Kenesto Proudly Supports the Future of Engineering: A Stony Brook Motorsports Team Success Story!  At Kenesto, we're passionate about empowering the next generation of engineers. That's why we're thrilled to celebrate the incredible achievements of Baja SAE racing team Stony Brook Motorsports. This dedicated group of students uses Kenesto's cloud-based PDM solution to streamline their design, fabrication, and testing processes. This allows them to focus on what matters most: bringing their...

Kenesto Empowers UTAT’s Innovative Spirit in Aerospace Design

Kenesto is proud to sponsor UTAT, the University of Toronto's powerhouse student-led engineering team dedicated to fostering future leaders and innovators in aerospace. With over 200 passionate members, UTAT's UAS division stands out as a force to be reckoned with, combining aeronautics and robotics to build cutting-edge unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). From wildfires to urban air mobility, UTAT tackles ambitious challenges with unwavering dedication. This year, they're conquering the skies...

How fast is the Kenesto Drive?

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, time is of the essence. We crave efficiency, speed, and seamless workflow experiences. From our tests on a 220MB SolidWorks file with 154 components, we found the following file open times. The tests were executed with consumer-grade internet, approximately 200Mb/s down, 20Mb/s up. Nothing beats opening a file from your local hard drive.  This works well for the lone operator who doesn’t have to share any data until the project is completed and for whom...
 

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What is Kenesto?

Kenesto is a robust cloud-based product document management system.

Kenesto was designed by engineers for engineers and designers, delivering a robust solution for small- and medium-sized companies, especially those working in a diverse ecosystem with many types of documents. With the Kenesto Drive service on a PC, CAD and other applications work directly with the cloud documents just like a local drive, always ensuring access to the most current document. Kenesto provides the necessary tools needed to easily share, view, collaborate with external users, manage permissions, create versions, and lock documents for day-to-day work. Kenesto provides engineers and designers the power, simplicity, and flexibility beyond consumer cloud storage solutions such as Dropbox, and a great alternative to complex and expensive traditional PDM systems.

“Kenesto stands out as a leader in forward-thinking online engineering data management. We now have a secure, cloud-based solution for product document management, collaboration and version control, accessible from wherever we are in the world. On top of that, the Kenesto Drive feature allows our team to interact with our data as though it were a mapped server drive.”

Josh Adams, PE, Founding Principal, Apollo Engineering Design Group

“Kenesto is more than a collaboration tool – it’s fully-customizable to work with your processes and designs, and it provides a virtual workspace to store, view, and manage your data.”

–Elise Moss, Senior Mechanical/Thermal Engineer

“Kenesto has helped us structure our communication flow so that all involved can see the status of every campaign at a glance.”

–Erin Howell, Digital Campaign Manager, MEDIATA

We've switched to Kenesto this year and it has been great. Enjoying no longer chasing around loose ends caused by mismatched master assembly versions.

kenesto customer on reddit.

 

I've been using Kenesto Drive with Solidworks for a while now. I like that its Cloud-based, secure access and automatic file locking prevent version control headaches.

kenesto customer on reddit.

We started using Kenesto Drive a few months ago and it's been really nice so far. Kenesto was really easy to set up and the web portal is really handy as well. For a team like ours with nearly 60 people working on different parts of the car, the benefits over Solidworks PDM are pretty clear.

Kenesto customer on Reddit.