ABB company Ventyx has announced it has added powerful 3D visualisation with “hot-pointing” capabilities to its Ventyx LinkOne electronic parts catalogue and maintenance manual. With this new functionality, ABB states that Ventyx LinkOne WebView 3.7 “significantly enhances the ability of mining fleet maintenance managers and other end users to graphically traverse a product assembly – drilling down to a single component in seconds for faster, more accurate parts ordering.” At the same time, manufacturers of industrial machinery and other heavy equipment can deliver richer content in the LinkOne format to provide customers and distributors with a more advanced and differentiated parts management solution that can help more effectively drive aftermarket sales.

“LinkOne WebView 3.7 takes electronic parts management to the next level, providing customers with a cutting-edge way to minimise machine and business downtime, while empowering manufacturers to better distinguish themselves in the market and generate increased parts revenues,” said John Benders, Vice President of Asset-Intensive Industry Solutions at Ventyx. 3D models have traditionally been within the realm of engineering departments. With LinkOne, however, Ventyx puts 3D visualisation capabilities into the hands of maintenance and manufacturing professionals for advanced electronic parts ordering and management. The de facto standard for electronic parts catalogs in the mining industry, Ventyx LinkOne is employed by some of the world’s largest mining companies, as well as four of the world’s five largest heavy-equipment manufacturers to deliver electronic parts catalogs to their customers.

In addition to providing the ability to view and manipulate 3D models of parts and assemblies, LinkOne WebView 3.7 introduces hot-pointing capabilities when viewing a 3D product model. Hot-pointing automatically links components of a product model to their corresponding price lists to help ensure correct ordering. This feature also enables 3D models to be used as a tool for quickly navigating a LinkOne parts book or catalogue. Additionally, Ventyx LinkOne WebView now features out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft SharePoint, providing an alternate method for organisations to link content with a LinkOne book without republishing the original book. Once the association between SharePoint documents and LinkOne books is established, the SharePoint document will appear as an additional item within the LinkOne table of contents at the appropriate location. LinkOne WebView also introduces the ability for users to be notified directly when content in the electronic parts catalogue has been altered. With OEMs now maintaining large libraries of LinkOne books all over the world, the new release includes new documentation of tools to help ensure entire libraries are kept synchronised.