A Certified Enterprise PDM Administrator (CEPA) is an individual who has successfully passed an advanced examination in SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM administration skills and is ready to manage a SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM implementation on behalf of his or her company.
Once SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM has been deployed within an organization, it must be properly maintained by qualified individuals who will be responsible for daily maintenance tasks and for any subsequent configuration changes. By assigning a CEPA qualified individual to this task, employers can be confident that their site is being managed by an individual with proven skills in administrating SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM.
Recommended Training:
SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM Administration Class
Basic knowledge of Project Management, gained through online training or by attending a local institute
Prerequisites Needed To Take The CEPA Exam:
Software: SOLIDWORKS 2012 (or later released version) and SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM 2012 (or later released version)
Access and Privileges checklist:
Login and Passwords to Archive and SQL Servers (including SQL sa password)
Internet access
Ability to create vault
Ability to add new users
Exam Description And Sample Exam
Exam Length: 2 Hours
Minimum Passing Grade: 70%
Re-test Policy: There is a minimum 30 day waiting period between every attempt of the CEPA exam. Also, a CEPA exam credit must be purchased for each exam attempt.
All candidates receive electronic certificates and personal listing on the CEPA directory* when they pass.
Standard SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM tools that may be covered in the exam include:
*This option must be set in your online certification account to show up in the directory.
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A Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert is someone who easily demonstrates the ability to utilize advanced functions and features to solve complex modeling challenges.
A CSWE will be well rounded in their knowledge of all areas of the SOLIDWORKS software. A CSWE is able to solve practically any modeling problem given to them, and is traditionally the go-to SOLIDWORKS user among their colleagues.
Exam Prerequisites:
To qualify to take the CSWE exam, a candidate must have:
Successfully passed the CSWP exam
Successfully passed at least four of the CSWP advanced topic exams (Sheet Metal, Weldments, Surfacing, Mold Tools, and Drawing Tools)
The CSWE exam is meant to be the most challenging exam we offer, so therefore no sample exam is provided. If the exam is not successfully passed, you will have to wait 180 days to retake the exam.
Exam Length: 3 hours
SolidWorks 2009 or later is required to take the exam
Minimum Passing grade: 85%
All candidates receive electronic certificates, business card logos and personal listing on CSWP directory* when they pass.
Exam may feature hands-on challenges in some of these areas:
Lofts
Sweeps
In-context assembly changes
Imported part modification
Belts and chains
Sketch blocks
Multi-bodies
In-context assembly design
Sketch pictures
Spring modeling
Move/Copy bodies
Split tool
*This option must be set in your online certification account to show up in the directory
SOLIDWORKS Extended Subscription Services (ESS) builds upon Standard Subscription to provide you with addition resources, improved access and customised processes that mean the toughest business and design challenges. If your company has design or engineering teams in multiple locations, uses complex business or engineering processes, or employs mission-critical designs where time-to-market is crucial, Extended Subscription Services is the ideal solution. Working together, SOLID Applications Limited and Dassault Systéms SOLIDWORKS Corp. will provide support services that empower your designers and engineers to work more efficiently and productively, helping your company to maintain a competitive edge. With SOLIDWORKS Extended Subscription Service, you gain a wealth of added features, including:
Designated Technical Support Engineer.
Arrange remote support sessions with your SOLIDWORKS Technical Account Manager.
Visit you twice per year at your primary location to optimise your use of SOLIDWORKS.
Visit you annually to present a customised presentation of the SOLIDWORKS 'What's New?' information.
Submit your software enhancement requests directly to SOLIDWORKS.
Designated SOLIDWORKS Technical Support Account Manager.
Prioritizing issues and managing their resolution.
Providing tailored customer service reports based on open issues and performance feedback.
Helping to coordinate DS SOLIDWORKS software enhancements.
Inclusion of a representative set of your data into SOLIDWORKS quality testing procedures.
Visit your primary office location once per year to support migration.
Rapid Response to issues.
Extended Subscription Service provides you with faster response and a higher level of service.
Live 24/5 technical support.
Around-the-clock support provided by SOLID Applications during normal office hours. For business -critical issues outside these hours, you can access the DS SOLIDWORKS Technical Support hotline 24 hours a day, five days a week.
Global Service Account Manager to coordinate global projects.
For companies with operation in different countries, a Global Service Account Manager (GSAM) will assist with the planning of strategic projects.
SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM (ePDM) migration planning.
ESS Customers have access to the experience of the SOLIDWORKS and ePDM Support team.
Free online CSWA / CSWP certification.
Your SOLIDWORKS users are able to enter the prestigious Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate and Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional examinations. These qualifications allow engineers and designers to prove their level of proficiency with SOLIDWORKS.
DS SOLIDWORKS Executive sponsorship.
To keep strong ties between your company and SOLIDWORKS, you will be appointed a senior executive sponsor.
SOLIDWORKS World VIP Tickets.
Customer with ESS are eligible for two free VIP tickets for SOLIDWORKS World.
SOLID Applications Ltd. work with the UK's leading independent IT finance provider, to give our customers a range of flexible, tailored finance solutions so that you can get the technology you need today, and upgrade easily in the future. Please contact us for a free no obligation quotation.
There are many reasons to choose finance, including:
By making equal monthly payments over the duration of the finance agreement, you can spread payments over the useful life of your equipment, rather than having to find the capital up front. This way, you can generate instant return on investment.
Monthly payments qualify as a trading expense and are therefore tax deductible.
You can expand or upgrade systems as the need arises without Systems Change Option, often without an increase in monthly payments.
As well as hardware, finance will fund software, support, training and other intangibles that are integral to any IT acquisition.
Our finance solutions have no effect on your other borrowing options.
Most of our finance options do not require you to pledge personal or company assets – the equipment itself is its own source of security.
IT finance is easy. Once a proposal is submitted and approved, all we need is for you to sign one contract.
Because we use an independent finance company, you can choose a combination of technologies and avoid being tied in to any one supplier.
In addition to cheque, bacs or finance payments SOLID Applications Ltd can accept your payment via credit or debit card. This service is offered to all customers and is aimed at increasing customer convenience.
We can accept payments from the following major cards: Visa, Visa Debit, Visa Electron, MasterCard, Maestro and JCB.
At SOLID Applications, one of our main priorities is to ensure our customers make the most of their investment in both the PLM solution, and us. We provide our customers with our unique SAFe Service. The SAFe is an annual site agreement delivering high quality support services to ensure our customers realise the full potential of systems and users.
Many suppliers view customer support as a reactive service whose role is to respond to problems as they arise, but we believe that it needs to be much more than this if you are to gain the very best results from your SOLID Applications solution.
The SAFe will give our customers the proactive approach to developing and growing with the PLM solution installed, to ensure that return on investment is achieved in the shortest possible timescale.
The SAFe contains products and services that have been developed over many years by our Applications Engineers in conjunction with our customers to provide benefits over and above our standard support services “out of the box”.
Our helpdesk is managed by experienced engineers covering all software disciplines implemented by SOLID Applications. With more than 60 man years experience of supporting and implementing PLM products, our helpdesk engineers are able to draw from experience and search a vast knowledge base to answer any questions our customers have.
Taking telephone support to the next level, we are able to take our customers to a web session, where we can take over or monitor a customers’ screen so that we can visualise the problem and fix within a shorter period of time, enhancing the productivity of our customer by fixing issues quicker.
SOLID Applications implemented a customer support IT system that enables us to monitor all calls logged, the time to resolve and other management data. This also helps us to understand which customer and users would benefit from additional training to enhance their productivity.
Although customers have access to the full range of skills and expertise available from the Applications Team, to ensure we deliver the most effective support possible, a specific Applications Engineer from within the team is assigned with primary responsibility for each customer site. This Applications Engineer is responsible for pro-actively supporting the customers’ installation.
The Applications Engineer will proactively visit each site for a complete review of your progress through discussions with both the system users and the management responsible for the system.
Productivity Testing
Best Practice Day