Every engineering team says their PDM is the single source of truth, but the moment real work starts, the drift begins. A drawing gets exported for a review and marked up outside the vault, a change report gets written against a local copy, or a supplier receives a file that gets a new revision two days later. The PDM still holds the official record, but the work happening around it slowly pulls away from it, and nobody notices until a decision gets made on stale data.
The problem is not the PDM itself but the tools engineers use around it, since review tools, comparison tools, documentation tools, and AI tools typically have no connection to the vault.
Instead of pulling files out of your PDM to work on them, bananaz syncs with your PDM directly and works inside its structure. bananaz integrates natively with SolidWorks PDM, Windchill, and Teamcenter, so your team keeps designing and managing data exactly as they do today while bananaz layers analysis, comparison, and review on top of the vault you already trust.
Synced on Every Check-In
bananaz connects to your PDM and stays current automatically. When an engineer checks in a new version, bananaz sees it, and when a design moves from In Review to Approved to Released, bananaz knows the workflow state and ties it to the exact geometry and drawing that existed at that moment.
There is no manual upload step where someone has to remember to push the latest version, which means there is no gap where the AI is analyzing last week's file. The version bananaz works on is the version your PDM says is current, always.
Full Version Context, Not Isolated Files
Because bananaz reads the PDM rather than individual exports, it understands each part in context, including its revision history, its assembly relationships, and where it sits in the approval workflow. When it compares revisions, it compares the actual released versions in your vault, and when it generates a change report or an inspection sheet, the artifact references the correct revision at the correct workflow state.
This is what makes the difference between an AI tool that analyzes a file and an agentic layer that understands your data. A file has no history, but a part in your PDM has all of it.
Nothing Drifts
Every review, comment, markup, and generated artifact in bananaz stays tied to the revision it was made against, so feedback never floats loose from its version, reports never reference a file that has since changed, and nobody approves against a stale copy without knowing it.
The practical effect is that your PDM stops being the official record that everyone works around and becomes the record that everything actually runs through. The single source of truth stays single because the tools around it stop creating copies.
Why It Matters
Engineering data problems rarely announce themselves, showing up later as a part machined to the wrong revision, a supplier quoting an outdated drawing, or a review approved against geometry that had already changed. Each one traces back to the same root cause, which is work that happened outside the source of truth.
By syncing directly with your PDM and keeping every piece of work tied to its revision and workflow state, bananaz closes the gap where drift happens. Your PDM stays the single source of truth, not just in policy but in practice.
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