Xenex is a company that produces germ-zapping robots used in hospitals to disinfect rooms. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Texas. The company switched from using local CAD software to a cloud-based product data management system called GrabCAD Workbench. This allows easy sharing of designs with vendors and tracking of design changes. Using the cloud-based system avoids the need for dedicated IT resources and makes collaborative engineering and product data management risk-free, easy and convenient.

1. XENEX – CASE STUDY
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2. XENEX – THE COMPANY
• Xenex Disinfection Services LLC was founded in
2008 by epidemiologists Dr. Mark Stibich and Dr.
Julie Stachowiak both holding doctoral degrees
from Johns Hopkins and is headquartered in San
Antonio, Texas.
• Xenex has about 120 employees.
• The company has received a total of $54.3M in
funding from investors. The most recent funding
round was $25M in January 2015.
• The company’s product Xenex Germ-Zapping
Robot, launched in 2010, is now in use in more
than 250 U.S. hospitals.
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CEO Morris Miller

3. XENEX – THE CHANGE
• The company switched to using GrabCAD Workbench for version tracking and sharing product
designs with non-CAD users.
• Partner Spaces provided by the PDM solution made it really easy to share the drawings and
models with vendors.
• The design changes that are made are reflected in the partner space, so there is no need to send updated
drawings separately.
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4. XENEX – BENEFITS OF CLOUD-BASED PDM
• Using the cloud-based solution it is very helpful when the
collaborators, production and even the supply chain department can
view, measure and comment on the design without needing access to
CAD software.
• The provision for commenting while making a version update has
proved to be valuable to keep track of the motivation for the design
changes.
• There has also been instances when it was necessary to go back to an
earlier version of the design, which the cloud-based product data
management solutions makes really easy.
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5. XENEX – LESSONS LEARNED
• No dedicated IT department or servers maintained by the company are needed for doing collaborative
engineering and product data management.
• Cloud-based product data management solution was perceived risk free, easy, and convenient.
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6. Laura Nurmi, Tekes
laura.nurmi@tekes.fi
+358 29 505 5623
Jari Jussila, Tampere
University of Technology
jari.j.jussila@tut.fi
+358 40 717 8345
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