excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% The hidden costs of paper Summary: of paper. Manual methods of handling, storing and maintaining paper drawings are difficult, time-consuming, and costly because most information is still in paper form. * Paper is slow to distribute. * Paper gets lost. It is estimated that 5% to 7% of technical assets are lost or misfiled using manual procedures for handling paper drawings. 96% EDM/PDM Summary: Cost/benefit analysis. The costs associated with revising drawings are dependent on the method and solution used. * Increased value of paper drawings through integration with CAD and EDM/PDM tools. The overall benefit to organizations of scanning paper drawings is to increase the value of the company's most valued asset--information. The value of the drawings increases along with existing... 91% How to modernize your paper engineering drawings Summary: paper engineering drawings. CAD is the most productive environment in which to manage and modify engineering documents. Integrating these older designs into CAD has created two potential environments: hybrid raster CAD and vector CAD, which is the result of a raster-to-vector conversion. Substantial savings can also be realized in a managed revision process. CAD has already proven itself as a... 84% CD storage option for CAD users Summary: CD storage option for CAD users. Specifically, the software offers content-based access to data within a CAD drawing. As demonstrated to IW, file contents are indexed while they are written to a CD. Drawings and their related files can be retrieved based on their content. When files are retrieved from a CD burned via CAD2CD, the images can be viewed without requiring AutoCAD. 84% large-format capture Color brightens the sca... Summary: CalComp 800-932-1212 www.calcomp.SGI-scanners. Feeder scanners offer a maximum resolution up to 400 dpi. It is suitable for use in high volume production environments. 83% A do-it-yourself EDM solution Summary: "Our first objective was to make all of our drawings available on-line," continues Chase. But it's still a homegrown system. The purchasing department has begun to use the system. Right now everyone who has access to the electronic document vault can make their own copies. Not bad for a homegrown low-budget EDM system. 83% EDMPDM: An IW Summary: EDM--engineering document management--refers to managing all the documents and data used by engineers, while PDM--product data management, a newer manifestation--encompasses product-related data that originates with the engineer and makes links to other industrial systems. In mechanical engineering, for instance, where product data management is an essential part of the engineering database,... 82% Hot Products Summary: Mass production CD-ROM system. The MPS system is available for more than 25 Unix platforms. *. So much in store. Windows NT storage strategies are being formulated by most storage vendors. In addition to the storage options themselves, there is a wide range of storage management products is available. 79% Security and order for business-critical infor Summary: Security and order for business-critical information on intranets. All groups need a fast, accessible system, in addition to specialized requirements. The access and ease of intranets comes at a loss of security. Before intranets, a client needed different applications to access every different information system in the business. Few of those systems can handle more than one gigabyte of... 79% The CAD connection While EDMPDM vendors bring... Summary: While EDM/PDM vendors bring out systems designed. to work with a variety of CAD formats, CAD vendors. are building tools of their own. As the worlds of engineering and business merge, EDM/PDM vendors need to support the concepts that have evolved around the user. Many CAD vendors are building complete PDM/EDM systems, says Jenkins. 79% Intranet viewer does more for less Summary: Intranet viewer does more for less. Featuring the ability to make annotations on images, a new viewing plug-in for Netscape fills a specific void in the viewer market. ViewDirector Imaging Plug-In for Netscape ($50, $40 through October) provides fast display of engineering drawings and multi-page documents. The imaging plug-in provides fast viewing, zooming and printing of images on a company... 79% How PDM can fight competitive battles Summary: With the new system, electronic change requests are possible. Also new is electronic viewing and sign off. Users can query a document's status, view a drawing in progress, access detailed information about process changes, look at outstanding change requests, or query a part to see where it is used throughout Morton. "That makes it much easier for us to meet certification requirements." copy on... 78% EDM in the acid test Users grade the vendors ... Summary: Tom Marquez:. Tom Marquez is president of. No product is perfect." Currently, there are approximately 100 users. However, Adra is making significant improvements in this area. 78% EDMPDM Image files, unite! Summary: Raster images are composed of dots. Vector images (CAD drawings and models) are composed of objects defined by mathematical coordinates. That means you can edit both raster and vector simultaneously. So who needs vectorization? The answer is that with the new technology, you'll vectorize raster files only when you need to extract information from them. 77% IW World Class Solutions Summary: It's a valuable synergy of need,. Bank officials were so amazed when the project was finished in just two weeks that they decided to create a full-scale application for employee personnel records. Both projects use ImageBASIC from Diamond Head. Employees were justifiably excited when they learned that 10,000 documents could be stored on one CD. It took about two weeks for approval. 75% Software promotes dialog between designers, shop floor Summary: Software promotes dialog between designers, shop floor. AccraTronics benefits from view and markup capabilities. To make the transition successfully from a military to a commercial supplier, AccraTronics knew that it had to abandon its reliance on paper and adopt a computer-based solution that permitted a virtually real-time electronic dialog between designers and shop floor staff regarding all... 74% Streamlining corporate business processes Summary: Streamlining corporate business processes. By Roger K. Sullivan, VP of Marketing. Workflow empowers corporate professionals from a variety of industries to apply their expertise to design efficient business processes that can be used by anyone within their department or across the entire corporate enterprise. When approval for the PC is given within marketing, control of the workflow passes to... 73% Global thinking for an international bank Summary: An additional application was developed for the Shareholder Relations department to handle client inquiries more efficiently. That allows the customer service operator to view all pertinent documents for resolving inquiries while the shareholder is on the telephone. In less than a year, productivity increased 30% in client services and 25% in administration. of dollars; * 30% reduction in new... 72% Hot Products Summary: Next generation in image-processing toolkits. Sales force automation software. No pricing information was available at press time. The base price for a full-speed model is $14,000. CD-Recorders continue price descent. 72% Combined scanning and file format solutions required for care and feeding of hungry intranets Summary: How then does IS bridge the gap from paper to secure, internal electronic distribution? The result is a very compelling return on investment. Agencies have only begun to scan For government agencies, scanning to either the Internet or an internal intranet Web site is practically a matter of survival. Prior to the widespread use of the Internet, scanning documents was entirely focused on getting...
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