excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% 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... 88% 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. 87% 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. 86% 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. 84% 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... 80% 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... 80% 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. 77% Vendors to visit at Imaging Expo '96 Summary: com.com/scanners. Available in 21-in. Microsystems Technology. and 21-in. 77% 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... 77% 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. 76% 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,... 76% Evolution in thinking about process redesign Summary: The design process must respect and involve the user. but also behavioral questions involving "What kind of lives and lifestyles do we want to design?" The process must involve the user. Enter vernacular design. Some of the best process designers used to be video game designers. 76% Raytheon shares data across the sea Electronic Summary: "We needed data in both locations. A system configured with user involvement. We had two gentlemen in the U.K. who were also involved--one engineer and one involved in system support." Currently, the system contains all the product and maintenance data on the Beech corporate jets. "Probably the first benefit was to have all data accessible from any point," Tos says. 76% News Shorts 3-17-97 Summary: Ricoh to market CD-RW hardware. Quickly adopting the new CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) media that can be re-recorded thousands of times, Ricoh (San Jose) has introduced the first CD-RW-capable CD-Recordable (CD-R) drive. Certifiably Artist VARs. Artist Graphics (St. There's an Acrobat in the file cabinet. 75% Deal_Maker Summary: One part J&B, one part Scan-Optics. Scan-Optics will offer its customers the payment-processing Transaction Management System (TMS)-a LAN-based network running Windows and NT. Scan-Optics has also recently signed an agreement with Wheb Systems (San Diego) to sell Wheb's Intelligent Forms Processing Software (IFPS) as part of its offerings. The bilateral agreement allows Wheb to market Scan-Optics... 75% 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. 75% 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. 74% Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Colorado Imaging Solutions Summary: Each server has a 26-GB RAID subsystem and 160 MB RAM. Records for educators already holding certification are on microfilm. The workstations all have 24 MB of RAM. There also have been reductions in the cost of temporary staff and office space. Collins grows, so will its document. 74% 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. 74% 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.
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