excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% Aircraft industry embraces EDM The integration... Summary: Imaging World, March 3rd, 1997 Aircraft industry embraces EDM. The integration of document management and engineering drawings is attaining a firm foothold in the manufacturing market. A critical sector within the manufacturing sphere is the aircraft industry. The following case studies explore the use of document management applications by Raytheon Corporate Jet and Learjet. Raytheon officials... 95% Learjet leads in aircraft maintenance innovati... Summary: Learjet leads in aircraft maintenance innovation. A NEW WAY OF HANDLING MAINTENANCE HELPS KEEP LEARJET IN THE AIR AND OUT OF THE HANGAR Because every minute costs when a corporate aircraft sits on the ground, Learjet (Wichita, KS) has created the Learjet Active Maintenance Publishing System (LAMPS) to shave time off of maintenance and keep aircraft where it belongs--in the air. Hyperlinking... 92% 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. 88% As islands of document automation collide, engi Summary: Those systems focus on managing the company's bill of materials, product configuration and engineering change orders. There is a close integration between the PDM system and the company's ERP/MRP system that manages the production and inventory control process. The systems have a tight integration with the ERP/MRP system. It's the need to manage the many drawings and procedure and specification... 88% Kalthoff finds PDM buyers reaching for their w... Summary: Kalthoff's research also shows an increasing number of companies in the later stages of system evaluation, a key indicator of the market's potential for growth. The buying index research data was compiled to identify active purchasing initiatives and buying cycle phases for PDM and EDMS software. Results showed that 423 sites reported having a PDM or EDMS purchasing initiative underway. Of the... 87% 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,... 86% 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... 85% 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... 85% Deal Makers Summary: An agreement between Diamond Head (Richardson, TX) and DynCorp (Reston, VA) will combine IT provider DynCorp's Enterprize imaging and object management software with Diamond Head's ImageBasic component tools. Alliance brings CD-R storage to NT. Both products are optimized for the NT platform. "We were impressed with Smart Storage's position in the CD storage marketplace.". BancTec working in... 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. 82% 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. 81% 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. 81% Lotus introduces new Web-enabled EDM product ... Summary: Web-enabled EDM product. Lotus Development (Cambridge, MA) will unveil Domino. Based on the Lotus Domino interactive Web server, Domino. According to Linda Myers-Tierney of Myers-Tierney and Associates (Carlisle, MA), Domino is expected to help Lotus reposition Notes for the Web. Lotus, she says, is leveraging Domino's Web capabilities to provide an out-of-the-box, Web-enabled EDM product on... 80% 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... 80% 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% The Ohio Department of Transportation has sign... Summary: It's added more than 70 licenses to its installation. Drawings, schematics and documentation will be available instantly online to employees on the factory floor. Marathon Oil Company (Houston) has purchased Cimage's (Irvine, CA) document management software and supporting services. The county encompasses 1,300 square miles serving 1.6 million residents. Page, drawing, roll film and color... 77% Bentley finds a $95 million EDM Summary: Bentley finds a $95 million EDM. Its latest offering, TeamMate, integrates engineering and document workflow management with MicroStation software. Positioning its products against Intergraph's DM2 line, MicroStation is targeting the smaller installations. According to Dave Widdoes, product manager, MicroStation line scales from teams of five to 10 seats, up to tens of thousands of users.... 70% Dates & Times SIGCAT '97, May 18 to May 22 at ... Summary: Imaging World, May 5th, 1997 Dates & Times. SIGCAT '97, May 18 to May 22 at the. Hyatt Regency in Reston, VA. Sunday, May 18: Tutorials 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, May 19: Plenary session 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.;. sessions 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.;. exhibition setup 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; exhibitor reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 20: Sessions 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.;. ... 70% CD-R media a global solution; read, write and ... Summary: If the system doesn't work, is it the hard drive, the recording software or the media? The same set of test files and the same procedures were used in recording each disc. All the files recorded successfully, and the test set of files also was readable. Not only did all the recorders work on all the media, but surprisingly, the discs were readable in all the CD-ROM drives used. Even for those... 69% IWTopCust96 Summary: Small county conquers big info management problems. Customer: Polk County, Oregon Vendor: Diamond Head Software (Richardson, TX) Polk County--with a population of just 55,000--has found big ways to save money and manage information. New solutions have been rolled out to assist other departments.--Murray Giesbrecht, Polk County IS manager. Imaging system benefits civil servants.
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