excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 98% 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... 94% 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. 94% 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. 93% 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,... 92% Sun translates Rosetta's PDI solutions Summary: (Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 1997, 8:18 AM) Rosetta's product data imaging (PDI) solutions, PreView and Prepare, will address Sun's viewing and online markup needs. 92% 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% 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... 90% 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. 90% Allies market standards-based PDM software Summary: Allies market standards-based PDM software. Enterprise document management provider PC Docs (Burlington, MA) and Agile Software (San Jose) have agreed to work together to provide information management solutions for manufacturing and engineering organizations. Using ODMA standards, the partners-based approach will provide manufacturing customers with an integrated solution to control, manage... 90% The Buzz 5-5-97 Summary: If you only judge the company by its Wall Street performance, you would probably think it is headed for the dumpster. He deserves all the credit in the world for his accomplishments, but sometimes a company just cries out for new leadership. Just a passing thought: Maybe FileNet should buy Diamond Head Software. Connections vary, sometimes dramatically. So what's driving the EDM/PDM vendors these... 89% 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... 89% 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... 89% Allies market standards-based PDM software Summary: (Posted: Monday, April 7, 1997, 9:55 AM) Enterprise document management provider PC Docs (Burlington, MA) and Agile Software (San Jose) have agreed to work together to provide information management solutions for manufacturing and engineering organizations. 89% News Shorts 4-21-97 Summary: SOME NEW JERSEY TAX RECORDS.. A NEW SEMINAR SERIES. ADVANCING INDUSTRY SPECS. RECORD STORAGE WAREHOUSE ARSON VICTIM. IMAGINATION SOFTWARE PARTNERS. 89% 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... 89% 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. 89% Kalthoff finds PDM buyers reaching for their wallets Summary: (Posted: Thursday, April 3, 1997, 8:20 AM) According to the Kalthoff International (Cincinnati), purchasing initiatives for product data management (PDM) and engineering document management systems (EDMS) are underway in 47% of the industries that the company contacted. 89% Rosetta Technologies Summary: Since 1986, Rosetta Technologies has been the premier supplier of sophisticated software tools for viewing, interrogating, and communicating product design information regardless of the source. Rosetta's family of communication products is a de facto standard within the aerospace and defense industries. 88% Universal Systems Summary: Universal Systems Inc. (USI) is a leading provider of software, services and solutions for work process improvement spanning the extended electronic enterprise. USI's Documetrix WorkManager is our award-winning workflow product upon which we build our industry-specific applications. 88% 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....
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