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% 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% 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. 92% 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% 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... 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% 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% 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... 88% Value added workshops Summary: Imaging World, September 1st, 1996 Free To All Attendees. Monday, September 30. Healthcare/Medical: Managing the electronic patient record. No area of document management is expanding more rapidly. 9:00-10:30 a.m. Crossing vertical industry boundaries with document-centric information management. 87% 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... 87% 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 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. 87% 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. 87% 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. 86% 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... 86% 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... 86% Upping the ante in the groupware war Lotus arm... Summary: Lotus arms itself with Domino. Lotus positions Notes as infrastructure, combining a development environment with applications and electronic messaging. A majority of Notes users say they use Notes to manage documents, yet it has not technically been considered a document manager. Notes has a repository to hold documents, yet it lacks some key features required of document managers. New Lotus EDM... 85% Better products from better processes Critica... Summary: Critical for manufacturing success, ISO 9000 quality. Although the International Standards Organization (ISO) publishes thousands of standards, the 1987 publication of the five documents in the ISO 9000 series (ISO 9000-1, ISO 9001, ISO 9002, ISO 9003 and ISO 9004-1) is increasingly impacting the standardization of quality practices worldwide. The ISO 9000 standards are not product standards. ... 84% Defining a growth path the key to successful ... Summary: Defining a growth path: the key to successful capture. By Dave Wood The fourth truth of document capture is the importance of growth path. In that environment, a reliable, secure growth path is one of the most important requirements in purchasing a system. Ensuring a growth path. Adherence to standards is perhaps the most important of the growth path elements. 84% Imaging vendors join SAP to grab worldwide mark Summary: Imaging vendors join SAP to grab worldwide marketshare. FileNet (Costa Mesa), whose Document Warehouse product has been SAP certified for nearly two years, has just announced a special version--FileNet Document Warehouse for SAP for NT. With it, users can capture, process and store document images from R/3 business applications. The NT support brings the abilities of a powerful platform for...
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