excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% 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. 91% 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... 91% 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. 91% 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... 90% 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,... 89% 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. 89% 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... 89% 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% 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... 88% 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% The Buzz 4-7-97 Summary: Joe says "They took a whole bunch of products, kluged them together and called it a suite. That doesn't work with a bunch of people who work with each other infrequently." * On extranets--"The momentum is picking up now that people know what they are." Comment one: "Duh." Comment two: The problem for FileNet is providing an integrated suite that really works. 86% 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... 86% Users rank their document management Summary: their document. management. on document management. Albright's vision of the document management future: "It will be even more important than it is now." Bisaccia has strong feelings about the future of document management: "Document management systems are the future of computing. 86% 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... 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% 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... 84% News Shorts Summary: The study found that both the quality of a scanned image and of the hardware affect purchasing decisions. FileNet stock at. to FileNet. Sherpa, Rosetta exchange vows. The FileNet agreement also provides the premiere COLD product, Greenbar. 84% JBIG: A New FAX Standard? Summary: Group IV, however, proved very popular for the storage of scanned document images. They have Group IV for binary and JPEG for multibit grayscale or color." "Thus the JBIG Alliance promotes three-bit scanning as the grayscale standard for document images. There are no image-processing libraries that you can buy today that work on grayscale images. There are no OCR engines that you can buy today... 83% Selecting an enterprise solution provider Summary: Selecting an enterprise solution provider. You get what you choose. So to avoid getting drilled, here are a few thoughts about choosing your enterprise solution provider. First, what is a solution provider? The primary qualification step is intended to be a first cut at separating who can and who cannot deliver an enterprise solution. 83% Allegria Software Summary: Allegria Software Inc., develops the most powerful and versatile enterprise-wide view and mark-up products available today. Their products provide an easy and cost-effective method to view, mark-up and print sophisticated drawings, documents and images.
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