excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% 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... 97% 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... 96% 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. 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,... 91% 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. 91% 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% 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. 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% 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. 90% 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% 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. 89% 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... 89% 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. 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. 88% CaseForEDMS Summary: Building a business case for EDMS. The case report can explain the value and benefit that the imaging system will provide. soft-dollar savings. * What is the immediate benefit from the investment? Strategic benefits The strategic benefits section should also address non-tangible soft-dollar savings and benefits. 88% 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. 88% 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. 88% All Items Archive--the keystone of completing the change to image check processing Summary: Banking & Financial Services White Paper All Items Archive--the keystone of completing the change to image check processing. By Craig Sparkes, VP of Application Product Management. What is an All Items Archive? Prominent benefits from an All Items Archive. The most significant benefit from the All Items Archive is the immediate payoff of all past investments in image check processing systems and... 86% Archived microfilm represents a treasure trove of enterprise storage Summary: Once the record is located, it must be printed, copied and distributed. New methods unlock. microfilmed information. * Microfilm often varies slightly in resolution. * Jacketed fiche can contain separate images that are individually skewed. 86% ImagingExpo'96: A world-class conference schedu Summary: Monday, September 30. Monday, September 30. Monday, September 30. Monday, September 30. Monday, September 30.
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