excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% 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. 92% 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... 91% 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... 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. 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. 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In mechanical engineering, for instance, where product data management is an essential part of the engineering database,... 84% 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. 81% Forms processing A market takes shape As the... Summary: In fact, the paper forms industry now refers to itself as the forms and systems industry. The forms automation marketplace. Pricing: the new differentiator. There is also an annual maintenance fee of 15% of system cost. Prices vary. 79% Hot Products Summary: Next generation in image-processing toolkits. Sales force automation software. No pricing information was available at press time. 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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. 75% The latest news in ... Scanners Trend Applicat... Summary: Speed. * Is the scanner simplex or duplex? For the OCR accuracy test, we scanned sets of test documents of varying weights, qualities and text sizes. All scanners provide default settings to simplify configuration. Some scanners can detect misfeeds and doubles. 75% 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... 70% 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... 69% 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. 69% CDR Software & Hardware Shopping Guide Summary: duplication time. The Trans/Corder was developed because of operator dissatisfaction with the time-consuming process of duplicating CD-ROM discs. CD-R duplication. and NT support. New CD-R writer software. 69% Hot Products 3-17-97 Summary: Office information manager. Office graphics made easy. How suite it is to develop for ActiveX. The suite offers image capture through ScanDirector, image enhancement with ScanFix and image viewing and document management through ViewDirector.. Web-based document sharing. 69% The new model of sharing and distributing information Summary: The new model of sharing and. distributing. The New Model of Document Distribution. Rather than relying on the costly, older model of print-then-distribute, network users can distribute, then print -- a new, inverted model that uses the speed and flexibility of electronic distribution while virtually eliminating the excessive waste of copying, sorting and delivering documents by hand. A New...
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