excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% 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... 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. 90% 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... 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. 89% 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% 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. 88% 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... 87% 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. 87% From rocket designs to mutant viruses Summary: The U.S. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC, Ft. The second phase entails processing classified technical reports and electronic input of documents. Another problem was the slow turnaround time on requests. "It has improved our turnaround time on document requests from five days to one ... One of the major costs of the old system was related to misfiling microfiche. You just don't have... 87% Managing a world of owners' manuals Summary: Managing a world of owners' manuals. "A few years ago, our primary job was producing printed pages. Today, printing is just a byproduct. Tweddle Litho produces maintenance and glove box manuals for two of the top U.S. automotive manufacturers. Tweddle plans to produce electronic maintenance manuals on CD-ROM in the near future. 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... 85% 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... 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% Hot Products 5-5-97 Summary: .. Colorful multifunctions. It also is designed to produce color charts, newsletters, envelopes and graphics. It outputs at 360 x 360 dpi and also reduces and enlarges images. LIMDOW MO,. double-picker mechanism. 83% Deal Makers 1-1-97 Summary: A partnership agreement between Bluebird Systems (Carlsbad, CA) and PeopleSoft (Pleasanton, CA) integrates the two companies' imaging software applications. Bluebird's Imageable client-server document imaging system integrated with PeopleSoft's software makes it possible to scan documents and index them for routing in standard workflow systems. Syquest says Nomai no mo'. The addition of the... 83% 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... 83% Sign on the digital line Summary: Sign on the digital line. We have the technology for digital signatures. And there is no assurance that the digital document being digitally signed hasn't been digitally altered after the image was applied. More technology can increase the validity of a digital signature. Silanis isn't the only vendor offering a digital signature product. 83% RAID: A necessary requirement for today's networking Summary: But what is RAID? What is the difference between RAID levels and RAID vendors? The confusion would be overwhelming. But what is RAID? The confusion would be overwhelming. 83% RAID plays role in strengthening nation's techn Summary: RAID plays role in strengthening nation's techno base. High-availability computing resources are critical at Argonne where almost half of the staff are scientists and engineers. Argonne's timely transfer of technology to industry plays a critical role in strengthening the nation's technology base. Storage challenge. Storage solution. 83% 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.
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