Who Uses EDM?

Who Benefits from Engineering Document Management?

Mechanical Engineers have specific requirements for Engineering Document Management. Today's mechanical design environment operates at a pace never envisioned a few short years ago. Customers reward companies that find innovative ways to bring products to market quickly. As the pace of design accelerates, companies are under pressure to make information available to any design team member, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and around the globe. Increasingly, mechanical design could be controlled electronically via the Internet to speed collaboration and avoid political and geographical borders. The mechanical design team needs a web-based solution.

The conclusion is inescapable: we need a document management solution that uses the reach of the Internet to let the whole design team work together as if they were in the same building. Without document control to assure that design, prototyping and manufacturing processes run smoothly an organization will never be as efficient as it should be. Enable your design team to all work from the same information.

Solution for AEC Professionals

You have specific requirements for Document Management. You often modify designs many times during the lifecycle of a project so reliable versioning and approval processes are important. Comparing current versions with previous versions to make sure changes were made correctly is essential to smooth project management. Collaborative project efforts require the proper management of X-References. X-Ref coordination is becoming more important since many AEC firms are now using this powerful feature in AutoCAD and Solidworks.

Another important feature for AEC firms is tight integration into AutoCAD title blocks to make sure that information is updated automatically. Revision numbers, project numbers, authors, drawing names, and a wide range of other important data can be effortlessly linked to a title block within the drawing and used as file information visible to the design team outside of the drawing. Our EDM solutions address all these concerns. Every kind of document from any design team member can be integrated into a simple and concise project documentation framework.

Solution for Facilities Management Professionals

Today's facilities managers need to manage constant change. Market pressures demand ongoing space consolidation, constant plant modifications, outsourcing, increasing volumes and strict regulatory compliances. As assets increase and resources decrease, and as more and faster access is demanded of management systems, facilities managers are looking for solutions that can integrate documentation generated from their existing systems. Equally important, companies are seeking enterprise solutions that allow managers from different locations to quickly and easily access facilities information as they would if they were in the same office.

Fast access to manufacturing facilities information helps to shorten product line interruptions, enforce safety standards, lower change orders, and provides the opportunity to use production downtime much more efficiently. In turn, it also enables facility managers, plant engineers and outside contractors to collaborate much more efficiently.

Cyco Software, the creators of AutoManager TeamWork and AutoManager Meridian made several recent strategic partnerships with key industry players that will provide a complete document management solution. Cyco Software’s teaming with Archibus Software will offer a total Infrastructure Maintenance and Document Management solution to help organizations reduce asset management costs. Another partnership is with Isah ERP resulting in a competitive BOM module and ERP integration for AutoManager Meridian. This has created a manufacturing market solution with more interoperability and business process improvements than any other file management solution available in the market today or in the foreseeable future.

Solution for Project Management Professionals

Project managers can make informed decisions with all relevant documents stored and accessible. Keeping close tabs on who did what to what is simple with document management features that provide check-in/check-out procedures, auditing and tracking, and version control. Wizard-type, easily customizable, business workflow rules push documents where they need to go according to standard procedures.

Web-based application to bring team members from the far reaches of the globe together in a virtual environment to complete projects on time and within budget.