Paper puts the case for PDF-based collaboration

A new white paper identifies a workable and comprehensive solution to design collaboration in discrete manufacturing using the Adobe Portable Document Format.

Cyon Research Corp has published a white paper identifying a workable and comprehensive solution to design collaboration in discrete manufacturing using the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

The paper, titled "The Adobe solution for design collaboration and discrete manufacturing", addresses five key questions with regard to the Adobe solution for design collaboration and discrete manufacturing.

Automation of activities in manufacturing has led to a diversity of digital document formats, each requiring its own software to be read and marked-up for editing.

The complexities of this issue threaten to outweigh the productivity gains attained by the automation.

Digital documents offer unprecedented opportunities for better communication, reducing time and cost-but the document diversity has been an obstacle.

"Adobe's approach to design collaboration and discrete manufacturing is a comprehensive and workable solution that addresses the complete manufacturing digital-data workflow problem", said Brad Holtz, Cyon Research's president and CEO.

"It is based on the familiar and widely accepted Adobe PDF, recently enhanced to address many manufacturing-specific needs, such as drawing layers, multiple formats within a single package, security, markup, document integrity, display of 3D models, and more".

The Adobe approach offers a path from today's paper-based workflows to a more streamlined and profitable workflow based on intelligent documents.

Because Adobe PDF documents can be generated from virtually any program available today, it becomes a simple process to combine multiple documents, each utilising different file formats, into a single package.

This solution complements existing engineering software tools, making them more productive by extending their reach across the enterprise.

This white paper is available free-of-charge from the Cyon Research website.

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