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News Release from: Synergis Software | Subject: Adept document management softwar
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 27 March 2008
Document software improves IP access
FCI uses Adept to manage product design information including drawings, parts lists, operation sheets as well as general business and ISO-certified marketing documents.
Fluid Components International (FCI) has replaced its electronic flat file system with Adept document management software from Synergis Software to get its engineering and business documentation under control so that it could bring its products to market faster "One of our key challenges is reducing the time to market for new products", Eric Wible, Director of Engineering at FCI said
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 3 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Our ability to design, develop and produce quality instrumentation is a key factor to growth in our current markets as well as expanding into new markets".
"This process is directly tied to our internal capability to control and easily find our intellectual property and proprietary information, which is primarily in the form of engineering documentation".
Karyn Dawes, Document Management Supervisor at FCI, headed up the evaluation process.
Because FCI's Aerospace Division had standardised on SolidWorks design software and its Industrial Division was migrating to SolidWorks from AutoCAD, compatibility with both platforms was important.
The company required a powerful database, document security, searching, viewing and reporting capabilities.
Before implementation, Dawes attended the Administrator Training course at Synergis' headquarters and later scheduled nearly 100 others to be trained in two days.
"Initially, we brought 20 years of data and more than 50,000 records into Adept".
"What I learned from that effort is that it's better to implement a new system in stages and bring in only clean electronic data first", Dawes said.
FCI uses Adept to manage product design information including drawings, parts lists, operation sheets as well as general business and ISO-certified marketing documents.
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