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Data, bibliographic and document management software
News Release from: Technodyne International | Subject: DAMC
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 25 March 2002
Document archive management facility
saves designs
Technodyne International has introduced its new document archive management facility (DAMC), providing for the storage, retrieval and control of engineering type archive data.
Technodyne International has introduced its new document archive management facility (DAMC), providing for the storage, retrieval and control of engineering type archive data Hard copy records and drawings can be stored in the facility, scanned and migrated to a specially developed document software control system accessing a server database
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 3 Dec 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The text from each record is extracted, indexed and fully searchable via a web style interface.
Users can locate a document in seconds by searching on title or content and view, print or edit it a few seconds later.
The software fully controls who can gain access to the records and what they are permitted to do to those records.
This advanced facility is designed for engineering type records, typically a combination of A0-A3 drawing formats and A4 specifications, manuals and documents, although it can be used for any set of records.
The database can reside on our server or on the customer's server.
Drawings stored in the database are fully controlled by the management software - document access can be restricted at any desired level, full drawing change controls can be implemented, etc - this is particularly important where drawing changes need to be strictly monitored for example, in engineering applications.
Where hardcopy storage is required the company has a repository for storing paper records, which is fully fire and intruder protected, in accordance with BS5454 requirements.
An example of a typical current use of the databases is one for a major UK utility.
This contains almost 60,000 drawings of which 15,000 have been made viewable in the system by linking to pre-existing electronic CAD files and by initial scanning of the key paper drawings from the building of the original plant.
Bulk scanning carried out over 6 months is now nearing completion to have the remaining drawings online by the end of March 2002.
The A4 document data in some 600 boxes has been manually reviewed and indexed.
They will be cut down to the important documents which will be scanned, OCR and loaded into the system.
The text layer is automatically indexed by the software so that documents can be found by searching on title or from any text within the document content.
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