Engineering
Engineering Change Management
Cost, quality, speed and creativity are driving forces in engineering design and development process. Corporations are now aware of the fact that competitive advantage depends on the initial phases of development process; for, in those phases, the ability to utilise the designs iteratively and to apply the changes quickly could shorten the development process and reduce the costs.
In order to organize access and control the data during the realisation of engineering designs, we need document and information management systems. Doxoft is a document management and workflow application which enables the corporations to access the documents and data quickly and improves the quality and flow of information. The solution provides security, revision control and audit control at every stage.
Reutilisation of Designs
Engineers should rely on accessible and updated documentation in order to be able to apply the engineering changes effectively or to design new products. Doxoft's comprehensive query capabilities provide quick and uninterrupted access to the most critical documents such as CAD drawings, bills of materials ans specification sheets. Since all the documents are under full distribution and revision control, you can always access the correct version when you request. You can easily associate the documents with each other, such that, e.g. a CAD drawing can be associated to its own bill of material.
Doxoft's open architecture and compatibility with the standards enables the users to integrate this solution with other applications such as "plannig system" managing their corporation's production requirements. Furthermore, Doxoft performs full data sharing with ERP and PDM applications which are inevitable for manufacturing companies and manages their documents and drawings throughout their life cycles.
Management of CAD Documents
All documents, whether in electronic or printed format, can be managed by Doxoft. Doxoft facilitates access to, storage and tracking of any kind of documents including CAD drawings, business documents, technical documents, worksheets, e-forms, raster images, voice and video files. Electronic files can be organized in accordance with the environments of corporations operating in a single region or multiple regions. Access privileges are controlled through a multi-level security scheme which can be extended down to the document level. Doxoft's compound feature allows you to manage a group of documents as if it is a single document and, at the same time, to view, print and check each of those documents independently.
Examples of documents to be managed by Doxoft;
- Engineering specification sheets and drawings
- Plant and equipment drawings
- Product and action plans
- Corporate policies and applications
- Compatibility control records
- Subcontractor records
- Transfer documents and deliveries
- Pipe and tool diagrams
- Bills of materials
- Engineering change request forms
- Quality assurance procedures
- Vendor specification sheets
- Test procedures and results