September 20, 2011 – Engineers work with the issues and problems of configuration management every day. Depending on its complexity, every product you design, build and maintain may have a different configuration over the course of its life that your company needs to be aware of. Parts may be swapped out routinely for repair and maintenance, and a component of one configuration may not work with another.
September 15, 2011 – Out of the box, SharePoint and TINA are two very different solutions that are very complementary. If you are looking for a solution that starts with document management, TINA is the best and most economical choice. If you are a business looking for a way to manage your intranet, website, project sites, blogs and wikis, you should be looking at SharePoint.
August 31, 2011 – Bills-Of-Materials (BOMs) provide important information used by many departments including design, production, purchasing and in-service support centres. Just one small change in a BOM can have a ripple effect across the entire organization. A mistake, or lack of insight into pending changes, can mean stockpiling the wrong part, expensive rework or even loss of life.
August 17, 2011 – Edwin Seibel is credited with inventing the vertical filing cabinet, complete with multiple drawers and file folders, over 100 years ago. This approach to information management carried forward seamlessly into the PC age; think of network drives as filing cabinets and you get the picture.
August 12, 2011 – Modern militaries operate large expensive assets that will be in service for decades. Efficient and safe maintenance and operation of these assets is underpinned by effective document and technical data management and control that is virtually impossible to achieve using network drives and Windows file folders.
August 5, 2011 – Document management solutions have a number of advantages over network drives and Windows file folders. This saves valuable time and streamlines your workflow.
July 26, 2011 – AwareBase has been supplying fleet management software to the aerospace sector for a number of years. TINA for Asset Lifecycle Management is purpose-built for the industry and takes all the small details into account that a more generalized software package will not.
July 25, 2011 – Document revision and version control is an important part of standard best practices, and is a key requirement for many certifications such as ISO 9001. Many companies introduce document control as a requirement of these certifications rather than for the good it will do on its own. Here are a few reasons that you need to have control of your document versions and revisions.
May 17, 2011 – Installing a project document control system is a no-brainer for engineering firms. They make all tasks more efficient, ensure documents related to a project can be immediately found, and billing can be done more accurately. In the 21st century, it is equally important that project document management software is web-based for quick updating on the go.