USER STORY IN THE EDM/PDM WORLD : MORGAN CORPORATION

USER STORIES

IN THE EDM/PDM WORLD :

MORGAN CORPORATION

Identify your requirements . . .

"Finding a software package to handle the EDMS
requirements of your company is the easy part.
Identifying the requirements of EDMS for your
business is the difficult part of the justification and
implementation process. After you have the
requirements identified, find a package that will fit
your needs without altering your requirements. Then
go to training."

Dean Heffentrager
CAD Network Administrator
Morgan Corporation

Morgan Corporation is the leading manufacturer of truck van bodies and innovative transportation industry products. Morgan has set the standard for quality and design in the industry for over two decades. Specialized options are engineered to conform to customer requirements and satisfy the needs of a diverse market.

Morgan is in our third year utilizing AutoEDMS for Windows. Our initial 30 seat system is managing all AutoCAD drawing files, scanned raster drawing files, and Microsoft Office Suite generated files for the Design and Development, Systems, and Productions Engineering departments at Morgan. Engineering standards, change notices, stock standards, project reports, fastener index, test reports and all other documents generated and distributed by the Engineering department are controlled by AutoEDMS. These files currently total around 22,000 documents.

Engineering managers and other departments now have access to review project drawing files and reports without the expense of the native applications. The software is being utilized within the Purchasing and Materials departments for immediate access to the current revision of part or assembly drawings for standard and custom orders. This was all accomplished during the first four months of implementation.

AutoEDMS will be used in the near future for shop floor and regional manufacturing plant access to the Engineering database across a WAN. Future plans include integrating the AutoEDMS Workflow Engine to handle ECN (Engineering Change Notice) approval and distribution, production job data release notification and general document release and flow. ODBC will be used to pull required information from our AS/400 order entry system directly into the production job AutoEDMS database to reduce custom order lead time.

The flexibility of AutoEDMS guarantees that it is the right document management solution for any company serious about implementing a software package to enhance their business processes without changing their business processes to meet the limitations of most out-of-box document management solutions. The ACS programming language provides this flexibility. It is easy to learn and extremely powerful in providing the custom solutions every successful EDMS implementation requires. Another key benefit AutoEDMS provides is the people behind ACS Software, Inc. The experience ACS has with document management solutions consistently comes shining through.

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