Not all documents undergo a revision process but many do, ranging from customer proposals to engineering drawings. It is vital to keep control of the document life cycle and ensure that everyone, both inside and outside of the organisation, is working to the same revision. Enhancement provides strict control of the revision cycle with specific revision schemes applied to documents. When a document is approved for issue it is locked by the system preventing any further modification. This process will also electronically “sign off” the document, which, depending on the security settings may make that document instantly visible to other uses. This electronic sign off can drastically shorten project lead times by making approved documents available instantly to their intended readers and by reducing the amount of hard copies being printed and issued manually.

For most business, Email has replaced traditional forms of correspondence; letters and faxes to suppliers and customers, internal memos, quotations, meeting minutes etc. Unfortunately in most cases the tradition document management methods used to maintain and control these types of documents have been lost. Businesses now find that valuable and often vitally important communication are unmanaged and uncontrolled and extremely vulnerable within user’s Email folders.

Enhancement offers an Email management facility which simplifies the import and management of important Emails. As with any document an Email may be quickly imported, allocated a unique document number and stored securely on the network server for future reference by relevant users.

Enhancement is designed to integrate seamlessly with other windows applications, enabling the user to launch effortlessly into which ever application is required to edit, view or print a selected document. Using a sophisticated application driver system, each computer on a network may be uniquely configured and centrally administered to drive the application software installed and licensed for that machine. Drivers are easily configured to automatically update documents internally, such as updating header and footer information within Microsoft Word documents.

With direct integration using RealDWG^tm from Autodesk, Enhancement s able to completely control the title block within an AutoCAD drawing. This ensures that the information contained within the drawing such as Drawing Number, Revision, and Author etc is always in step with the database. All versions of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT are supported up to and including release 2008.

Other applications which maintain file relationship such as Inventor, Solidworks and AutoCAD Electrical can be managed effectively with Enhancement. Full revision control of these documents can be maintained without compromising the integrity of the file relationships.

With consideration for network security and your wide area network infrastructure, it is now possible to connect your customers and suppliers directly to your approved documents, cutting their waiting time to zero and thus helping to dramatically reduce your own development and production lead times.