An organization's engineering documents are a critical business asset - many times, it's the source of its competitive advantage in an industry. Keeping these documents current with the most recent changes and comments is essential. While these documents must be easily accessible to the design and production teams, they also need to be protected from unauthorized users within the organization and from competitors.

Formtek Engineering Document Management (EDM) solutions provide flexible yet secure access to your engineering information. It allows authorized users to quickly search and retrieve the latest document versions, as well as access historical information for reference when making and managing changes. All your documents are stored in a secure multi-level repository.

Engineering Document Management facilitates collaboration throughout the engineering and production process. During the design process, your engineering documents can be distributed for review and approval. The markups, comments, and approvals are stored with the documents so all team members can view the transactions. To support the many different authoring tools and file formats used to create, edit, and distribute, the EDM Solution captures multiple document representations and formats. Each authorized user can open the document according to their needs.

The EDM solution securely maintains your engineering assets throughout the document lifecycle. During the early stages of a document's lifecycle, Engineering Document Management allows you to limit how people view the document so changes cannot be made. Once the document is released, the appropriate formats can then be made available to authorized users.

  The Formtek Engineering Data Management Module for Alfresco is now available!