CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
March 2004
Company News
CIMdata In The News (From Mechanical Engineering)
The secret of Swagelok's success: workflow software, which helps automate and manage repetitive business processes, such as engineering change orders, document revision, review, and design release. It lets a computer automatically route drawings and documents to every person who needs them.
"It provides the framework-the business rules, steps, and approvals-and defines who gets what when," said senior consultant Peter Bilello of CIMdata Inc., an Ann Arbor, Mich., product lifecycle management consulting firm. "If the rule is that a change that costs more than $1 million needs three signatures, it automatically routes the documents to the three groups that have to sign off on it."
This is an excerpt. For the full article, please visit Simplifying Complexity-Again , (Mechanical Engineering, March 2004), by Alan S. Brown.
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