That's good to know. Thanks for the information, I'll have to check that out!
Virginia
Virginia
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Roberts" <broberts@...> wrote:
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> One correction: attachments can be linked to a part revision (while its
> un-approved), as well as to a part. When you create a job and choose a
> revision, the attachments from that revision are linked to the job... so
> printing from job tracker will always give you the correct revision.
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> Brian.
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> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Virginia Joseph
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 1:04 PM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] Re: Allowing MES/Shop floor production employees to
> see CAD drawings
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> Hi Jim, You can use Vantage's Document Management Module. You create an
> attachment to the Part (Epicor calls it an attachment but it is really a
> shortcut to the document on your server)which can be any document you
> want to associate with the part: drawings, tech sheets, customer
> specifications, etc. In MES, the machinists can launch part tracker and
> view and print all attachments that exist for the part. Then you would
> just need to make sure the workstation running MES have the correct
> software for viewing all the different file types.
>
> You would also need to put a process in place to ensure that the
> machinists pick the right attachments for the revision on which they are
> working becuase the attachements do not link to a specific part
> revision, they link to the part.
>
> Virginia Joseph
> Deep Hole Specialists, LLC
> vjoseph@... <mailto:vjoseph%40deephole.com>
>
> --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> , Jim
> Chance <jim_chance@> wrote:
> >
> > Well, that's a possibility.
> >
> > My goal is to make it easy for the shop floor operator to see the
> drawing for the job/release/part/rev that they are working on for the
> process.
> >
> > First thought was do to this in MES since that is where they login to
> the job/part/operation. Then give them the ability to click on something
> to see the CAD PDF link.
> >
> > Based on this, does your approach sound similar?
> >
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