Document Management (paperless/wireless shop environment)

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We use the document management feature extensively. Not quite as you
envision it though. We have been very happy with the results. We have
looked at other document control options and by far this has been the least
costly.

Shirley Graver
Sys Admin
Rubber Associates inc
-----Original Message-----
From: jfekkes [mailto:jfekkes@...]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:08 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Document Management (paperless/wireless shop
environment)


I'd like to ask, if anyone else is using Document Management on the
shopfloor to view prints, work instructions, etc. We would
appreciate learning from others, so as to make less mistakes in
implementing this process.

We are looking into going paperless and wireless out on our
shopfloor. (We manufacture mobile pc carts, that we will use to
implement this.) We are looking to purchase either laptops, thin
clients, or other pc solutions. This will be the easy part.

We have been linking engineering print files (using pdf's) to our
parts in document management.

We are anticipating having several of these mobile stations in each
deparment, depending on the amount of employees within the department.

This would require purchasing Vantage Data Collection Licenses. This
is were we have a concern. The Data Collection licenses are going to
cost more than our hardware for each station. There has been talk of
purchasing another Document Management Software, so that we do not
have to use Vantage. This would mean maintaining two systems. I
realize we could use the "time-out" but it would not be efficient to
have the employees have to log in each time they used the computer
station.

Has anyone an opinion, that has some type of similar system set up
already? I really want to avoid having to purchase and maintain
another document management system outside of Vantage.


























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I'd like to ask, if anyone else is using Document Management on the
shopfloor to view prints, work instructions, etc. We would
appreciate learning from others, so as to make less mistakes in
implementing this process.

We are looking into going paperless and wireless out on our
shopfloor. (We manufacture mobile pc carts, that we will use to
implement this.) We are looking to purchase either laptops, thin
clients, or other pc solutions. This will be the easy part.

We have been linking engineering print files (using pdf's) to our
parts in document management.

We are anticipating having several of these mobile stations in each
deparment, depending on the amount of employees within the department.

This would require purchasing Vantage Data Collection Licenses. This
is were we have a concern. The Data Collection licenses are going to
cost more than our hardware for each station. There has been talk of
purchasing another Document Management Software, so that we do not
have to use Vantage. This would mean maintaining two systems. I
realize we could use the "time-out" but it would not be efficient to
have the employees have to log in each time they used the computer
station.

Has anyone an opinion, that has some type of similar system set up
already? I really want to avoid having to purchase and maintain
another document management system outside of Vantage.