AutoManager Meridian & Teamwork – Not Just for Engineering

For most people, Cyco’s AutoManager^® Meridian^® and Teamwork^® products are synonymous with engineering data management for use with CAD systems such as AutoCAD^®, Inventor^® and Solidworks^®. While it is true that Cyco offers probably the best tool for managing this type of CAD data, many of our customers have found that these products are excellent tools for data and document management in other areas within their organization.

For example, just among our customers, use of the system allows . . .

. . . a lawn and garden equipment manufacturer to use a single system to:

• manage and control all of its quality and manufacturing documents
• streamline its accounts payable processes resulting in reduced labor costs, processing time and better capturing of available vendor discounts
• integrate with its ERP system so that part and assembly drawings can be accessed directly from the ERP system itself
• allow sales personnel to control and manage all product-related specifications, product manuals and brochures and make them available to in-house personnel and customers, distributors and traveling personnel via the web

. . . a large real estate investment trust (REIT) to use a single system to:

• automate its accounts payable processes
• automatically import and manage electronic bank check records it receives from its banks
• control and share all of its thousands of property drawings for all of the real estate its develops, owns and manages across the United States

. . . a lighting manufacturer to create one secure central system allowing employees and vendors to access all product related information including drawings, specifications, literature, artwork, package labels and manufacturing documents both remotely and in the office.

. . . a large manufacturing equipment manufacturer to publish its machine operation and maintenance manuals to the web and thus reduce costly hard copy printing and distribution costs.

Why is this use in multiple departments important? Because it allows companies to invest in a single system that can be used throughout the organization resulting in:

• Higher return on investment
• Reduced IT burden
• Reduced learning curve because users only have to learn one system

If you are an engineer trying to pursue the purchase of a system like this, we feel that these are very important points to make to your upper management and IT departments when trying to obtain purchase approval for a system.

With software prices starting at under $600 per concurrent user for Teamwork, the systems we offer are designed to be affordable for small companies, but expandable in order to support the needs of larger enterprises. Combined with the possibility of this type of multi-departmental benefit available, it is a rare company that can not afford and justify the purchase of Meridian or Teamwork.