AutoManager Meridian and TeamWork Updates

Over the past few months, Cyco Software has released a number of major and minor revisions to its AutoManager Meridian and TeamWork software that have addressed a number of customer issues and added a number of new features. Since not all of our customers are running one of these most current versions of AutoManager, we thought we would outline some of the major new features and capabilities of each of the versions.

AutoManager Meridian/TeamWork 2004e – Released Spring 2005:
Tremendous server memory management and performance increases. Issues with server memory loss and performance decreases on installations with large numbers of users and/or documents have been resolved. Some customers are reporting up to 30X performance increases on operations which were formerly slow

AutoManager Meridian/TeamWork 2005 – Released August 2005:
Additional improvements in memory management and performance

For Inventor 9 and 10, the AutoManager Add-in now adds a new browser window that shows the file structure of the assembly, including the workflow statuses the part and subassemblies have in the AutoManager vault. Also basic AutoManager commands are available for each file through the context menu, such as the workflow commands and 'where used'.

AutoManager Meridian/TeamWork 2005a – Released October 2005:
Global Search will significantly improve the existing search functionality in AutoManager that will enable users to search over multiple Cyco AutoManager vaults. The Global Search is only available for Cyco AutoManager Meridian. Furthermore, Cyco has included a number of other improvements to the search functionality that are available to both new products.

Briefcases. Within the process of creating engineering data, companies often work with multiple external parties adjusting or completing the engineering data. Engineering data therefore is sent to the external contractor who will make changes to the documents and add additional files to the documentation set sent out. It is quite common though that multiple parties are involved and all need a (different) subset of the documentation. The BriefCase is intended to support the process of exchanging engineering data with external parties. While the asset owner or manufacturer is working with AM-Meridian, his external contractors may not be working with AM-Meridian.

A BriefCase is a container to transmit documents and selected property data to external parties. Documents can be simply copied to a BriefCase for information, or checked-out and locked to a BriefCase, so that no further work is possible on these documents without some further BriefCase related action. A completed BriefCase is a single file with the file extension .BRC. These can be opened with the View BriefCase command of either AutoManager Meridian or AutoManager TeamWork, and can also be opened using AutoManager View. To support management and auditing of document exchange with external parties, transmittal reports can be created, sent out and archived automatically.
In addition all versions have minor improvements in areas such as CAD integration, properties, security, workflow, printing, archiving, importing, viewing, web access, customization

For more information or questions on any of these upgrades, please don’t hesitate to give us a call. In addition, as always, please give us a call before installing any new AutoManager upgrades at your site!