Hagerman & Company, Inc. Technology Bulletin

With the release of Productstream 2008, Autodesk has added enhancements to its low cost Productstream Reviewer and Productstream Explorer modules, making them an excellent addition to any standard Autodesk Vault deployment. As a result, we strongly encourage our existing Vault customers and those considering implementing Autodesk Vault to take a look at what these products can do for you.

Added features available to customers with Productstream Reviewer include:

	Full Vault access for non-CAD users (not a new feature)
	Folder level security to allow different users different levels of access to the various folders and sub-folders in Vault (not a new feature)
	Automatic file naming allowing you to conform to your company’s file naming and numbering standards using predefined naming schemes and sequences
	Batch printing/plotting of user selected files, all files in a folder or all drawings associated with a selected assembly with full support for setting plot parameters, saving and recalling plot lists, watermarking and plot stamping
	Easy, inexpensive, floating search-view-print access for other company departments using the web-based Productstream Explorer
	Automated workflow for ECO/engineering change order processing

Productstream Reviewer’s engineering change capabilities give users the ability to track, audit, and monitor engineering change orders, remove process bottlenecks, approve or deny changes and improve the efficiency of the engineering change process. Built-in forms provide standard and user-defined ECO information to participants for review, approval, or printing, helping to reduce errors associated with paper-based processes and to help ensure that decision makers have access to complete product information.

Other major features for automated ECO’s in Productstream Reviewer include:

	The ability to keep an electronic record of changes, track comments such as notes and redlined drawings associated with an ECO.
	Routing of engineering changes in parallel to engineers, reviewers, and approvers throughout the design team thus cutting down on ECO completion time
	Automatic generation of emails to alert engineers when they have tasks to perform or downstream users when changes are made and new designs are complete
	Automatic ECO/change order numbering using pre-defined naming and numbering schemes
	Multiple routing options to support companies that need differing personnel assignments depending on the type of change, urgency/priority, manufacturing facility, product line, etc. or need additional checks and approvals as part of their workflow

In addition, Autodesk has released the new Productstream Replicator module as an add-on to both Vault and Productstream. The module is designed for companies that need to share AutoCAD, Inventor and other file types across multiple design and/or manufacturing locations in a timely and synchronized manner. The Productstream Replicator provides global sharing of common designs via automatic synchronization of check in/check out operations and file changes across vaults at multiple company sites and helps ensure that all designers are working from the most current design while still providing them with the benefits of local storage and performance. Productstream Replicator is the most cost-effective multi-site replication product we have seen available on the market.

For customers who need more advanced capability, the higher cost Productstream Creator module is, of course, still available and includes additional features and capabilities for:

	Item release/revision management
	Bills of material
	ERP integration

For more information on any of these Productstream options, please feel to contact me directly or your local Hagerman & Company representative. In addition, we will be conducting Webex demonstrations of these products on:

Thursday, August 2 at 1:00 p.m. CDT

Tuesday, August 14 at 1:00 p.m. CDT

To sign up for these events, please visit www.hagerman.com/events