Hagerman & Company, Inc. Technology Bulletin

Ebul 78 - April 2009

by Matt Lane,
Director, Consulting Services

 

Adept Engineering Document Management & Workflow

As many of you may have heard, Hagerman & Company has recently added the Synergis Adept package from Synergis Software to our line of document management and workflow software as a complement to the products from Autodesk and BlueCielo ECM Solutions that we currently offer to our clients. Synergis Software has been developing and implementing document management software for (17) years and has their software in place at over (1,000) locations worldwide. Adept is being used across all industries including:

-Government and education

-Architecture, engineering and construction

-Discrete manufacturing

-Process manufacturing

-Transportation, utilities and communication

-Finance, insurance and real estate

Major organizations using Adept include Alcoa, Bosch, Caterpillar, Rohm & Haas, General Electric, Lockheed, NASA, Olin, Rockwell, General Mills, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sony, Hormel, Sunoco and many, many more.

While very similar to the Vault, Meridian and TeamWork products we already offer, Adept has some additional unique capabilities that may make it a good fit for some of our customers including:

-Support for a wide variety of AutoCAD-based verticals including AutoCAD Electrical, MEP, Civil 3D, AutoCAD Architecture and Land Desktop. (Revit users will also want to take a look at Adept.)

-SolidWorks integration including support for SolidWorks configurations and excellent bill of materials (BOM) capabilities.

-Support for distributed vault architectures.

In addition to the features listed above, Adept also offers all standard document management functionality along with Autodesk Inventor and Microstation integration, customizable workflow with e-mail notification, automated publishing and printing of drawings and documents and much more.

Most importantly, we offer a variety of document management and workflow systems that can include some of all of the following capabilities:

bulletFull CAD integration
bulletManagement of all file types for all types of users and all company departments
bulletAutomated engineering change order (ECO) processing
bulletFully customizable workflow for all other company departments as well
bulletInexpensive and easy to use search-view-print client software
bulletBatch printing and plotting
bulletMulti-site replication
bulletFull web client access and functionality
bulletCollaboration with remote sites/employees, suppliers, contractors, clients, etc.
bulletAutomated publishing of documents to PDF or other industry standard formats
bulletTransmittal creation, management and tracking
bulletIntegration with most maintenance management systems
bulletIntegration with other in-house document management and enterprise systems
bulletBill of materials and ERP integration

Our goal is to work with each client to help determine which system is the best fit for them. And then once that system has been selected, help each customer implement it in order to achieve the highest possible return on investment.

Let us know how we can be of service to you!