U.S. Army CECOM's PDM Implementation Reduces Drawing Access Time by 85%, Saving an Average of Two Hours Per Day for Each Engineer
U.S. Army CECOM's PDM Implementation Reduces Drawing Access Time by 85%, Saving an Average of Two Hours Per Day for Each Engineer
5 PagesU.S. Army CECOM's PDM Implementation Reduces Drawing Access Time by 85%, Saving an Average of Two Hours Per Day for Each Engineer The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) has reduced the time it takes to access drawings and other technical documents from 30 minutes to 5 minutes with KONFIG® from Auto-Trol Technology® Corporation. CECOM's legacy configuration management (CM) system didn't store drawings and documents, and it often did not match the data repository. Implementation of a commercial Product Data Management (PDM) system like KONFIG made it possible for engineers to search key words, full text or metadata and obtain copies of all relevant drawings and documents in an average of only five minutes. Another advantage of the new approach is that any authorized user in
