- Document Management with Flexible Document Database
AutoEDMS manages your engineering data and documents with a flexible and powerful, multi-user database that
can manage millions of files. The AutoEDMS database gives you a central and secure reference to all of your files, for easy search and retrieval.
AutoEDMS includes the AutoEDMS Navigator. The Navigator is an Explorer-style database navigation and file selection tool. The Navigator is implemented throughout AutoEDMS and can be used in any situation where you would like to "navigate" the database in order to build a "collection" of chosen files. Examples include batch file check-out/check-in, automated transmitals, and batch printing and copying.
- Automated Document Workflow
AutoEDMS automates document revision and approval processes with the built-in AutoEDMS Workflow Engine. You can use the drag & drop "Visual Workflow Designer" to establish multiple workflow processes. These workflow processes can automatically route your documents between people and departments,
through a multi-step revision and approval process.
Version 6.5 SR2 offers significant performance improvements in workflow operation (at least 100x faster!)
- Automated File Check-Out/Check-In
AutoEDMS provides easy management of your engineering documents, through secure check-out and check-in. These functions act as an electronic librarian, instantly monitoring who has files checked-out of the system and when they are checked back into the system.
This prevents two people from working on the same file simultaneously. Users can have multiple documents checked-out in their AutoEDMS "In Basket" to secure them while they are being edited.
- Automatic Filenaming
AutoEDMS has a built-in, flexible filenaming system that you can use to automatically name (or number) your documents. This helps you concentrate on your work, and not on cryptic filenames. AutoEDMS will also process "drag & drop" files and update or insert them into your AutoEDMS database. This is a simple way to import existing files into AutoEDMS.
- Automatic Revision Control System
AutoEDMS and the Workflow Engine will help you track multiple revisions of your documents, and roll-back older versions to make room for the new ones. AutoEDMS manages all revision transactions with a workflow history database, with complete error checking and automated recovery.
- Powerful Database Searches
At the heart of AutoEDMS is a mission-critical, multi-user database engine. AutoEDMS provides a number of ways
to search your document database to find the file(s) you are looking for.
- Database and File Security
AutoEDMS' built-in security works on top of existing network security restrictions. AutoEDMS security prevents unauthorized access to files, database Forms, database information and programs. AutoEDMS supports Windows "hidden shares" and secure read-only directories to prevent unauthorized file access or updates.
- AutoEDMS Reports
Version 6.5 SR2
includes an improved AutoEDMS Reports solution. It includes many performance improvements when creating AutoEDMS' internal reports.
- File Viewing and Printing
AutoEDMS directly views and prints hundreds of file types, including Word, Excel, Acrobat PDF, AutoCAD DWG and DWF, MicroStation DGN, CADKEY, CALS G4, HPGL, JPEG, tiled and multi-page TIFF files. AutoEDMS provides secure, read-only viewing and printing of your network-based files.
Version 6.5 SR2
includes the new AutoEDMS aVue viewing system -- a 100% Java thin-client viewer. AutoEDMS aVue is state-of-the-art viewing technology that supports all the latest file formats, including AutoCAD 2004/2005 DWG and DWF, MicroStation v8, Acrobat PDF, and Word/Excel 2003. AutoEDMS aVue is not a plug-in or ActiveX object. It is a complete thin-client/server system that replaces the current viewing modules.
(3D viewing support for Inventor, Solidworks, Mechanical Desktop, ProE and others is also available as an option)
List of supported file formats
- Internet Ready
AutoEDMS is "Internet Ready". With the optional AutoEDMS Web Publisher solution, users can query,
view, print, and download managed files through standard web browsers. The AutoEDMS Web Publisher/aVue system provides streamlined, client/server viewing and printing of hundreds of file formats, without any
client-side viewing utilities or plug-ins. Best of all, it can be up and running with your custom AutoEDMS system in just minutes!
Version 6.5 SR2
includes a new integration interface to the AutoEDMS Web Publisher/aVue system. You can use it to integrate the WP/aVue solution with your existing web site, such as a manufacturing portal or GIS system.
- Windows Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame Support
Version 6.5 SR2
is now fully compatible with Windows Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame. It can be easily deployed over the Internet to efficiently support remote AutoEDMS users.
- Optional AutoEDMS Redline Module
AutoEDMS has an optional Redline Module that offers drawing redline and compare. The Redline Module is tightly integrated with AutoEDMS and the Workflow Engine to provide managed and secure annotation of CAD drawings and scanned images. The Redline Module can also be used to determine the differences between two different versions of a drawing -- great for revision control.
- AutoTitleBlock System
You can configure AutoEDMS' AutoTitle Block System to automatically keep your AutoCAD titleblock attributes "in sync" with your AutoEDMS database information. AutoEDMS includes a configurable titleblock database that you can setup to match your AutoCAD titleblock layouts.
- Support for Multiple Application Configuration
With the Extension Association
system, you can configure the same file-type any number of times. This enables AutoEDMS to correctly load different application configurations, depending on your requirements. For example, an AutoCAD drawing file (with an extension of DWG) could be loaded using AutoCAD with Mechanical Desktop, AutoCAD with GTX RasterCAD, or AutoCAD with Archibus.
- Support for MAPI-based Email
AutoEDMS supports the "MAPI" email standard for easy integration with corporate email systems. Use
AutoEDMS email support to notify colleagues of new document revisions, project status, or just send a file from your custom database.
- Built-in Customization Tools
You can further customize AutoEDMS' out-of-the-box features and functions with the built-in AutoEDMS customization tools. the new QwikForm program
is used to design the graphical database screens (Forms) and databases. Use the Visual Workflow Designer to create automated document workflow procedures. AutoEDMS also includes the powerful ACS Customization
Language (ACL) that you can use to quickly implement your company-specific engineering document management functions.
- System Administrator Utilities
AutoEDMS includes System Administrator utilities for User / Workstation registration and system maintenance.
Uilities have been added to make implementation easier for larger installations, including an improved "Maintenance Mode" in SR2. All Administration and Configuration programs can be accessed from the AutoEDMS
program group as well as from the AE InfoCenter.
- No more Workstation IDs
Version 6.5 SR2
now uses the workstation name, instead of proprietary "workstation IDs", making deployment and administration of AutoEDMS much easier.
- Automatic Program Updates from the Internet
AutoEDMS can automatically update itself with program enhancements or changes from a secure ACS web site.
Complete error checking is built-in, and you can review the downloaded files before updating your production AutoEDMS system.
- Online Documentation
All AutoEDMS documentation is published online for easy viewing and printing. AutoEDMS' documentation is
stored in the Microsoft HTML-based Help format which offers easy and familiar text navigation and selection.
