New in AM2005a: BriefCase

The Market

Within the process of creating engineering data, companies often work with multiple external parties adjusting or completing the engineering data. Engineering data therefore is send to the external contractor which 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. The BriefCase is intended for all AM-Meridian and AM-TeamWork users who need to exchange documents with multiple external parties and want to do that in a structured and efficient way. The users can be found in the Manufacturing market and in the Asset & Facility Management market.

The Solution

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.