Engineering Software
Knowledge Management - a crucial success factor in the technology life cycle
... is your gain
An important approach to achieving improvements and cost savings in the technology life cycle is to increase the efficiency and productivity of indirect activities – above all in administration. Studies have shown that 70% of all quality problems are caused in administration.
Experts assume that around 20% of an engineer’s work is non-creative. Most of this time is lost in manual document administration.
The objective is therefore to increase administrative efficiency, thus saving costs, increasing quality, and reducing throughput times. This objective represents a significant potential for improvement.
The use of an automated document management system in combination with groupware applications (e.g. in Lotus Notes® ) in all phases of a project provides valuable support. Productivity and cooperation between engineers improves as tangibly as the quality of the plant planning operation.
The use of available workflow functions achieves a faster and more compact transfer of information, thus enabling specific control of results within the project team.
- The retention of redundant information is avoided by the use of central databases (document databases in the data management system, memos and information in Lotus Notes® databases).
- Mobile use is possible due to replication of Lotus Notes® databases and the use of indexed offline folders from the document management system on a laptop computer.
Global use is possible for international projects. Access to the document management system is via a web portal; access to Lotus Notes® databases is achieved by replication on servers outside Germany.
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