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AutoManager Meridian News
DataCore Technology Awarded Project to Upgrade Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) multi-program national laboratories. PNNL delivers breakthrough science and technology to meet key national needs, with focus on environmental, energy, health, and national security objectives. The Battelle Memorial Institute has operated PNNL for DOE and its predecessors since 1965.

The Facilities and Operations Directorate manages the laboratory's physical infrastructure. One aspect of that is to provide and maintain documentation supporting the facilities configuration management. This documentation includes drawings, procedures, building systems equipment vendor information, and engineering documents.

PNNL currently uses several systems, including AM-WorkFlow, and manual processes to provide necessary EDM functionality. They plan to pull these diverse systems and manual processes together into a single, automated AM-Meridian system for heightened effectiveness and efficiency.

AutoManager TeamWork News
Cyco Software Ships AM-TeamWork 2002A

Software Update Includes New MCAD Features, Windows XP Support & Italian Version.

As part of Cyco's aggressive development schedule, AutoManager TeamWork 2002a boasts more than 33 new and enhanced features, including new Inventor and SolidWorks links, new document viewers and additional deployment enhancements.

Based on AutoManager Meridian's core EDM technology, AutoManager TeamWork 2002a incorporates many of the new features that recently shipped with AutoManager Meridian 2002, including:

  • Updated Inventor and SolidWorks links (including SolidWorks 2001 Plus)
  • Improved Web Client (includes improved wizard pages and VB-scripting possibilities)
  • Enhanced support for the mechanical design environment (bi-directional synchronizing properties, where-used, show assembly structure & derivatives)
  • Additional Office and raster viewers
  • Additional customization (such as AutoEvents) and deployment options
  • Support for Windows XP operating system

A "What's New in AutoManager TeamWork 2002a" booklet is available in English and German with more documentation about this latest release. Please download it at: http://www.cyco.com/mailings/new2002a.pdf

DataCore Up Close - Part 6
Get Ready...Get Set.
by Steve Canfield, Project Manager
Our Project Delivery Methodology is the guideline by which we execute our EDM projects at DataCore. In this sixth of a series of articles describing the entire process, Steve Canfield, our Project Manager, describes the preparation steps leading up to deploying an EDM system: legacy data migration, training materials preparation, the pre-visit checklist, user acceptance test preparation, and the Implementation Plan. If you are considering DataCore for an EDM project, we encourage you to click here to read the entire article. 

Previous articles are also available for viewing at the following links:

Upcoming articles will discuss remaining phases in detail, providing information on what tasks are included in each, how they fit together and the benefits of each phase.

PowerUser Tip
Open PowerUser Faster to the Documents You Need
Last month's PowerUser Tip showed you how to use AM-Meridian's Application Integration (now called the Office Client) to quickly access your documents from within your editing application without having to go through PowerUser. That's great when you don't need PowerUser's advanced functionality, but sometimes you need to perform tasks that only PowerUser can perform.

The key to becoming a power user of AM-Meridian yourself (or any other application, for that matter) is in knowing the fastest, most direct way to accomplish any task. One way you can save time in PowerUser is by quickly opening the application right to where you need to be: the Main area, a work area, or your most recent document. AM-Meridian can help you by creating shortcuts and remembering your last document.

By default, PowerUser opens up to the Main area of your vault. You can create a shortcut to this area by clicking Create Shortcut to this Vault on the File menu.

PowerUser File Menu

AM-Meridian will place a shortcut icon on your desktop that will open the selected vault to the area that was displayed when you created the shortcut. Thus, you can create shortcuts on your desktop to all of the work areas you use most often. Just open each work area to the view you need and use the Create Shortcut to this Vault command for each one.

Vault shortcuts created on the desktop

By executing these shortcuts when you need to open PowerUser, you'll be taken directly to the vault context represented by each one, saving clicks and loading time.

If you often work on the same document for long periods of time, you will appreciate AM-Meridian's ability to remember your last selected document. You can enable this feature by selecting the Startup options on the General page of the Options dialog as shown below.

PowerUser Options dialog

After setting these options, AM-Meridian will retain your last selected document whenever you open PowerUser from a shortcut not created by Create Shortcut to this Vault, such as from a Start menu program group, or whenever you change views. Note that executing one of the shortcuts created using the tip above will override this setting.

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Welcome to eDigest, breaking news from DataCore Technology.

July 2002

DataCore Technology Awarded Project to Upgrade Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Cyco Software Ships AM-TeamWork 2002A
DataCore Up Close Part 6: Get Ready...Get Set.
Open PowerUser Faster to the Documents You Need

Attend a FREE EDM Webinar!

See AM-Meridian or AM-TeamWork demonstrated live in your office with just a web browser. Webinars are conducted regularly. To find out more, click here.

Also, join our free webinar on Connecting Engineering and Maintenance with the Cyco AutoManager MAXIMO Module. Click here for more information or to sign up.

Contact DataCore
For more information on these and other EDM topics, contact DataCore Technology at (800)531-2287 or visit us on the web at www.data-core.com where you can find a lot of information about DataCore and the topics presented here.
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