Intelligent Documents in the manufacturing enterprise: platform integrates heterogeneous data sources, disperses information to interested parties, manages its use.(Alert: An advertising insert)(Advertisement)

Manufacturing Business Technology, July, 2005

Documents are the lifeblood of the business transaction and the firm basis for bringing diverse parties to common understanding. Yet until recently, even given all the advances of the computer revolution, manufacturers remained woefully dependent on error- and abuse-prone static documents for uses in design, production, supply chain, and maintenance management.

But some manufacturers see new possibilities for productivity improvement with the availability of Intelligent Documents that seem almost alive in their ability to draw on the latest information in enterprise systems, ...