Project Document Manager Case Study - Austin Commercial

Austin Commercial is building a state-of-the-art chip plant for Texas Instruments (TI). The building will sit on 92 acres and will employ about 1,000 people when completed. The 1.1 million-square-foot facility will include 220,000 square feet of clean room space.

With Austin Commercial's standard of meeting or exceeding the needs of their clients, they were searching for a solution to better manage their project documents. Specifically, they needed to have their project documents quickly indexed and entered into Prolog so they could create bid packages and distribute documents to meet the owner's request. And then be able to provide TI with a complete document archive at the end of their project.

The solution they chose was DFS Contractor (now called PDM Pro) with ReproMAX services. When asked the reasons why Austin Commercial went with PDM Pro and ReproMAX, Fred Cardenas, PM Systems & Technical Support at Austin Commercial said, "The decision helped Austin Commercial reduce reproduction costs and put less pressure on data entry. We could continue to use Prolog as our standard project management interface, and add a simple-to-use integration to get the document management functionality we needed."

Integrated Solution Features

• Quick indexing of drawings
• Easy viewing of drawings from Prolog
• Easy viewing of bid package contents
• Automated notification system
• Online viewing and ordering
• Full version control
• Long term archiving
• ReporMAX scanning, indexing, and printing services

The PDM Pro helped Austin to facilitate quick indexing and provided a place to scan and order prints through ReproMAX while providing a prject archive and the integration between PDM Pro and Prolog to maximize efficiency.

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