Workflow Management

Expertise on optimal processes („best ractices“) and their day-to-day application, counts as one of the most important competitive assets of a company. Processes determine production cycles, product quality and, often enough, immediate costs.

Optimally Geared for Development Processes

Product development processes are characterised by a strong project orientation, often „fuzzy“ intermediate goals/results and a high degree of parallelism. Unpredicted changes and modifications are the rule and not the exception.

CIM DATABASE provides following functions to match these requirements:

• Consideration and availability of materials such as documents, articles etc. within the immediate workflow.
• Display and control of materials status through so-called object lifecycles.
• Simple and situational, customer defined ad-hoc process descriptions.
• A task management that supports the user irrespective of job origin, e.g. project, unresolved issue, singular sequence etc.

Benefits

• Systematic support of development processes has, amongst others, following advantages:
• Accelerated processes by abandoning paper-based, sequential workflows in choice of parallel executable, „digital“ processes
• Compliance to and implementation of binding procedures and directives
• Support of routine work such as notifications, automated release notes and other documents like Engineering Change Notification etc.
• Provision of basic data for strategic controlling and process optimisation thanks to the easy acquisition of itemised process characteristics and indices.