New Features Enable Superior Engineering Process Management
December 9, 2008, Toronto, ON – ENGINEERING.com Inc. [TSXV:EGN] today released V.2009 of Collaboration Suite, the premier hosted engineering collaboration solution for manufacturers. V.2009 adds the power of resource planning and costing to the already powerful online collaborative environment, along with enhanced reporting customers can make informed decisions using real-time data.
Many manufacturers have profited from the power of the online collaborative workspaces of ENGINEERING.com’s Collaboration Suite. These manufacturers have built repetitive projects and jobs and other processes, such as their new product introductions, into Collaboration Suite templates. The templates allow them to control complex engineering processes with a minimum of effort.
Collaboration Suite is an economical online engineering process control system. Complete with online project/process management, document management, web-conferencing and supplier management, ENGINEERING.com Collaboration Suite helps companies manage their new product introductions and other engineering processes across distributed design and manufacturing teams.
"Our customers have long been impressed with the way Collaboration Suite can quickly model and control their engineering processes", said John Hayes, President of ENGINEERING.com. "Now they can also use Collaboration Suite to forecast their personnel needs and track the time spent on jobs."
The hosting environment at ENGINEERING.com enables users to access their projects and jobs from any computer that is connected to the Internet. The pricing of Collaboration Suite is much lower than for deployed solutions, and the speed of deployment is much faster. Customers are able to access the system the day they place an order, and most customers can learn to create their own process templates within a few hours.
Collaboration Suite is ideally suited to manufacturers who are managing projects and action items using Microsoft Excel or MSProject as stand alone solutions.
