Benefits of Paper to CAD Conversions in Engineering Services
In today's tech driven and competitive world, every business must leverage its intellectual and information resources that usually involve great amount of engineering and technical documents and the knowledge pool that the company has gained over many years. It poses a major challenge for the company to organize and manage increasing volume of project documents. These documents contain the largest amount of information. During project execution a design or drawing document may become active due to maintenance of an older structure or because the new design reminds you of information developed in the past.
Scanning and storing of these important technical documents into a digital format using Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools has emerged out as the most effective and affordable way to maintain large quantities of drawings and related documents. This process is called as Paper-to-CAD conversion.
Let me ask you some basic questions related to paper drawings:
1. Do you know paper drawings are vulnerable to aging and destruction over time?
2. Do you know that 8-10% of technical resources are misfiled, misplaced or lost due to manual processes of handling paper drawings?
3. Do you know that paper is a limited format; it is constrained to text and graphics, while electronic documents can include audio, video and even hyperlinks to other resources?
4. Are you facing difficulties with the manual methods of maintaining, managing and storing paper drawings that are complex, costly and time-consuming?
5. Have you ever compared the ease of electronic searching with manual searching?
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