According to Ricardo Talbot, Chief Science Officer for Elmo Solutions, the largest difference in effective search tools that create and manage engineering documents is the ability to index, search and display a wide range of CAD and imaging documents from AutoCAD, Autodesk others "flavored" applications, Autodesk Inventor and SolidWorks.
Editor AutomationMedia.com contribute and manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler profiled Elmo Solutions product search. The article can be read in its entirety http:www.automationmedia.comTRCutler.asp.
Calculating ROI for effective PLM CAD research products are generally based on the assumption that the security of information workers spend an average of one hour per week of research for electronic documents. The labor cost is shown below and includes the rate of all charges, but is very conservative.
Elmo Solutions provides professional services related to the creation, maintenance, transformation and processing of CAD PLM metadata. Elmo Solutions is headquartered in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada and has users in 42 countries. Elmo Solutions is an offshoot of the IRISCO Qubec Inc., a services company specializing in Products Property Project Management Lifecycle. Founded in 1976, customers include manufacturing companies, utilities, engineering and government agencies.
Elmo Solutions, the leader in extraction and processing of PDM metadata, announces the immediate availability of its Elmo Search software. Elmo Search is the world affordable, enterprise search product designed to meet the needs of CAD Managers, R & D managers, IT managers, end users and executives. Elmo Search enables searching within AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Word, Excel, PDF files, emails, and many more document types. It is designed to increase employee efficiency and productivity by providing highly accurate search results in just a fraction of the time required for document management and other techniques (TDM) solutions. It also allows the creation of separate groups of documents, or "collections", each targeting specific groups of interests within the enterprise, while complying with existing file security permissions. Elmo Research continuously monitors changes in a document collection of documents, automatic indexing of new documents and updated on the fly in seconds.
This unique software solution ships in two languages (English and French), and is available to organizations as a free, fully functional, permanent record of 5,000 permits for download directly from site to http:elmo.irisco Elmo. com elmosearch product_overview.htm. The free license can be upgraded to accommodate much larger number of documents at a cost that can be as low as 5 cents per document. Elmo research not only addresses the needs of Autodesk users, but also those of their colleagues, especially those who share data with them throughout the company.
About Elmo Solutions:
Elmo Solutions Inc. (http:www.elmosolutions.com) is the leader in managing CAD PLM metadata, and provides unique products such as Elmo Search software, the software's search engine company for CAD PLM and other documents; Elmo Link, a CAD software application that provides a life companion, bidirectional, "hot" link between CAD PLM and MRP ERP applications and Elmo BoM, a standalone application that allows the Batch extraction of metadata in documents of CAD PLM in a single operation.