Network Scanning – Powerful Document Distribution at Your Fingertips

Network scanning is one of the most powerful features of today’s multifunctional devices Scanning is often described as an under-used feature of office multifunctional devices (MFPs), but evidence suggests that scanning on an MFP has become so straightforward that it is gradually becoming the normal way to distribute documents within company offices and departments.

As with most situations where the purpose of new technology is not fully understood without first-hand practice, there is always the fear of the new. However once people have worked out how to scan they can go to any machine, scan a document and send it over the office network. This appears to be happening organically in many company offices these days.

Using the scan-to-email function to distribute documents both internally and externally has many benefits over and above lower fax and courier costs,

In a situation, for example, when a department receives say 1,000 orders every week, many of which will be paper-based, by scanning incoming orders on multifunctional device and routing them as email attachments directly to a PC, huge differences over paper copying can be achieved.. By having the multifunctional device LDAP compatible, it will connect to the company email server, enabling staff to select the right email address from the MFP control panel. This process doesn’t just save time, it also automatically creates an electronic copy of every order.

Of course it is then also possible to distribute documents externally. Instead of faxing paperwork to customers, it becomes easier to scan and email them as part of an efficient workflow. Two additional bonuses accrue: 1) the image quality of scanned documents is much better than a fax and 2) because the scans are sent over the internet, fax costs are zero.

A basic scan-to-folder or scan-to-email capability is all that many businesses will need. However, these applications barely begin to cover all that can be achieved with a scan-enabled MFP.

Additional benefits come when businesses use MFPs: to capture knowledge contained in an organisation but not often used simply because it is not easily or readily accessible. In the network scanning environment, a document management system makes such issues less problematic. Also there is the benefit of reduced paperwork cluttering up in-trays and getting mislaid or ignored.

In addition, today’s MFPs have facilities to enable allow developers to create bespoke scanning applications and thus integrate the MFD scanning function into other software packages. This enables companies to make full use of their investment in network-enabled multifunctional systems.

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Siena Biotech Selects the QUMAS Biotechnology Package as Its Regulatory Content Management Solution

JERSEY CITY, NJ–(Marketwire – January 5, 2010) – QUMAS, the leading provider of Compliance Solutions to highly regulated companies, today announced that Siena Biotech SpA has selected the QUMAS Biotechnology Package (based on the industry leading eDMS DocCompliance) to improve document control, reduce approval lifecycles of documents and SOPs, and to become eCTD ready. Siena Biotech SpA has also selected QUMAS ProcessCompliance to automate Change Control and Non-Conformance Management and drive efficiencies across both processes. Initially, Siena Biotech SpA will roll the QUMAS applications out to 30 users.

“With this Package, Siena Biotech SpA is gaining access to a world class document management solution, packaged to ensure low acquisition and implementation costs for biotechnology companies,” said Ken Hayward, CTO at QUMAS. “By harnessing the power of DocCompliance with pre-configured industry practices for R&D leading to eCTD readiness, Siena Biotech SpA will be up and running with this solution very quickly.”

Siena Biotech chose the QUMAS Solutions because of the built in best practices for biotechnology operations, which suited its IT department that did not have the bandwidth to spend months configuring systems. The QUMAS Quickstart approach means that the organization will be up and running in a short time frame, with a relatively low cost. According to Siena Biotech, the look and feel of the interface is great, and very user-friendly.

Goran Westerberg, head of Development Operations in Siena Biotech SpA commented: “We were in the market for a flexible and up-to-date system for document management and found QUMAS Solutions to be the ideal fit for our organization, allowing the system to grow with the portfolio of the Company.”

Federico Paoli, Siena Biotech’s head of IT, concluded that “QUMAS was able to quickly map our needs and provide a solution that fits our infrastructure.”

H@rlock, the QUMAS partner in Italy, has been instrumental in engaging Siena Biotech with QUMAS, in providing local representation and continue to represent QUMAS throughout the Italian market.

This announcement marks the beginning of a new area of business for QUMAS, extending its traditional tier one and two life sciences focus further across the sector to smaller organizations that require the same solutions, but at a lower cost and in an easy to implement format.

About QUMAS: QUMAS is the leader in Enterprise Regulatory Compliance Solutions with more than 250 global customer deployments and over 15 years of experience helping companies in highly regulated industries. For more information visit www.qumas.com

About Siena Biotech: Siena Biotech SpA is an innovative drug discovery company focused primarily on degenerative and proliferative diseases of the central nervous system with the aim of discovering new drugs for therapeutic intervention.

The company was established in 2000 by the Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) Foundation, which is a non-profit, private institution. Since its inception, the company has grown rapidly to achieve the critical mass needed to compete successfully, and has developed a well-balanced and innovative project portfolio focused on the CNS diseases of Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases and brain tumours. For more information visit www.sienabiotech.com

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Maximising workflow with a CAD-CUT Plotter Cutter

Adding new equipment to your business is an exciting undertaking. It represents new business opportunities, the potential for new customers, and, hopefully, new levels of profitability. All of this is especially true with cutters and printer/cutters, which present such enormous decorating potential.

 

If you’re adding a cutter or printer/cutter to your business, get ready for an influx of new types of orders, and get the business ready to handle those orders by laying out your new equipment in the most efficient manner possible. But before moving any new equipment into the business, you’ll need to give some serious thought as to how you’ll physically arrange it, and doing that requires understanding how the work actually flows through the decorating process.

 

Go with the flow

 

With cutters, everything begins at the computers, where the design is created, manipulated and prepared. That said, you’ll want to keep the computer as close as possible to the cutter. On some units, the controls are on the right; by placing the computer on the right side of the unit, near the controls, you can easily reach over to the cutter’s controls while staying seated at the computer.

 

If you’re using a printer/cutter, you’ll first print the design onto the material; if your unit is a conventional cutter, then you’ll obviously skip this step. After the unit cuts the design, you’re ready to weed away the excess material. Next, you’ll mask the design by laying onto it a piece of clear, adhesive material – it looks rather like a huge piece of Scotch tape. Bend the adhesive material in the middle slightly so the middle hits the design first, which will help you avoid air bubbles. You then need to run a squeegee across the adhesive material to push out the air, the first pass lightly, then a second pass with additional pressure.

 

Leave the protective backing on the weeded and masked designs so you may stack them up and take them in bulk to your heat press area. This is a more efficient process than actually applying each design as you weed and mask it, because you’re grouping together similar tasks rather than jumping back and forth between dissimilar ones. Use a cart if needed to move those pieces over to the heat press area. Then, after the garments are decorated with the designs, they can be folded, stacked back into the cart, and rolled over to the packing/shipping area.

 

The work area

 

With a firm understanding of the workflow process for your cutter, you can lay out equipment in the most efficient way possible. Ideally you’ll designate a 3m x 3m area for your cutter, giving you ample room to operate the unit comfortably. Embellishers with spacious production areas might be tempted to allocate even more room for their cutters, but that’s not necessarily a good idea. A compact work area translates into efficiency by putting within arm’s reach the tools and supplies you need to stay productive. You’ll also want a table nearby for weeding and masking; a standard 1.5-2m library type table should provide plenty of room.

 

Devote your cutter area strictly to creating the designs, and handle the application of those designs using the heat press in another part of your premises. In all likelihood, you’re already doing other types of heat transfer work, so there’s no need to move the heat press into your cutter area.

 

(By the way, if you’re just now purchasing a heat press, consider at least a 40×50cm press so that you’re able to handle a larger variety of sizes. Also, consider an air-assisted swing-away type model, a versatile piece of equipment that allows for custom platens, to handle odd shapes such as bag’s gloves and hats.)

 

Other equipment and supplies you’ll need include the media itself (the material that you will be cutting) as well as squeegees, masking material, weeding tools and scissors. Consider bin storage below the table to hold these supplies.  

 

For a one or two person work area, consider arranging your equipment and supplies in a “U” shape. At the base of the “U” is the cutter, with a 2m table to the right, and the computer on the far left-hand side of that table, next to the cutter. The rest of the table is used for weeding and masking. Your configuration may be different depending upon your particular needs, but the goal is to keep everyone working with no waiting, and a minimum amount of wasted energy in between tasks. Employees shouldn’t have to walk anywhere to reach their weeding tools or to find masking material, for instance; it should be all within arm’s reach.

 

Tips to maximize efficiency

 

Of course, getting the most out of your equipment means more than just putting it in the right place: It’s also about using it intelligently. For example, when the design is at the unit being cut (or print and cut, as the case may be), the most efficient thing for you to do is to busy yourself elsewhere, with another task, such as weeding and masking designs you’ve cut previously, rather than watching the unit and waiting for it to finish. Other tips for increasing productivity include:

 

Be specific – Make sure every job has an order sheet with all necessary information including due date; file name; image size and location; type of garment and so on. Chunk it up – Break up runs on roll stock into manageable chunks. For instance, if you have a uniform order for 200 pieces, you might send only 50 at a time to the cutter. This allows you to check quality on the run midway instead of at the end, and you can busy yourself with weeding and masking while the next batch is at the cutter. Keep it manageable – Depending upon your production volume, the length of your design groupings on the cut material will vary depending on the designs and jobs themselves; you should avoid sending designs through your system that total more than a metre of material at once. Keeping segments of material at this length will prevent them from getting so long that they become difficult to physically handle. You can always “tell” the cutter to cut pieces automatically so that you don’t have to do it by hand using scissors. The pieces will then either drop onto the floor or into a catch basket (desirable, depending upon your situation and housekeeping). Weed smart – Whether or not you should weed designs one-at-a-time or in groups depends upon the designs themselves. If you’re doing large ones, you’ll probably want to weed one-at-a-time instead of fighting with a large piece if material with multiple designs. If you’re doing say 24 tiny ones, you could weed them all at once. You should develop a feel for the right approach in this instance, knowing what’s manageable and what’s too cumbersome. Weed different – For some designs – especially smaller ones – you might find that its actually easier to weed after you’ve done the masking rather than beforehand, That’s because much of the weeding will happen as a result of the masking itself, leaving you with less actual weeding to do manually. Any time you’re doing a new order, try this reverse method first; if it doesn’t work, go back to the conventional sequence of weeding first, then masking. Gang up on them – Printers/Cutters typically use white media so there’s no need to change out material for specific colours. However, you will need to change it based on the type of fabric you’re decorating. For example, you’ll use one type of material for polyester and another type for Nylon. Foe maximum efficiency, group jobs that use the same type of material so you’re not constantly changing it out on the cutter. Likewise, gang up smaller jobs so you’re cutting numerous designs at once, not just one or two. Be careful, though, as you don’t want to inadvertently put the wrong design on the wrong substrate – a relatively easy mistake to make when you’re batching together designs from different orders. Think BIG – For large runs, you may want to use a cold laminate, a piece of equipment familiar to those in the sign industry. This unit puts an extra protective clear layer on top of the film. For decorating purposes, you would weed the designs then run them through the laminator with the mask on top. This route is faster for large runs than using a squeegee, and it can provide better, more even coverage, thanks to consistent pressure.

 

Whether you’re equipped with a printer/cutter, a simple cutter, or multiple standard heat presses, like most aspects of your business, creating the ideal system for workflow is often a matter of trial and error, so try these suggestions and see what works best for you. With just a little experimentation and some careful evaluation, you can create a workflow that gets the most efficiency and profitability out of your equipment of choice.

 

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Tips for a Productive Home Office Interior Design

Vancouver Office Design is a company enhancing in the production of home and office interior designs. This company helps in assisting the customers in the step by step process of maximizing their investments as well as offering an effective and inspirational work environment for their homes and offices. Vancouver Interior design is made to suit the needs of the workforce. Vancouver interior designer are empowered to offer entire wonderful approach, ideas and expertise knowledge to the home and office interior designs. The experienced team of professionals offers interior design consultations at an affordable cost but with consistent and great designs with strong values to their customers. These make the Vancouver interior design popular among the clients and they are given access to a wide range of expert resources to bring out the specific requirements of the customers.

The Home and Office forms the important source of access for the public. These two environments offer shelter and earnings for the people. These two important places have to be decorated and kept clean for better environmental situations. Vancouver Interior designs offers excellent services and resources in the decoration and fitting of interiors to these places. The Vancouver interior designers adhere to strict deadlines in the completion of the project and offer interiors at extremely safe budget. Vancouver is a place offering standard workmanship to the customers.

Tips and guidelines for a Productive Interior Designing

Vancouver interior design is specialized in offering various kinds of reorganization services for the work and residential environment. Responsibility, accountability and design solutions are considered as the major principles of Vancouver interior designs. Vancouver interior designers are specialized in offering various tips and guidelines for different interior designing. Some of the tips offered in regard to the productive home office interior designs are the following:

•Planning for proper space systems

•Enhancing the technique of workflow analysis

•Selection of the suitable interior designs for the home and office

•Estimation

The first important step in the process of offering a productive home office interior design is to plan the desired space system. Ascertainment of the space system in the home or office environments makes the Vancouver interior designers effective on the planning and implementation of the correct resources. Vancouver interior designers have extensive knowledge and experience in interior designing field and this makes them in the easy planning for the space systems. The second step is the enhancement of the workflow analysis. The Vancouver interior designers compute the work requirements depending on the space systems and plan for the desired resources. The third step in the selection and choosing of the suitable interior designing like the furniture, light and fixtures, carpet, decorations and table required for the home office environment. The home requires comfortable interior designs while the office requires formal designs to promote work in the environment. The final step is the estimation of the essential planning procedures and they are made according to the budget of the customers. Vancouver interior designers plan and proceed based on the specifications of the customers at competitive prices. Following of the above tips as per the guidelines offered by the Vancouver interior designs will give you the best in a productive home or office interior design.

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Delcam Moves Into Its New State-of-the-art Centre

DELCAM MOVES INTO ITS NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART CENTRE

Invests close to a million dollars in the new facility

-Launches its Engineering Services Division-

: Delcam, one of the world’s leading suppliers of advanced CADCAM software product development solutions for the manufacturing industry recently inaugurated its state of the art centre in Pune. Delcam India completed its 7th Anniversary last month, and is now one of the most popular CAD/CAM software solution providers in the business.

With over 800 customers across India in various domains like Aerospace, Automotive, Toolmaking, Jewellery & Woodworking, Packaging etc, Delcam has created a niche by revolutionising the Design-to-Manufacture process in all the industry levels, be it small, medium or large scale. The new facility which has been set up at a cost of a million dollars has state-of-the-art facilities and revolves around the ideals of total commitment to customers. Various divisions and support departments cater to customers across the spectrum of application verticals, and are instrumental in keeping the down-times low for their customers.

Delcam India started operations in the year 2000, after an initial approach to the Indian Industries through Distributors. The Distributor model was reasonably successful; with time, in order to maintain Delcam’s global practice of ‘Customer Focus’, Delcam Plc decided to open a direct office in India. Delcam India is a part of Delcam PLC, UK, which is a CAD-CAM software company with a presence in over 60 countries.

Delcam has always considered “After Sales Support” as “The Defining Factor” and the only possible way to achieve this was through a direct office. The first office was opened in Pune. Over the years Delcam opened offices throughout the country, now numbering 11. Delcam covers the length and breadth of the country with it’s network of offices having trained, dedicated and committed associates taking care of customer support. This has helped achieve the quick and positive upward growth that Delcam India has seen over the years.

Delcam India comprises of three Subsidiaries of Delcam PLC namely (1) Sales & Support, (2) Software Development & the recently opened (3) Engineering Services Division. The opening of the services division coincided with the inauguration of the company’s own new building which was done recently.

Speaking at the occasion Vineet Seth, MD – India and Middle East, said, “The CAD CAM business is divided into various verticals; We cater to the automotive, aerospace, toolmaking and some niche segments. The niche segments we excel in are jewellery, shoe design, orthopaedics and medical design, among others.”

The Sales & Support, R & D, and Technical Consultancy Services also dwell upon each other mutually to bring latest technology to the forefront.

Delcam has approached the Industry in India with application specific solutions, rather than generalised ones, which have produced profitable results for the customer consistently. This has been possible with the dedication of Delcam’s Sales & Support team which has been on its toes ever since Delcam started operations in India.

Delcam’s belief is to be in close contact with the customers, so as to comprehend the minutest of problems faced by them in their manufacturing cycle, which helps respond quicker to them, and their problems are sorted out much faster. Delcam today has local sales and support offices in Kolkata, Ludhiana, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolhapur, Rajkot, Bangalore, Chennai, , Coimbatore, & Hyderabad.

Mr. Pulak Mukherjee, Director Delcam Software India Pvt. Ltd, said, “For our customers, time is money, and any non-productive time on their machines is a loss. Our efforts are always to maintain that there is no down-time for our customers.

Delcam India shares their success story with their 70+ associates, most of who have been with the organisation from very early days. Delcam has always aimed to provide a very good work culture to all it’s associates which is based on trust, respect and inspiration.

About Delcam

Delcam PLC is one of the world’s leading suppliers of advanced CADCAM software product development solutions for the manufacturing industry. The company has grown steadily since being founded formally in 1977, after initial development work at Cambridge University, UK. It is now the largest developer of product design and manufacturing software in the UK, with subsidiaries in North America, Europe and Asia. Delcam’s software is used by more than 15,000 organisations in over 80 countries.

COMPANY PROFILE

Delcam’s software are used for the following categories:-

Engineering & Machining:-

• 5 Axis Machining

• High Speed Machining

• Automated Machining

• Adaptive Machining

• Inspection

• Mould Making

• Reverse Engineering

• Tool Making

• Swiss Turn

• Port Machining

Transport Solutions:-

• Aerospace

• Automotive

• Composites

• Marine

• Inspection

• Tyres

Plastics & Packaging

• Mould Making

• Packaging

• Automotive Plastics

• Product Design

Consumer Products

• Ceramics & Cutlery

• Engraving & Cabinet Making

• Footwear

• Jewellery

• Product Design

• Signmaking & Woodworking

• Toys

Medical & Dental

• Dental

• Medical

• Orthotics

• Orthopaedics

Other Solutions offered (Software that is non-industry specific)

• Custom Services

• CAD Translation

• Collaborative Manufacturing

• Education

• Rapid Prototyping

Delcam’s various softwares:-

PowerMILL

PowerMILL is the world’s leading specialist NC CAM software for the manufacture of the complex shapes typically found in the toolmaking, automotive and aerospace industries. Key features include a wide range of strategies, including the latest high-efficiency roughing, high-speed finishing, and 5-axis machining techniques, exceptionally fast calculation times and powerful editing tools to ensure optimum performance on the machine tool.

PowerSHAPE

PowerSHAPE CAD software provides a complete environment to take your product ideas from concept to reality. PowerSHAPE offers unrivalled freedom to manipulate surface form of the CAD model, to build from wireframe and make global changes with solid feature operations and editing. PowerSHAPE follows the philosophy of “Simple to create, easy to modify”. PowerSHAPE includes all PowerSHAPE’s core hybrid modelling tools as well as a number of features that are focused specifically upon the needs of designers.

PowerINSPECT

Inspection equipment and processes are both undergoing rapid changes as companies move from using 2D drawings to CAD models as the preferred method for product definition. This change, coupled with the rising demand for companies to prove the quality of their products, has led to a growing demand for inspection methods that can be used throughout the prototyping, manufacturing and assembly chain. With these techniques, any problems can be highlighted earlier in the development process and so be corrected more quickly and at lower cost.

ArtCAM

The ArtCAM software product range provides a unique CAD modeling and CNC CAM machining solution. ArtCAM allows you to create high quality products from 2D artwork faster than you ever thought possible. ArtCAM is the complete software solution for 3D Jewelry Design, 3D Woodworking, 3D Signage, 3D Engraving and 2D CNC Routing.

CopyCAD

In recent years reverse engineering has been seen as a necessary yet time consuming engineering process, invariably requiring highly skilled resources. This is no longer the case as CopyCAD is quick, simple and interactive, offering even casual users the power to quickly solve engineering problems, from closing the loop on development cycles with copy milling, to feeding free form organic surfaces into the front end of the design project. By embracing the potential of scanned point cloud data, CopyCAD offers solutions constrained only by the imagination of the user.

Exchange

Exchange is Delcam’s CAD translation solution. Exchange is a powerful stand alone CAD translator program capable of translating from many popular CAD input formats to many output formats (see what’s new). Downloading Exchange and opening and viewing files from all compatible systems is free and without obligation – and everything is confidential as you don’t have to send any of your CAD data files over the internet. You only pay when you chose to save the files you have translated on a pay-per-translation basis by credit card.

FeatureCAM

FeatureCAM, developed by Delcam, is a suite of CAD/CAM software which combines cutting edge technology with ease of use. FeatureCAM automates machining and minimizes programming times for parts on mills, lathes and wire EDM.

PartMaker

PartMaker applies a Patented Visual Programming approach to make CNC programming quicker and easier. PartMaker is a Windows-developed CAM system that utilizes Knowledge Based Machining to greatly reduce part programming time – 70% in fact, versus competing systems

CrispIn

Delcam Crispin CAD Suite is a PC-based system which is made up of several software modules. Each module can be used independently of the others and combined give a full ShoeDesign to manufacturing solution, including TechPac a comprehensive production instruction system.

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