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Cloud Computing Trends For 2018
A recent report entitled RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report discusses expected trends in 2018 regarding cloud computing and its impact on enterprises moving forward. The survey polled 997 IT professional and 53% of them work for enterprises with in excess of...
Electro Hydraulic Servo Valve Market 2023
A new report entitled Global Electro Hydraulic Servo Valve Market Analysis 2011-2017 and Forecast 2018-2023 is available from 360 Market Updates. All the major manufacturers are included such as Moog, Bosch Rexroth, Parker, Honeywell and more. All major regions are...
Annual Valve Manufacturers Association of America Meeting
The annual Valve Manufacturers Association of America (VMA) Meeting takes place from September 25-27, 2018 in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. To learn more about the meeting, visit the official website for more details. The website will be updated over the next few months with...
The Frustration of Document Control
Every company submitting documents to an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) partner faces the same problems: large volumes of manual work, coupled with complex (or unclear) expectations and procedures. This often leads to time-consuming rework,...
How Much Do You Charge For Your Documentation Work?
Providing documentation to customers - especially documentation customized for each customer's requirements - is a time-consuming and thus costly aspect of your business. How much do you charge your customers for this work to be done? Do you charge for this work? We...
Europump 2018 Annual Meeting in Brussels
The Europump 2018 Annual Meeting in Brussels occurs on May 17 and 18, 2018. At the time of writing, there isn't much available on the event's website but here is a short writeup: The 2018 Annual Meeting will take place in Brussels on 17 and 18 May 2018. It will...
Document Control Training in Calgary
If you're looking for document control training in the Calgary, Alberta area, there's a new company providing training that you might consider. ZanEdU offers a number of documentation-specific courses related to topics like Fabrication Documentation Management and...
Are You Investing in IT?
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion in 2018, an increase of 4.3 percent from 2017 estimated spending of $3.5 trillion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. With the first quarter of 2018 already in the books, what have you done to...
How Manual Is Your Document Control Work?
I recently had a conversation with a potential customer about their document control work and one of their (growing) problems is the (increasingly) manual nature of their work. In particular, they mentioned that they have a new customer who requires custom headers on...
ONS 2018 Conference
The biannual ONS conference takes place from August 28-30, 2018 in Stavenger, Norway. From the conference website, here's a short history of the show: ONS was short for Offshore North Sea, as the event was targeted at companies with business in the North Sea basin....
2nd Africa Oil & Gas Local Content Conference and Exhibition
The 2nd Africa Oil & Gas Local Content Conference and Exhibition takes place from June 14-16, 2018 in Luanda, Angola. From the official show website: The 2016 inaugural event, developed under the theme “Achieving an average rate of 30% of Local Content in...
East Africa Oil & Gas International Trade Show
The 7th East Africa Oil & Gas International Trade Show takes place May 29-31 in Nairobi, Kenya. Billing itself as "Africa's Prime Oil & Gas Expo" the event will attract visitors and exhibitors from a wide range of sectors including drilling & lifting...
Flow Forum Conference May 7-8, 2018
The Flow Forum Conference occurs in Chicago, IL from May 7-8, 2018 at The Westin O'Hare. From the conference website: Flow Forum 2018 is the premier event for industrial engineering knowledge transfer, arming new and veteran engineers with the skills necessary to...
What Do EPCs Think?
In our last post, we asked What Do Suppliers Think? about their work with EPCs. This time around, we give EPCs a chance to discuss what they think about their work with Suppliers like yourselves. This research was gleaned from our survey Supplier vs EPC, Why is Vendor...
What Do Suppliers Think?
EPCs make huge IT investments and work largely in the information space. With the volume of digitally stored data involved with most projects, information management is a necessary and critical competency. New documents and data being input into the systems must be...
Global Pressure Vessels Market Professional Survey Report 2017
Market Insights Reports recently produced a 129 page report entitled Global Pressure Vessels Market Professional Survey Report 2017 that covers results from 2012-16 and forecasts to 2022 for the global pressure vessel market with a focus on North America, China,...
Using Custom Levels to Create Procedure Registers
DocBoss creates most document registers automatically for your projects. Users select a level for each document code and DocBoss creates a register for each unique value called "Registers." Here is a video we put together in the past to show how you can use custom...
The Pump Industry Awards 2018
The Pump Industry Awards 2018 takes place in Oxfordshire, England on March 22, 2018. Awards such as Technical Innovation of the Year, Distributor of the Year and Manufacturer of the Year will be presented on the evening. From the event website: The Pump Industry...
8 Simple Rules For Submitting Vendor Documents
Here is a detailed video that describes 8 great rules to follow when submitting vendor documents. If you're having trouble organizing your project documentation or structuring your document control department, this is a great place to start....
DocBoss Welcomes New Customer: Endress + Hauser
We're very happy to welcome aboard a new Endress + Hauser office as a DocBoss customer. Endress + Hauser's Norway office has joined other E + H offices as active DocBoss users. Endress + Hauser has been a DocBoss customer since 2014 so we'd like welcome aboard their...
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