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Pumps & Valves Antwerp Show
The biennial Pumps & Valves in Antwerp trade shows occurs in Antwerp, Belgium on March 21 and 22, 2018 at the Antwerp Expo grounds. From the trade show website: Pumps & Valves in Antwerp is a trade fair for pumps and valves. This exhibition is communication...
Emerging Economies to Drive Global Valve Growth
Global Industry Analysts has produced a new report entitled Industrial Valves - A Global Strategic Business Report that shows that the global industrial valve market will reach $112 USD by 2024 and that much of the expected growth will come from emerging markets....
Outsourcing Help For Supplier Document Control
Project set up can be a time-consuming and costly process when you consider the effort involved each time. In fact, document control from beginning to end can be time-consuming and frustrating - hence why we created DocBoss - especially if you're short staffed or...
Treating Documentation As Code
Last summer at the Write the Docs conference, a number of large companies such as Microsoft and Twitter were represented during a panel discussion on transforming documentation that was moderated by a staffer from Google. An interesting common thread arose with...
Upcoming Trade Show Schedule for 2018
Here are a list of upcoming oil & gas-related trade shows taking place in early 2018 in various parts of the world. European Gas Conference The 11th annual European Gas Conference runs in Vienna, Austria from January 29-31, 2018. West African International...
When A Document Controller Becomes A Manager
What does a document controller need to do when transitioning to a manager position? As with positions in other industries, becoming a manager involves utilizing a different set of skills and looking at the position in a different way as you transition to a role that...
Consepsys 2018 Document Control Salary Survey Is Open for Contribution
Document control training company Consepsys is gearing up to release its annual document control salary survey and they need your help. Each year since 2014, Consepsys has provided a detailed salary survey encompassing all sectors and levels of experience from...
Actuator Bremen Trade Show
Aimed at professional visitors, the Actuator Bremen show runs from Monday, 25. June to Wednesday, 27. June 2018 in Bremen, Germany. The biennial show will take place at the Bremen Messe (fairgrounds) and attracts a wide variety of professional visitors. From the fair...
Do You Help Your EPC Customers Solve Their Problems?
The global financial slowdown and continued depression of oil prices has reduced the number of projects that many companies are working on and thus reduced their profitability and need for staff. The difficulty of winning new projects - which are often few and far...
How Do You Locate Your Files?
Last summer we published a post showing that 1/3 of US and UK workers spend 5-25 minutes searching each time they look for an important document and it took up to 8 searches to find the correct document they were looking for. Sound familiar? One of the great things...
Selling A Document Control System to your Superiors
Are you a document controller or are you in the position of managing this function and are having difficulty justifying the purchase of an application like DocBoss that could help you get a better handle on document control? Cost is certainly a barrier for many firms...
DocBoss versus other document control options
Whereas DocBoss was specifically designed to help process equipment suppliers manage and deliver custom engineering documentation to customers at the end of projects, other popular applications commonly used for this work may or may not be document control specific....
One Year Later: Supplier vs EPC Survey
One year ago today, we released our document control survey entitled Supplier vs EPC: Why is Vendor Documentation so Painful? We surveyed 106 respondents - 45 process equipment supplier organizations and 61 EPCs - and asked them questions about their current document...
Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show Runs Next Week
The Canadian Manufacturing Show runs from September 25-27, 2017 at The International Centre in Toronto directly across the road from Pearson International Airport. From the official conference website: For more than 30 years, the CMTS audience from within Canada’s...
Is Documentation Bogging You Down?
In our last post we discussed the difference between internal document management versus external document control. We touched on some of the differences between each and why you might need a document control system over a document management system. If you tend to...
Internal document management versus external document control
Do you need a document management system or a document control system? Not all documentation that a company produces ends up getting sent externally outside the company to another company. Perhaps you're in the position of sending some documentation externally and...
11th International Valve Trade Fair & Conference
The 11th International Valve Trade Fair & Conference takes place in Dusseldorf, Germany from Nov 27-Nov 29, 2018. When last held in 2016, the conference was summarized as follows: To the tune of 20,000 square metres of exhibition space, 725 exhibitors from 40...
Valve World Americas Expo & Conference
It isn't too early to prepare for Valve World Americas Expo & Conference which will be held June 18 & 19, 2019 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. The fourth event was held in June 2017 and attracted 4,141 attendees from Canada, the...
August 2017 Release Notification
We're pleased to announce the August 2017 Release Notification to announce new functionality for all DocBoss customers. Highlights of this release include the following: Update to nav We updated our mega-menu, focusing in the most frequently used project areas. You...
Are Inefficiencies In Document Control A Problem For You?
A recent article posted on GCN.com discussed the importance of document management and how the government sector's organizational woes might be at least party explained by their lack of documentation prowess: Inefficiencies in the government have been the source of...
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