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ICSAM 2017: 19th International Conference on Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems
ICSAM 2017: 19th International Conference on Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems takes place in Barcelona, Spain on October 30 and 31, 2017. Topics of interest include actuators, solid-state sensors, fabrication and packing, nanotechnology and more. From the...
Oil & Gas Indonesia 2017 takes place September 13-16
Oil & Gas Indonesia 2017 (OGI) will take place from September 13-16 in Jakarta. This is the 11th International Oil and Gas Exploration, Production and Refining Exhibition to take place since its inception in 1995. The last show which took place in 2015 drew 9156...
Retaining Important Records With DocBoss
Are you required to retain important project documents and other records for legal or other reasons? Depending on the number of projects you run and the size of each, the amount of paperwork you produce can quickly become very cumbersome and difficult to organize....
Effectively Manage Returned Documents From Your Customers
How easy is it to receive and manage incoming transmittals, documents that your customer has returned to you? In a large project, it can become time-consuming and difficult to properly manage incoming documents and to ensure that you're not only working with the...
Make Documents Easily Available for Multiple Projects
Do you have a document(s) used in multiple projects that you'd like to have available quickly rather than searching your files each time it's needed? With DocBoss you can set up a library of all documents that are used regularly in multiple projects and by multiple...
Keep Your Projects On Time and On Budget
Do your projects often run over time and over budget? Can your current document control system tell you if a specific document is missing at any given time? How well can you keep tabs on where your project is at any given time? Check out the DocBoss Comparisons page...
Consepsys 2017 Document Control Salary Survey
Document control training company Consepsys has released their annual document control salary survey results for 2017. The survey comprises 587 complete contributions from 50 countries and 24 industries. If you've viewed the surveys from previous years you're aware of...
Providing Documentation to EPCs Doesn’t Have to Be Difficult
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,...
Key Areas to Improve Your Document Control Work
Here are the three main areas of improvement for process equipment suppliers to focus on to handle document control more efficiently.
Quickly Uploading Documents to DocBoss
Check out the short video below to see how easy it is to drag and drop projects documents into DocBoss.
2017 API Tanks, Valves, and Piping Conference & Expo
The 2017 API Tanks, Valves, and Piping Conference & Expo takes place from October 23-26, 2017 at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel in Seattle, WA. From the conference website: The 2017 API Tanks, Valves, and Piping Conference & Expo will give attendees an opportunity...
46th Turbomachinery & 33rd International Pump Users Symposia
The 46th Turbomachinery & 33rd International Pump Users Symposia (TPS 2017) takes place in Houston, Texas from September 12-14, 2017. The event is organized by the Turbomachinery Laboratory, a center of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and...
Getting Documents Approved The First Time
In our last post, we discussed holdbacks as it pertains to a delay in getting paid by your EPC customers due to you not delivering documentation correctly. Incorrectly provided documentation costs you money and increases the effort you have to provide to fix your...
Are Holdbacks a Problem at Project End?
When we conducted our survey entitled Supplier vs EPC, Why is Vendor Documentation so Painful in 2016, we revealed some interesting results regarding the issue of holdbacks at the end of projects. In particular, we found that it's a big issue for both suppliers and...
May 2017 New Release Notification
We're pleased to announce our latest DocBoss release for May 2017. This month we've focused on several key areas and have included a short video which you can access below to visually show you one of the changes. We made changes to the navigation preview several...
Do Your Submittals Get Rejected?
An increase in the amount and customization of engineering documentation provided to customers at the end of projects correspondingly increases the time and work involved to produce it.
Document control training from Mireaux Management Solutions
Mireaux Management Solutions is a Houston-based company that offers a wide variety of training services including 3 document control-specific training courses. From their website and in their own words: Mireaux Management Solutions is a technology and consulting firm...
When document control becomes too hard to manage
Many companies we speak with refer to how project documentation continues to increase in terms of both the amount of documentation provided and the customization required. Some businesses already have a good handle on document control so it's not a major issue. They...
An Ideal EDMS Will Do The Following…
Whether you’re a supplier of process equipment (manufacturer, fabricator, distributor, rep) who submits custom engineering documentation to customers or if you an EPC who receives documentation from your vendors, doing documentation better will make both you and your counterparts on the either side happier.
Is Email Good Enough For Submittals?
If you use email to send submittals to customers, you’re not alone. Our research shows that 90% of process equipment suppliers (manufacturers, fabricators, reps, distributors) use email to send and track submittals.
Focused largely on tagged equipment, DocBoss minimizes the manual work required to deliver project documentation.
We are here to answer any questions you may have about DocBoss and how we can help you improve your document control workflow.
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