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Is your documentation work costing you business?
Is it possible that the documentation that you provide to your customers at the end of projects is costing you future business?
Dealing with EPCs is slow and costly
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.
Private, public or hybrid cloud. What’s best for you?
The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 17.2 percent in 2016 to total $208.6 billion, up from $178 billion in 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. While public cloud computing is growing in popularity, it's not the only option. You might also...
Supplier Action Points for better Document Control
If you’re a process equipment supplier (manufacturer, fabricator, rep) who submits custom engineering documentation to your customers (EPCs) at the end of projects, how can you do this work better?
Vessels, Tanks, Skids and Document Control
If you produce vessels, tanks or skids, you already understand the complexity and growing importance of documentation produced for customers at the end of projects.
Define, Submit, Track, Complete
DocBoss helps you define, submit, track and complete your projects with ease while dealing with whatever your customers throw at you.
Metadata and Document Control
One of the more frustrating aspects of document control involves the manual nature of the work.
Billing for Documentation is More Acceptable Than You Think
Do you bill your customers for documentation work that you perform for them? If not, you might be surprised that more EPCs expect that they will be billed for such work than EPCs who don't. We know this because our recent survey Supplier vs EPC, Why is Vendor...
Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) Market Set To Grow
Two recent market research reports show that the Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) market is set to grow over the next few years with Latin American showing the biggest increase in value. Asia (excluding Japan) remains the largest single geographic area with regards to...
What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?
Do more experienced document controllers demand more sophisticated systems, or are these skilled people gravitating to companies that already have better tools in place?
What Frustrates Suppliers and EPCs the Most?
If you're a supplier of process equipment who sends custom documentation to your customers or if you're an EPC who receives documentation from your vendors, what is your biggest frustration(s) working with the other party? A few months ago, we set out to answer this...
How to make your Mill Test Reports a piece of cake
Managing documentation has always been part of a fabricator's world. But now there are growing requirements for how to prepare and submit those documents to your customers. Mill Test Reports (MTRs) of course are a key deliverable. Not only do you have to scan, index...
Making transmittals a breeze
How difficult and time-consuming is it for you to put transmittals together for your customers at the end of projects? DocBoss creates customer transmittals for you so that you can deal with whatever your customer throws at you. DocBoss creates transmittal summaries...
Why Is Vendor Documentation So Painful?
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.
Is your document control work done manually or with software?
Is document control something you do manually – using Microsoft Excel or perhaps a paper-based method – or do you use software such as a dedicated document control application?
Collect Better Data, Better
Now that DocBoss can help EPCs and owners receive documentation from their vendors, it’s worth taking a look at specifically how you can make your vendors lives easier while also helping yourself in the process.
How To Manage Vendor Documentation Better
DocBoss was designed to help process equipment suppliers deliver custom project engineering documentation to your customers and to help EPCs receive documentation from their vendors.
A Simple Guide to Document Control
Here's a great article in PDF format written by QEM Solutions entitled A Simple Guide to Document Control that discusses document control and how it pertains to ISO 9001. It also offers specific details on ISO 9001:2008 and the 7 Controls that it encompasses. There is...
What are Vendor Document Requirements?
Working with vendor documents is usually a time-consuming and manual process that increases the chances of duplication of effort and mistakes. Whether you are a supplier who submits documents to your customers or an EPC who receives them, vendor documents are...
MTR Packaging and Management in DocBoss
MTR packaging and management is a great feature of DocBoss that was designed to help manufacturers and fabricators deal with document control. DocBoss can use your traceability information to help you with your MTR packaging work. The decision on which method will...
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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