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This project offers a new approach to looking at how information is used and controlled within an organisation. The findings will be applicable to both design and manufacturing, and manufacture to print businesses. The only solutions currently available to SMEs are high value products that constrain the user to a particular software solution. With ever increasing usage of open databases more bespoke applications can be written which can be changed to suite a particular business. This paper discusses the process that the six SMEs within the DOCIT programme undertook to achieve effective control of their design and manufacturing information. The methods employed are explained along with some of the innovative findings, and the solutions discussed in detail. The DOCIT processes have shown that controlling this information will reduce wastage within the companies to between 5% and 10% of their turnover.
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Hodgins, D.J. (1998). Design Office Control using Information Technology (DOCIT). In: Jacucci, G., Olling, G.J., Preiss, K., Wozny, M.J. (eds) Globalization of Manufacturing in the Digital Communications Era of the 21st Century. PROLAMAT 1998. IFIP - The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35351-7_8
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