Fluid Components International Reduces Time to Market for Quality Instrumentation With Adept Document Management

QUAKERTOWN, PA, Mar 26 (MARKET WIRE) --
In the highly competitive manufacturing industry, time to market is one of the
primary
indicators of survival and success. Fluid Components International LLC (FCI),
who designs fluid flow, level, temperature and pressure monitors and meters for
industrial and nuclear processes, as well as on-board aircraft applications,
agrees. FCI replaced its electronic flat file system with Adept document
managementsoftware from Synergis Software to get its engineering and business
documentation
under control so that it could bring its products to market faster.

"One of our key challenges is reducing the time to market for new products,"
affirmed Eric Wible, Director of Engineering at FCI. "Our ability to design,
develop and produce quality instrumentation is a key factor to growth in our
current markets as well as expanding into new markets. This process is
directly tied to our internal capability to control and easily find our
intellectual property and proprietary information, which is primarily in the
form of
engineering documentation."

Karyn Dawes, Document Management Supervisor at FCI, headed up the evaluation
process. Because FCI's Aerospace Division had standardized on SolidWorks
design software and its Industrial Division was migrating to SolidWorks from
AutoCAD, compatibility with both platforms was at the top of her well thought
out criterion. Dawes' criterion included proven success at other ISO approved
companies as well as a powerful database, document security, searching, viewing,
and reporting capabilities. Of course, being user friendly and affordable was
high on the list. Only Adept, one of the SolidWorks Gold PDM Partners
products, met all the criteria.

Prior to implementation, Dawes attended the Administrator Training course at
Synergis' headquarters and later scheduled nearly 100 others to be trained
in two days. "Initially, we brought 20 years of data and more than 50,000
records into Adept. What I learned from that effort is that it's better to
implement a new system in stages and bring in only clean electronic data
first," advised Dawes.

FCI uses Adept in Engineering and other departments to manage product design
information including drawings, parts lists, operation sheets as well as
general business and ISO-certified marketing documents. "Adept's powerful
capabilities can benefit virtually every department," concluded Wible.

About Synergis Software

Synergis Software creates, implements, and supports document management
software
that helps organizations manage, share and control their design and office
documents throughout the enterprise. Adept is simple to learn and easy to use
and maintain, enabling companies to achieve significant improvements in process
automation, design collaboration and business organization. For more information
or to register for a live presentation of Adept, please contact Synergis
Software at
215.529.9900/800.836.5440 or visit www.synergis-adept.com.

All products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
companies.
Copyright 2008 Synergis Software, a division of Synergis Technologies, Inc. All
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Contact:
Cindi Goodsell
Public Relations
(510) 479-9015
goodsell@peoplepc.com

Martha Lubow
Synergis Software
(215) 529-9900, x110
martha.lubow@synergis.com

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