Plotstream Overview for Project Controls
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 Focus on design - not plotting
Historical look-backs
Improve team productivity
Log every plot
Reduce Costs
Reduce Risk
Focus on design - not plotting
A Plotstream enabled environment allows you to refocus efforts back on what
you do best - design. Your own expert(s) set and control the plotting
environment for your corporate standards and project specifications. Your
team can
then create the plots they want, when they want them.
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Historical look-backs
Because Plotstream logs each plot, guesswork is eliminated and historical
information is easily accessible. Now you will confidently know how many
D-size plots were made for "Project XYZ" last month on the "ABC500" plotter.
Harvesting this information allows you to calculate efficiencies, project
plotting costs, throughput, consumable usage, and more. You can easily
access valuable data that can be used for marketing, estimating, budgeting,
process optimization, etc.
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Improve team productivity
Now users can create one or hundreds of plots with ease. Traditionally, each
drawing file had to be opened in AutoCAD®, configured for plotting, submitted
to the plotter. Users would then wait on the drawing to be processed on the
workstation. Each drawing could take several minutes to configure, submit,
and process. This is repeated for each drawing in the set. On a large
project this could take hours or days while the user is not drawing or
designing anything. Plotstream automates this entire process. The Plotstream
server(s) performs all of the processing - not the users' workstations.
Users are able to do what they were hired for - designing and drawing.
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Log every plot
Each plot produced through the Plotstream system is silently entered into an
easily accessible log. The logged information can be used to troubleshoot as
well as to calculate efficiencies, project plotting costs, throughput,
consumable usage, and more. Plotstream also integrates into several of the
industry leading cost recovery and print tracking systems. Plotstream data
is transparently passed to these applications without any user intervention.
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Reduce Costs
Plotstream is designed from the ground-up to save resources and address the
real issues of add-ons, upgrades, integration costs, costly training, and
third-party hardware/software proliferation now faced by users in the
enterprise AutoCAD®environment. With Plotstream, you will save on AutoCAD®
licensing, third-party plot drivers, controllers, rippers, training, and
hardware. Plotstream offers an outstanding ROI that will free up valuable
resources.
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Reduce Risk
Plotstream will reduce risks associated with project drawings by increasing
accuracy and consistency. Plotstream's project-centric methodology places
the control and responsibility of the underlying technical aspects of
plotting on your plotting expert(s) instead of relying on each plot user to
correctly make all plotting decisions. Plotstream helps reduce the risk of
releasing drawings at the wrong revision level, incomplete sets, and more.
Plotstream also uses the best plot engine available for AutoCAD® - AutoCAD®
itself. No third-party plot engines can ever plot AutoCAD®
DWGs as well as AutoCAD®. Plots produced through Plotstream
are exactly like the original AutoCAD® plots because they are. When you release a plotted drawing set, you know it has
been produced to the specifications you require.
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