Orford Refrigeration Upgrades from AutoDesk WorkCentre to DataViewer and Solves CAD data Management Problems

ADELAIDE, South Australia, November 9, 2002 - Orford Refrigeration is a company at Toowomba in Queensland who manufacture a wide range of commercial and industrial refrigeration equipment. They have used AutoCAD for their design work since the 1980's, and now have about 16,000 DWG files to store and index. They save every customer's data so that they can refer back to it easily later. They often use previous data as a basis for new work. Hence, they need to be able to find files by search criteria other than just the file-names.

About five years ago, Orford Refrigeration adopted WorkCenter as their data management system for this purpose. However, recently, WorkCenter ceased being marketed, leaving users with support problems. Orford knew the value of a data management system and looked for a replacement.

They evaluated several data management systems, including some that had a particular emphasis on CAD and some that did not. At the end of the evaluation period, they chose DataViewer from Practical Programs Pty Ltd. An important factor was that the producers of DataViewer were prepared to help with the rather daunting task of extracting all the data out of WorkCenter's highly secure 'vault'.

One of the attractions of DataViewer for Orford refrigeration, was the considerable extent to which its methods of operation can be set up to suit individual situations and its wide range of scalability for very small and very large companies. It can use any of several 'industry standard' database systems, rather than having its own system. At Orford Refrigeration, they decided to use the Borland InterBase client/server system that is offered with DataViewer.

Orford Refrigeration is very happy with DataViewer. They like its very simple installation process; its flexibility to work with your own preferences for storage locations, access security mechanism and database system; its easy expandability and custom configuration; and its easy maintenance without needing special consultants. They feel secure that they are not likely to have another major upheaval of their data management system forced upon them, because DataViewer is easy to maintain and expand and the data is not locked secretly within it. DataViewer provides all the facilities and controls they are ever likely to need, and has no real limits on expansion of data or number of users.

 

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