T-FLEX DOCS

The main articles are:

• Product Lifecycle Management
• EDMS (more)
• IT Project Management

The T-FLEX DOCs software package is designed to solve the problems of design, technological and organizational and administrative document management, as well as comprehensive management of engineering data of the enterprise. T-FLEX DOCs is the basis for the PLM + concept offered by Top Systems.

2024: T-FLEX DOCs 17

In October 2024, Top Systems released a large-scale update of the T-FLEX DOCs 17 system, designed for comprehensive management of the enterprise's engineering data, as well as solving the problems of design, technological and organizational and administrative document management. The updates affected the most important functionality. This was announced on November 13, 2024 by representatives of the Top Systems company.

According to the company, to optimize the navigation of the process, a visualization of the number of current actions has been added to work directly on the process diagram, next to the work. This allows you to go directly from the process diagram to certain actions for work.

To optimize reading and understanding of the workflow logic, a tooltip has been added, which is displayed on states and transitions in the procedure editor. This allows you to analyze the logic of the flow chain directly in the process diagram. For the end user, the scheme remains compact, but for the administrator and process owners, such visualization optimizes the monitoring and debugging of complex processes.

Added Object Change Pending block type, which allows you to pause the process until one of the objects in the process changes. By default, any parameter of any object in the process is expected to change. To wait for a specific setting to change, the Track Changes to Selected Settings flag and the Tracked Settings list have been added. This option enhances the ability to more accurately define events and allows you to create more complex process logic.

Block for Event in Business Process

Time charts are an important item in the visualization of objects that are time-bound and can be displayed in the Timeline. Fine-tuning visualization helps simplify understanding of charts, focus on selected information, and optimize navigation of objects in the system.

It is possible to make additional settings for the chart style: the color of the selected line, the line height step and the element height from the line step, the indentation of external text.

As a result of collective work, many intermediate versions of objects can accumulate in the system, which have no value and will never be borrowed for any work. To clear the system of these elements and optimize the system, the ability to delete object versions has been added.

The ability to delete versions of objects is regulated by the updated access operation, if any, the user can delete irrelevant versions of the object in the version dialog, while the fact of deletion will be recorded in the system log.

For automated cleanup, a mechanism has been added to remove legacy versions of reference objects through the settings for legacy removal rules. The mechanism allows you to filter the list of objects whose versions should be deleted, determine the number of saved versions, their storage time and delete mode - manual, automatic, or semi-automatic with the preparation of a list of deleted versions.

Embedding T-FLEX DOCs in the enterprise IT landscape is an important and important task. As part of the development of system integration and data transfer tools, the data exchange section has been improved.

To optimize the integration configuration, you have added the ability to set communication rules using a wizard that allows you to select the necessary directories, parameters, and links in visual mode.

Added the ability to start data exchange in accordance with a certain rule on a schedule. This will allow you to form special filtering criteria for uploading data, according to which the selection and export will be carried out with a given regularity. The name of the output exchange file is generated automatically.

In the context of the development of integration solutions with common information systems, a new type of data exchange rules has been added for. 1C The built-in rule is configured to work with a xml file 1C EnterpriseData structure. In this rule, you can specify an xsd file with types, or a folder with xsd files.

An important factor in the mastery and convenience of using complex composite applications by the operator is the type of workspace in the user window, its completeness and lack of congestion. To implement this approach, a dynamic interface is used, in which tools and commands correspond to the context of the user's work. The release adds the ability to customize the user interface, hide or display individual commands in the window. Visibility is determined by the setting specified in the Commands tab, where you can define the command set and the rules for displaying them in the selected mode. You can manage the command list using the Add and Remove commands.

The ability to fine-tune the user interface is also enhanced by the implementation of hiding the button bar in the panels of the reference window. The behavior is configured in the Panel Settings tab of the Window Settings dialog box. The "Window Setup" dialog is expanded by adding a flag that prohibits changing the composition of columns.

Predefined filters allow you to quickly access information that meets the specified search criteria, which saves a large amount of operator time. Creating search conditions can be quite difficult, so users can create, view, edit, and delete search query parameters in the Search window for Filter mode.

To organize the work of a team of specialists, it is possible to create group orders with which subdivided individual orders are associated. To correctly change the dates of dependent orders, you have added the ability to synchronize the dates of the collective order with the nested orders. In this way, changing the date or key date for the collective order synchronizes the dates of the sub-orders.

Added the ability to create a link to the task. This allows you to send notifications about tasks to external mail to performers. Using a direct link from the mail notification, the user will be able to go directly to the T-FLEX DOCs system.

For objects of the Task type, you have added the ability to copy the record reference and properties from the context menu. You can also create a job reference using a macro language.

Creating a Job Reference

Many enterprises use a diverse fleet servers and client jobs for work, both under management and OS Windows. Linux To implement the ability to integrate T-FLEX DOCs applications into a complex IT environment, Windows domain capabilities were added Astra Linux ALD Pro through Kerberos and. LDAP

Thus, the T-FLEX DOCs server deployed on Linux now supports authorization in a Windows domain. Also, for clients and the T-FLEX DOCs server, authorization is implemented in a domain running Linux using Kerberos and LDAP.

To display process information, you have added the ability to dynamically view the process transition text using the T-FLEX CAD Data Viewer.

When working with comments, there is often a need to graphically point out shortcomings or controversial points directly in the image in the "red pencil" mode. Graphic annotation capabilities for images have been added to implement this collaborative method. The commands for adding graphic annotations are available in the Image Viewer control panel.

An important aspect of project execution is to monitor the execution of project tasks and predict the execution of both the tasks themselves and the entire project. To accurately account for the status of tasks, changes have been made to the calculation of the performance assessment. Now the result of working out the "Show forecast dates" command takes into account the percentage of work performed.

Displays forecast dates taking into account the percentage of work performed in the Gantt chart. To compare project schedules, you have added the ability to display synchronized projects on a single chart. The Compare with Detail and Compare with Zoom commands are available on the Synchronization tool menu.

Comparison and analysis capabilities have been added to compare projects in the resource management context. Added the ability to display plan values on the resource chart for resources used from the project shelved version, as well as differences with plan values from the project shelved version.

Compare the planned values of the resources used with the values from the deferred version of the project in a single diagram of the project management module

To create variability or make changes when managing product composition in some companies, an approach is used in which applicability is determined by the conditions associated with the product composition node, and the criteria are set at the root component level.

To support the work processes at these enterprises, instead of the mechanism of logical groups in the electronic structure of products (ESI), the mechanism "Auto-selection of revisions" was developed. If "Auto revision selection" system parameter for ESI connection is enabled, upon activation of "Conditions" flag in "Product" panel revision is selected in accordance with cascading conditions of revision selection and selected revision is inserted into assembly.

Added the ability to edit the grb document in the preview pane. Use the Edit, Save, and Undo commands to edit, save, or undo changes, respectively.

When implementing T-FLEX DOCs, you may want to save the CAD product structure to a reference book other than the electronic product structure. To do this, in the rule for configuring application integrations, the ability to define the target directory through the "Reference" parameter has been added. The reference book can be of any type: list, tree, complex hierarchy. The mapping of CAD types to reference types is configured in the tab.

Also added is the ability to specify product structure saving options for user reference books using a special dialog.

2021: T-FLEX DOCs 17.1

On May 24, 2021, Top Systems announced the update of T-FLEX DOCs to version 17.1.

Most of the changes affected two areas: further increasing the flexibility of settings for automation tools for basic mechanisms and algorithms, as well as full-text search tools.

Functions such as naming object revisions using the letters of the Russian alphabet (taking into account the rule for excluding individual letters) appeared, settings for the rules for assigning numbers appeared in the Codifier's directory, and others.

The full-text search mechanisms added the ability to specify words that the search text should not contain, the operators "Search by word," "Search by phrase," "Search by exact phrase" appeared. In general, search mechanisms have become more comfortable to use - convenient sorting of previously saved queries alphabetically has appeared, and personal and general filters have also been separated from each other.

For greater visibility and readability of data when working with tree structures with a large number of nesting levels, the ability to display node trunks is added, which greatly simplifies the perception of object occurrences at the lower levels of the hierarchy.

The navigation bar is now available for any type of reference book and allows you to quickly switch between individual directories, search folders and favorites without taking up space on the screen.

The general system navigation bar, which also has a compact view, now allows you to add various shortcuts to individual objects or system windows to it without leaving the compact display mode of this bar.

You can specify comments for additional parameters and display them in the List of Values.

The service functionality of the built-in mail subsystem has expanded. It became possible to use context filters for any folders, as well as the ability to quickly clear the "Assigned" folder, etc.

In general, there have been quite a few changes in the interface regarding the ability to perform various special actions on objects in any place where they are visible to users. For example, in the Object Usage control, you can now not only see objects in use or connected, but also perform the following commands: Go to Object, Open in New Window, Properties. In the Objects at Work window, you can immediately execute commands to apply changes to all objects displayed in it or to objects of a specific reference book. The set of available hotkeys has also expanded.

You have finished moving the Electronic Product Structure window to the mode of operation without modal dialogs. All product data tools are now available on dashboards that automatically open as part of the Reference Workbench. This allows you to make the data editing process more dynamic and convenient, since the interface is no longer blocked by pop-up dialogs, and the user can control all processes in the style and in the sequence that is most convenient for him. In particular, tools such as category management and configuration have been translated into the working panel mechanism.

The development of functionality for working with design contexts continued. This original teamwork and parallel design tool can now be included directly from the configuration panel. You can quickly create a design context without invoking special windows. In addition, switching the electronic product structure to work in a specific context automatically includes a special column in the window, which displays information about all changes that have occurred with product structure objects within this context.

Also, the design context is automatically taken into account when saving changes to the T-FLEX CAD design system, and the functions of transferring changes from the working context to the main one, as well as the functions of canceling changes to the context, are now available when you multiple select objects.

Separately, it is worth noting the increase in the flexibility of system algorithms for working with files of objects of the electronic structure of the product. The logic of their creation and naming is now placed in an editable macro.

The ability to quickly change the structure of an assembly from the PDM system has been enhanced by the ability to replace some objects with others directly from the Create and Replace panel. Now one panel solves all the basic tasks of working with the structure: you can use the search tools and select existing components to add to the product structure, create a new object, replace some objects with others, or exclude selected objects from the assembly. It also became possible to change the product structure by simply dragging objects into the affected assembly. The unified system tools of the T-FLEX PLM platform, which provide end-to-end editing operations for models and drawings of product structure objects, have become even more comfortable.

The Applicability Dashboard now allows you to change the applicability of multiple selected objects at once.

The process of approving and conducting change notices has become more flexible, both in terms of general logic, actively using change data from various design contexts, and check logic for original files.

In version 17.1, it added the ability to customize the columns for the "To any reference" link if a restrictive directory switch is set for this link. It is also possible to display objects of the second level of links without displaying the first (through the level).

Grouping of objects of the electronic structure of the product (ESI) by analogy with the window of the ESI reference book itself is implemented.

An important function has been added to cancel the creation of an object connection when an object is accidentally or incorrectly dragged.

The logic of sending an exception job according to the scheduled duration dates has been corrected, the rules for applying the Interrupt Process function have changed.

To increase the overall comfort of the administrator in the process monitor, you can now configure the number of records loaded when the window is opened, and data filtering tools have appeared in the window itself.

This is one of the most important tools of the T-FLEX PLM platform. In T-FLEX DOCs 17.1, project management tools are enriched with the following functionality:

• A mechanism for the enlarged calculation of the fund of resources-divisions has appeared. You have entered a time schedule restriction when you do not have access to change a project item.
• The commands "Show forecast dates" and "Show critical path" are implemented when displaying the planned project.

• Resource grouping now takes into account the base unit of measure.
• The Copy Project Editor Link command has been added. It became possible to recalculate the duration of work according to the specified load of the used resource.
• A number of commands have been added to constrain multiple project elements.
• In the resources, when dragging, a check for the correspondence of base units was added, a dialog was added with the selection of the state for incoming works (objects) when changing the state of the total work.
• The mechanism for changing states during synchronization has been redesigned..

When you load an earlier version of a file into view, other associated files are also loaded to display assemblies correctly.

Changes to the T-FLEX DOCs API Reference Guide and Macro Language:

• Added a description of how to debug macros using Visual Studio.
• A search on the help in Russian has been implemented.
• Added syslog API examples.
• Added examples for working with macrolanguage accesses.

T-FLEX DOCs 17.1 has improved data exchange tools with third-party systems. Control over the availability of settings for individual parameters, processing of events for the start and end of the data exchange process with the formation of a list of transferred objects was introduced.

Key changes included in the T-FLEX DOCs 17.1 administration tools:

• Extended information stored in the system log. "Session ID" and "User ID" are added to the number of fixed parameters.
• A warning has been added when activating the directory in case owner support is installed, but its access is not set.
• For additional parameters, separate commands for connecting and creating for a certain type of directory "Create parameter for type," "Connect to type" have been added.
• Added comments to Advanced Options aliases.
• When changing the revision naming rule, the reference book is prompted to change the previously assigned revisions of existing objects.
• Added the ability to display links on connections of a complex hierarchy.
• The order of displaying parameters in directory management has been changed, parameter groups are displayed immediately after the directory parameters.
• A column has been added to the Show Table Structure command window to display the Guid of the parameter group.

The T-FLEX PLM server has added the ability to convert databases from Oracle to MS SQL Server, as well as a data masking utility for Oracle and PostgreSQL DBMS, which allows you to provide an additional level of data security.

2020: Updated to version 17

On November 12, 2020, Top Systems announced the release of the 17th version of the T-FLEX DOCs PLM system and solutions based on it.

T-FLEX DOCs 17, being the basis of the T-FLEX PLM complex, has become more focused on high-tech industries and modern production, as well as production with a large variety of manufactured products: rocket engineering, aircraft engineering, automotive, shipbuilding, helicopter construction, etc.

The system functionality allows you not only to manage the development of complex and ultra-complex products, but also provides the implementation of complex conceptual ideas of large customers, allows you to solve the problems of controlling serial numbers of products during their operation, batch management when working with batches.

T-FLEX DOCs version 17 includes many features and changes that take the system to the next level, providing an increasing number of product lifecycle management functions.

Key changes include significant improvements in electronic product structure management, configuration of complex high-tech products, option management, markup, measurement, geometry analysis in a single design environment (T-FLEX CAD + T-FLEX DOCs), major performance improvements for large data arrays, and more.

On the basis of T-FLEX DOCs 17, a requirements management system has appeared, which made it possible to seriously raise the level of tasks solved by the T-FLEX PLM complex when organizing the development of complex products thanks to the full support of the product design methodology based on requirements.

Also, on the basis of T-FLEX DOCs 17, a system for managing master data and regulatory reference information for corporate use was released, which is already being implemented at Russian enterprises.

2018: Updated to version 15

Top Systems, a developer of design, preparation and production planning automation systems, in January 2018 announced the release of the next version of the corporate system, which is the basis for the T-Flex PLM software package and is intended for managing engineering data and documents - T-Flex DOCs 15.

The various configurations of the T-Flex DOCs system are ready-made solutions for a wide variety of tasks in the process of designing, preparing and managing production. The development of version 15 was planned based on extensive experience in its use at a large number of customer enterprises, the company explained.

During the development of T-Flex DOCs, special attention was paid to the implementation of such tasks as:

• Increase efficiency for a large number of users in the face of an ever-growing number of information objects under system control. In particular, the structures of the products on which the system was tested totaled tens of millions of objects.
• Improve user interface convenience and visibility. Numerous wishes and suggestions of users from various industries and applications of the system have been implemented. This made it possible to create a flexible tool for solving the most common production tasks.
• Expansion of functional capabilities of the system application. T-Flex DOCs 15 has many functions that will allow the system to be used in various areas of enterprise and corporate automation.
• Development of ready-made application solutions. T-Flex DOCs version 15 provides users with a number of ready-made solutions that do not require additional configuration before application.
• Improving integration capabilities. Significantly expanded functions that provide interaction with other systems and applications in a wide variety of areas and applications.

According to the developers, T-Flex DOCs 15 has a number of significant functional improvements:

• Updated user interface;
• Connect to multiple servers;
• Event subscriptions;
• Work with assignments;
• Task management;
• Product structures;
• Production Engineering Preparation Management;
• Web server;
• Web services;
• Data exchange;
• Project Management;
• PostgreSQL support;
• Performance analysis tools.

The trial version (30 days trial use) of T-Flex DOCs 15 is available for download on the website tflex.ru.

2015

T-FLEX DOCs 14.1 Update

On July 13, 2015, Top Systems announced a large-scale update of the T-FLEX DOCs^[1] system^[1].

The company, according to its statement, took a noticeable step to meet the interests and wishes of customers: an interim cumulative update T-FLEX DOCs 14.1 was released.

Additional T-FLEX DOCs 14.1 features include:

• The server side of the system optimizes the access check mechanism
• added the ability to compress traffic between the client and the server.

As a result of this work:

• the speed of data exchange between the client and the server has significantly increased,
• accelerated work with lists of documents and files,
• the speed of access verification has increased so much that it is almost equal to the benchmarks for reading and loading data without any checks.

Setting Access Modes, 2015

The functionality of the project management system has been replenished:

• Optimized import and added project export to MS Project.
• The ability to automatically build a project work tree based on the product composition tree has been added. It is important to note that the system synchronizes the project work structure with product structure changes throughout the project. Today it is a unique functionality for such systems.
• You have the ability to control access to resource changes.
• The Project Inspection Tool now allows you to quickly detect and infer collisions related to project resources.
• The project print command has been seriously redesigned, a preview window with print settings has been added.

Added a set of service functions, minor improvements, data optimization and other tools useful in real use.

The development of the functionality of the mechanism of a single information and reference system, on the basis of which the entire T-FLEX PLM platform was built, continued. A new access inheritance mode, highly demanded by users, has been added, in which explicit access to an object does not cancel inheritance from parent objects. It became possible to explicitly specify how and which objects are affected by the established access: only on the object itself, only on its children objects, or on the entire branch of the hierarchy.

Work was done to optimize work with large tree structures in such important operations as copying and borrowing objects. Now the execution of these processes has become much more comfortable.

It is known that no serious implementation of the system is complete without the development of small specialized macros that automate the tasks of the subject area of ​ ​ PLM solutions. In this regard, serious attention was paid to the refinement of the tools for creating, debugging and using macros in C#.

As a result:

• A new report generator has been added - the T-FLEX CAD report generator, which is designed to generate complex specifications and similar design and technological documents.
• The IntelliSense mechanism (automatic prompts when entering macros) has been added to the flowcharts - a serious step towards simplifying the process of creating a macro by a non-specialist. For the same purposes, the interface for editing block diagrams has been significantly improved and simplified.
• Additional event handlers have been added when you modify objects and work with the Recycle Bin.
• A simplified CAD document API has been added.

The changes also affected the user interface of the T-FLEX DOCs system:

• Enhanced window appearance and search engine capabilities
• there are opportunities in catalog management,
• Simplified and enhanced security password interface
• much more.

T-FLEX DOCs Tasks

T-FLEX DOCs Capabilities

• Technical Document Management
• Office and clerical document management
• Organizational and administrative document flow
• Enterprise Archive Maintenance, Enterprise Data Warehouse
• Project Management, Resource and Cost Planning
• Mail and assignments. Business Process Management (Workflow)
• Integration into ERP systems
• Maintaining the range of products, corporate directories and classifiers
• Manage product composition, configurations, and versions
• Interoperability with known CAD systems
• Creating Custom Information Systems

Technical Document Management

T-FLEX DOCs ensures the unity of all design and process data and supporting information. Structured storage allows you to work with any data. These can include design drawings, 3D models, BOMs, lists, part material information, process plans, NC programs, etc. The specialized reference book of the company's nomenclature stores all the necessary information about the applicability of parts and assemblies. The tools for managing and forming product compositions provide all the necessary means of searching and selecting analogues, as well as a mechanism for borrowing objects. Means of automatic creation of designations and names of objects in accordance with classifiers, standard types of design and technological documents and rules for inheritance of designations will ensure maximum productivity of the designer. T-FLEX DOCs allows you to store and quickly find almost any regulatory reference information, as well as various advertising or marketing documents and much more.

Office and clerical document management

T-FLEX DOCs has a number of functions, thanks to which users get all the necessary tools for registering electronic documents and monitoring the execution of orders. A set of templates of standard office documents will save time when creating and writing standard documents, and the mechanism for sending orders with convenient means of monitoring execution and notification will allow you to carry out all the main business procedures with maximum efficiency. T-FLEX DOCs contains logging functions and case items that are fully compliant with workflow standards. For office services, the system provides a specialized user interface setting that allows you to quickly perform all the actions necessary in the office from a single window, the functionality of which can be expanded to perform various highly specialized tasks. Thus, the system allows you to organize the simplest document flow, built on the principles of "Instructed-Performed-Checked," in which all the necessary documents are involved.

Organizational and administrative document flow

• Registration of documents in accordance with standards. T-FLEX DOCs includes a reference book in which registration and control cards (SRC) are created and filled out, registration logs with which the mechanism for forming registration numbers, a list of cases, a rubricator, and a number of different auxiliary reference books are associated.
• Maintain logbooks and case items. The standardized document logging mechanism implemented in T-FLEX DOCs allows you to group electronic documents according to your organization's rules of work. The means of maintaining the nomenclature of cases fully comply with the standards and allow the clerk not only to perform typical functions of writing off processed documents into cases, but also to conduct an operational search for registration and control cards of documents by case numbers and parameters.
• Formation of registration numbers. The most flexible tool for setting up rules for generating registration numbers allows you to automatically form a number of almost any complexity and structure.
• Working with electronic documents of any type. T-FLEX DOCs allows clerks to work with any necessary data: documents of various types, all kinds of information about contracts, partner and dealer organizations, protocol data of negotiations and much more.
• Coverage of all business units. The functions of the T-FLEX DOCs system allow employees of various departments to record the implementation of resolutions and instructions, quickly associate them with all kinds of data, documents and drawings that are being directly worked on.

Enterprise Archive Maintenance, Enterprise Data Warehouse

T-FLEX DOCs has a number of specialized tools for managing data structures. Unique tools allow you to organize any possible ways to link objects of different types, as well as describe the logic of interaction of such objects. This mechanism is the basis for the organization of a single data warehouse, which can operate with any data and store objects of any subject orientation: from product structures and enterprise nomenclature to contact lists of customer organizations and suppliers.

Project Management, Resource and Cost Planning

• Project planning and control. To solve planning problems, the project management module, which is part of the system, is designed. Simple and visual tools for building a project work tree are available to the user. Each work can be divided into separate sub-paragraphs to any acceptable level of detail. Presented in the form of a traditional Gantt chart, the project can be used for several purposes: managing the timing of planned works, setting the sequence of their execution and start-up conditions.
• Manage business process logic. In T-FLEX DOCs, you can describe and standardize the logic of all the main business procedures that guide the work of departments and individual employees. Any project activity can be described as one or more business processes. Thus, starting with planning a general list of works, you can gradually switch to organizing the work of specific performers.
• Flexible project resource management and cost estimation. T-FLEX DOCs allows you to quickly specify the set of resources that will be involved in any project task. All resources can be planned and described from the point of view of the cost schedule, i.e. the system allows you to specify when and according to what scheme money will be spent on a particular resource. The system allows you to quickly see the spending schedule for the entire project, quickly view the cost schedules for individual resources, compare with each other and assess the overall picture.
• Start and monitor the project execution process. The T-FLEX DOCs system allows you to develop a new project structure. You can immediately run it for execution by simply issuing a task. The system decides for itself which responsible users should be notified. At the same time, the project manager and managers always have the opportunity to clearly evaluate the entire process both on a project-wide basis and on any individual work.
• Interaction of all project participants. The system makes it possible to specify the responsible contractor, the planned deadlines for the completion of work, as well as the controller and the control period. Any performer can accept the task and begin to fulfill it or refuse to work, arguing his refusal. The guarantor receives notifications about any actions of the executors, which makes it possible to manage the project.
• Prompt adjustment of deadlines at any stage of the project. The T-FLEX DOCs system allows you to make any operational adjustments to the project execution plan, both in terms of time and scope of work. At any time, the project can be "frozen" and a new version of the project will be created on its basis.
• Link project tasks to data and documents.
• The structure of reference books allows you to establish any links between objects.
• Flexible access solves security and secure storage.
• A unique mechanism for applying changes and automatically versioning with the ability to quickly return to any of them.
• A fully customizable user interface allows you to quickly select and group data.
• The search system allows you to find data, display them in the desired form, disclose any information related to the found data, and, if necessary, display it in the form of reports of various formats.

Mail and assignments. Business Process Management (Workflow)

T-FLEX DOCs has all the necessary functions of organizational and administrative document management and allows you to combine the work of any departments of the enterprise into a single whole: from the office to the design and technological services. The system allows organizing multi-level control of the performing discipline, including: traditionally adopted simple and hierarchical resolutions, automatic notifications of performers and managers about all stages of work, monitoring the timing and appointment of supervisors. BPM is an important and integral part of many T-FLEX DOCs solutions. The functions of the module are aimed at automating the processes of user interaction during a wide variety of work. T-FLEX DOCs has a convenient task tool to ensure clear and prompt coordinated actions during project work. The program contains, among other things, a specialized calendar window, in which the user is given the opportunity not only to see the control dates of all his works and orders, but also to quickly create reminders for himself and make various entries.

Integration with ERP systems

The T-FLEX DOCs system constantly processes the emergence and transformation of structures of developed products and information about the technology of their production and assembly. This information can be transferred to various production management systems both through unified XML exchange files and through the creation of specialized software modules.

Maintaining the range of products, corporate directories and classifiers

The Product Item Master Data is an automatically generated list of all objects that are or may be involved in the products.

A special tool of the T-FLEX DOCs system - directory management - makes it possible to create an arbitrary directory folder structure, a rule can be associated with each of them, according to which only the necessary data will be selected from a huge directory. In addition, you can create folders with arbitrary content. The set of reference books included in the delivery kit of the T-FLEX DOCs system includes everything you need: from technological equipment to a reference book.

The system provides the possibility of automatic filling of the main parameters of the objects included in the product. This function allows you to describe the structure and logic of the internal relationships of the classification code for almost any of the known classifiers. Classifiers are also included in the delivery.

Manage product composition, configurations, and versions

• Means of organization of work with data of the product composition. The system allows you to take into account all possible options and preferences of users in terms of organizing work with data and their storage. Options for storing parts and assembly units in different reference books are possible separately from standard and purchased products, as well as combined storage of all design and technological information.
• The function of automatically matching an existing object. In T-FLEX DOCs, you can group object types according to a common identification rule. In other words, if you need an object with a known name or designation, the system itself will find all suitable (similar) objects or, if there are none, will create a new one.
• Manage product composition versions. T-FLEX DOCs has a universal version mechanism that allows you to track changes in product compositions. This makes it possible to quickly undo any changes and return to any of the previously saved versions of the object.
• Prototype mechanism. As a prototype, both a separate object and an entire node can be used. The use of prototypes not only significantly speeds up the process of forming the product composition, but also significantly reduces the likelihood of errors in the formation of the product structure.
• Organization of collective work on the project. The mechanism allows you to conduct convenient and conflict-free product design by an almost unlimited team of developers.
• Creation of standard design and process documents, reports and lists. When forming the composition of any product, the system automatically generates a main design document - a specification, which is a standard report available for modification or reconfiguration.
• Change notices. The built-in tool for issuing and conducting change notifications not only provides the user with all the service necessary for this, working in exact accordance with the ESKD rules, but also allows you to automate many actions to directly carry out changes, which significantly speeds up the process and reduces the likelihood of errors.

Interoperability with known CAD systems

T-FLEX DOCs has ready-made integration modules for almost all the most popular design systems, including T-FLEX CAD, Solid Works, Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, Compass, Pro/E and Siemens NX.

Creating Custom Information Systems

• Support for .NET technology. The T-FLEX DOCs API allows you to create scalable applications based on the.NET standard, so developing user applications does not take much time, several dozen programming languages ​ ​ are supported. Custom applications are independent of T-FLEX DOCs version updates.
• Organization of remote work via the Internet. To organize such work, only a regular Internet connection and the presence of a secure communication channel (VPN) are required.

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