Workflows
Digitally standardize, control and accelerate processes
Benefits
- Map and standardize recurring processes as process templates
- Speed up processes and ensure compliance
- Direct integration in task and project management
Use process templates for recurring processes
The graphical Workflow Designer makes it easy to map and display workflows. Regardless of whether you want to map sequential or parallel processes, integrate system tasks in the workflow or inform a certain group of people about the successful completion of a task, Workflow Designer allows you to model different types of tasks and individual sequences simply and flexibly. You can also provide templates that ensure that processes meet regulatory and best practice requirements.
Controlling technical changes reliably and flexibly with workflow templates
The engineering change process is defined as the sequence of engineering change request (ECR), engineering change order (ECO) and engineering change notification (ECN). The evaluation and processing of a technical change often requires collaboration between multiple departments and technical disciplines. Workflow templates that are specifically designed for change management help create these highly collaborative processes within a company efficiently and reliably.
The graphical Workflow Designer makes it easy to map and display workflows. Regardless of whether you want to map sequential or parallel processes, integrate system tasks in the workflow or inform a certain group of people about the successful completion of a task, Workflow Designer allows you to model different types of tasks and individual sequences simply and flexibly. You can also provide templates that ensure that processes meet regulatory and best practice requirements.
Controlling technical changes reliably and flexibly with workflow templates
The engineering change process is defined as the sequence of engineering change request (ECR), engineering change order (ECO) and engineering change notification (ECN). The evaluation and processing of a technical change often requires collaboration between multiple departments and technical disciplines. Workflow templates that are specifically designed for change management help create these highly collaborative processes within a company efficiently and reliably.
Speed up your processes and ensure compliance with workflows
The review and approval of documents usually involves employees from different departments who perform different functions, such as creating and reviewing the content. CONTACT Workflows allows you to make these tasks available to authorized persons with the respective function and role together with a deadline by which the task is in question needs to be completed, and relevant context information such as document references. Use CONTACT Workflow as a first-class control instrument within the framework of status control and progress monitoring.
Using digital signatures to ensure validity and legal compliance
Workflows are particularly well suited for controlled task allocation and approval procedures. In combination with CONTACT Digital Signatures, you can validate and speed up your processes: Special signature tasks ensure that the persons involved can digitally sign the document to be reviewed in a single work step, thus enabling processes to be handled quickly while at the same time ensuring validity and legal compliance. All the employees involved are automatically informed when documents are approved. In-process documentation ensures end-to-end audit-trail capability – what we call compliance in process.
Speed up your processes and ensure compliance with workflows
The review and approval of documents usually involves employees from different departments who perform different functions, such as creating and reviewing the content. CONTACT Workflows allows you to make these tasks available to authorized persons with the respective function and role together with a deadline by which the task is in question needs to be completed, and relevant context information such as document references. Use CONTACT Workflow as a first-class control instrument within the framework of status control and progress monitoring.
Using digital signatures to ensure validity and legal compliance
Workflows are particularly well suited for controlled task allocation and approval procedures. In combination with CONTACT Digital Signatures, you can validate and speed up your processes: Special signature tasks ensure that the persons involved can digitally sign the document to be reviewed in a single work step, thus enabling processes to be handled quickly while at the same time ensuring validity and legal compliance. All the employees involved are automatically informed when documents are approved. In-process documentation ensures end-to-end audit-trail capability – what we call compliance in process.
The review and approval of documents usually involves employees from different departments who perform different functions, such as creating and reviewing the content. CONTACT Workflows allows you to make these tasks available to authorized persons with the respective function and role together with a deadline by which the task is in question needs to be completed, and relevant context information such as document references. Use CONTACT Workflow as a first-class control instrument within the framework of status control and progress monitoring.
Using digital signatures to ensure validity and legal compliance
Workflows are particularly well suited for controlled task allocation and approval procedures. In combination with CONTACT Digital Signatures, you can validate and speed up your processes: Special signature tasks ensure that the persons involved can digitally sign the document to be reviewed in a single work step, thus enabling processes to be handled quickly while at the same time ensuring validity and legal compliance. All the employees involved are automatically informed when documents are approved. In-process documentation ensures end-to-end audit-trail capability – what we call compliance in process.
Directly access data and documents as part of the project processes
As soon as they can be processed, workflow tasks are displayed in the list of tasks to be completed and sorted according to their due date – just like any other task. This means that employees can keep track of the tasks they have to complete, the chronological order in which they need to be completed, and the documents and context information needed to do this. Additional information is displayed in the detail area to ensure that the task context is not overlooked.
Directly access data and documents as part of the project processes
As soon as they can be processed, workflow tasks are displayed in the list of tasks to be completed and sorted according to their due date – just like any other task. This means that employees can keep track of the tasks they have to complete, the chronological order in which they need to be completed, and the documents and context information needed to do this. Additional information is displayed in the detail area to ensure that the task context is not overlooked.
As soon as they can be processed, workflow tasks are displayed in the list of tasks to be completed and sorted according to their due date – just like any other task. This means that employees can keep track of the tasks they have to complete, the chronological order in which they need to be completed, and the documents and context information needed to do this. Additional information is displayed in the detail area to ensure that the task context is not overlooked.
Workflow Management is tool qualified for ISO 26262 standards
CONTACT Elements is tool-qualified by TÜV Nord in accordance with ISO 26262. In addition to the CONTACT Elements platform, the international technology expert has certified the products CIM Database for PLM and Project Office for project management, as well as Workflow Management and a number of other CONTACT Elements software modules. With this certification, TÜV Nord assures that our software fulfills the requirements of ISO 26262 for standards for software tools for the development of safety-relevant properties.
Related Elements
Fulfilling requirements to the letter
Document ideal procedures in a digital library
Use proven methods and sets of guidelines such as CAPA, 8D or APQP
Give your employees a way to apply process-related knowledge easily and reliably
Overview of all existing project tasks and direct access to context information
Use tasks to set the course for a smooth transition from project planning to implementation
Allow your project participants an optimal self-organization
Connect reliability with agility and keep track of the multi-project mode
Planning technical changes reliably, implementing them faster and ensuring traceable document them clearly
Accelerate change processes through digital workflows and standards
Simplify work with digital folders and Task Manager
Map change processes easily and flexibly and benefit from end-to-end documentation
Validate the analysis of technical changes using 3D models
Role-based, comprehensive regulation of access to project and product data along their processes, thus protecting know-how
Implement key requirements for know-how protection reliably throughout the entire company
Take advantage of the possibilities offered by a particularly powerful and dynamic rights system
Ensure validity control with reliable version management while at the same time providing support for collaboration
Verify documents and complex PLM objects faster and meet regulatory requirements
Speed up circulation procedures for verification and approval processes
Meet regulatory requirements and improve validity control and process reliability
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