OpenText Content Management for Engineering
Streamline engineering document management across asset lifecycles
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Is your engineering content driving innovation and lifecycle efficiency?
Connect engineering drawings, specifications, and documents across departments throughout the equipment lifecycle. Speed decisions, boost performance, and drive innovation with a single source of truth for engineering teams in asset-intensive industries.
Why OpenText Content Management for Engineering?
Take advantage of engineering document management that controls content from design through the end of the lifecycle and is fully integrated with SAP to ensure accuracy, compliance, and collaboration across engineering and operations.
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view of your digital twin
Maintain a living digital twin by connecting engineering content to assets, products, operations, and SAP systems for accurate insights.
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with SAP for asset and product lifecycle control
Access critical engineering documents in context, directly from SAP transactions and work orders. - 1 source
of trusted information for engineering content
Ensure consistency and control with a single source of truth for engineering documents—spanning both asset and product lifecycles.
Thanks to OpenText [Content Management] for SAP Solutions, our engineers can look up anything they need quickly, wherever they are.
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Use cases
Streamline engineering document management processes, foster innovation, and build digital twin readiness with structured, accessible content.
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Centralize engineering drawings and specifications. Eliminate delays and rework by ensuring all stakeholders access the latest, approved versions, boosting collaboration, reducing risk, and keeping projects on track.
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Avoid last-minute handover chaos. Transfer validated project documentation progressively as construction advances. Build a complete digital asset repository so operations teams start with accurate, trusted content—ready to run from day one.
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Provide technicians with instant access to up-to-date procedures, manuals, and diagrams right within SAP Plant Maintenance or GIS. Ensure safe, efficient execution and audit-ready documentation while reducing downtime and improving first-time fix rates.
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Fuel your digital twin strategy with accurate, real-time engineering data. Connect designs, specs, and change history to digital models to improve decisions and efficiency across the asset and product lifecycle.
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Manage product updates and revisions with full version control and audit trails. Ensure stakeholders across design, quality, and production work from the latest specs, minimizing rework, improving compliance, and speeding up change implementation.
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Accelerate engineering document reviews with built-in tools for redlining, commenting, and digital signatures. Improve collaboration, reduce approval cycles, and maintain a complete, auditable history of changes—all within a controlled environment.
Key features
Engineering document management software accelerates engineering workflows and ensures seamless operational continuity across the asset and product lifecycle.
Engineering revision control
Maintains full control over document versions with automated tracking, audit trails, and access to historical data—ensuring accuracy, compliance, and confidence in every change.
Persona-driven dashboards
Delivers role-based data tailored to each user’s tasks—boosting productivity, reducing risk, and ensuring fast, focused access to the right engineering information.
Automated workflows
Streamlines task routing and status updates based on events and actions to reduce delays, enforce consistency, and keep engineering projects and processes on track—without manual effort.
Deep SAP integration
Connects engineering content directly to SAP processes and objects to boost productivity, ensure compliance, enhance reliability, and support safety—while accelerating innovation.
Concurrent engineering
Enables concurrent engineering by managing, sharing, and controlling engineering content across teams, accelerating innovation, reducing rework, and improving project outcomes.
Transmittal and submittal management
Streamlines the exchange of critical documents with full traceability, version control, and audit trails, ensuring timely reviews, approvals, and compliance across projects and partners.
Tag management
Manages and links engineering tags to documents, assets, and systems centrally, ensuring data consistency, traceability, and faster access across the asset and product lifecycle.
Engineering workspaces
Creates secure, role-based workspaces for teams to collaborate on engineering content, streamlining reviews, managing tasks, and maintaining control across the engineering lifecycle.
Integrations
Seamlessly integrate engineering content with ERP, CAD, EAM, GIS, PLM, MES, and other specialized engineering applications—ensuring data consistency, process efficiency, and real-time collaboration across the enterprise.
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Add-ons
Extend OpenText Content Management for Engineering with purpose-built add-ons that enhance supplier collaboration and asset information management—accelerating engineering efficiency across both asset and product lifecycles.
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Asset Navigation
Gain integrated access to engineering content with a unified view of asset information—automatically capturing, relating, and navigating from equipment tags to relevant documents, drawings, and data
Deployment
OpenText offers flexible deployment options for OpenText Content Management for Engineering.
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Your cloud, your control
OpenText Private Cloud
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Free up resources, optimize performance, and rapidly address issues
OpenText Off Cloud Managed Services
Professional Services
OpenText Professional Services combines end-to-end solution implementation with comprehensive technology services to help improve systems.
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Get a trusted partner to guide your information management path
Your journey to success
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Accelerate your information management journey
Consulting Services
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Speed implementation with engineering document management experience and as-built documentation
OpenText™ Content Management for Engineering FasTrak
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Propel your business into the future with modern solutions
NextGen Services
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Unlock the full potential of your information management solution
Customer Success Services
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Facilitate richer and more accurate migration processes while minimizing the risks of delay and error
Smart Migration: Discover, enrich, map, and migrate
Partners
OpenText helps customers find the right solution, the right support, and the right outcome.
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Application Marketplace
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Industry-leading organizations that enhance OpenText products and solutions
Strategic Partners
Training
OpenText Learning Services offers comprehensive enablement and learning programs to accelerate knowledge and skills.
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Meet the demands of all types of users for effective adoption
Learning Services
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Unlimited access to training with personalized tiers to fit your needs
Learning Subscriptions
Communities
Explore our OpenText communities. Connect with individuals and companies to get insight and support. Get involved in the discussion.
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Explore ideas, join discussions, and network
OpenText’s forums
Premium Support
Optimize the value of your OpenText solution with dedicated experts who provide mission-critical support for your complex IT environment.
OpenText Content Management for Engineering resources
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Engineering document management systems manage engineering documents and related business processes across the asset lifecycle, improving collaboration, compliance, and operational efficiency.
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Enterprise content management systems break down information silos, streamline business processes, and ensure a single source of truth for all enterprise documents—boosting accuracy, compliance, and collaboration.
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Engineering documents such as drawings, P&IDs, SOPs, and manuals are an important type of information that is key in creating digital twins. With GenAI-powered assistance, users can quickly find answers within documentation, enhancing engineering efficiency across asset and product lifecycles.
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It automates engineering change management and document workflows to track, review, approve, and control design modifications throughout the project lifecycle. Combined with OpenText Core Collaboration for Engineering, it also streamlines contractual deliverables and transmittals management.
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It integrates with SAP, IBM Maximo, CAD, and GIS—streamlining workflows and enhancing productivity. By delivering content in context, it ensures users access the right information at the right time, directly within familiar applications.
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Combined with OpenText™ Asset Navigation for Energy, it automates tag extraction, validation, and indexing from engineering drawings. HotSpots enable intuitive, asset-centric navigation across systems, while metadata indexing improves searchability and access to content directly from drawings.
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The OpenText Content Management for Engineering FasTrak accelerates deployment with a preconfigured prototype system, allowing early hands-on experience and faster go-live with reduced risk.
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