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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.

OpenText™ Content Management for Engineering is a cloud-ready solution built to manage complex engineering drawings, documents, and data across asset and product lifecycles. Integrated with SAP®, it ensures teams, contractors, and operations work with accurate, governed information. Enable your digital twin strategy while driving innovation, compliance, and performance.

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.

  • 360°
    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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  • Integrated
    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.

Use cases

Streamline engineering document management processes, foster innovation, and build digital twin readiness with structured, accessible content.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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    Accelerate the value of OpenText Content Management for Engineering

    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.

    • 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.

      Professional Services

      OpenText Professional Services combines end-to-end solution implementation with comprehensive technology services to help improve systems.

      Partners

      OpenText helps customers find the right solution, the right support, and the right outcome.

      Training

      OpenText Learning Services offers comprehensive enablement and learning programs to accelerate knowledge and skills.

      Communities

      Explore our OpenText communities. Connect with individuals and companies to get insight and support. Get involved in the discussion.

      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.

      • 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.

      • 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.

      • 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.

      • 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.

      • 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.

      • 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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