Substantial time savings with electronic archival
The company ELTRA scans drawings in seconds with Contex SD4410 for the huge Russian automotive industry
Part of the PRAMO group, the Joint-Stock Company ELTRA is one of the largest manufacturers of electrical components for automobiles and tractors in Russia and the CIS countries. ELTRA needed to transfer an enourmous pile of drawings to electronic documents. And after consulting CSoft in Moscow,they purchased a Contex wide format scanner and a software package for scanning and processing images. This choice proved to be the right one.
The challenge: More difficult to search and find drawings in the heavily growing pile of papers
For over 30 years ELTRA has been manufacturing automotive parts – starters, generators, spark plugs, etc. – for some of the largest companies in the Russian Federation (VAZ, GAZ, UAZ, Zavolzhskij Motor Plant, YAMZ, KAMAZ and others. Over the years the plant has accumulated an enormous paper archive of drawings for technological equipment and instruments. It has become increasingly diffi cult to find the necessary documents and work with them. For this reason there was an urgent need to convert the existing drawings into electronic format to enable all designers and engineers at the plant to have remote access to them and significantly reduce their time spent searching for them.
ELTRA, Russia Automotive
The solution with a Contex SD4410
The choice of a Contex solution for scanning the considerable amount of drawings in A0 size and larger, and the software package for scanning and processing images was taken after qualified consultations with CSoft in Moscow and a comparative analysis of the market.
The SD scanner offers the following features:
• 1200dpi optical resolution
• Save fi les of different widths
• Exceptional productivity:
High-speed scanning of even poor-quality drawings
• Relatively low cost
• Easy to use software Nextimage
• User-friendly scanner control panel, simple to operate
• See what you scan with face-up scanning
• Compact model, designed for scanning large-format drawings
• All-Wheel-Drive (AWD) for a perfect grip on documents
• Scan-to-Net function for scanner sharing across a network, and sending files to remote PCs
• ENERGY STAR compliant
The benefits: Right scanner for the job
“The monochrome scanner Contex SD4410 is ideally suited to tasks within our organization and allows us to reduce the cost of scanning by twice as much compared with similar colour
models,” says Mr. Vinogradov. “If we need to further speed up the process, we scan to tiff, jpeg and bmp formats and take formats needed for vector conversion from case to case.”
The result: Scanning in seconds to improve business workflows
Marina Vladimirovna Kozlova, head of archives for the Chief Engineer’s Office, responsible for the scanning of the drawings and work with the Nextimage software, shares her impressions:
“After some brief training I began building up my skills almost immediately and now the scanning is easy for me. Preparing images of the necessary quality and format literally takes
a few seconds and the actual process is started by simply pressing one button: it is as easy as using a microwave! It is also convenient that, in addition to the scanner, it is possible
to purchase special protective covers for the safe handling of sensitive originals and the copy from which the scanning is done remains intact and undamaged. Moreover, the quality of
the electronic image does not suffer. And it only takes seconds to scan the drawings.”
When ELTRA had the scanner implemented, the award winning Contex software of Nextimage was not yet released in Russian. But shortly after, the company had the software in its own
language. Marina Vladimirovna really appreciated what was for her a new working method and feels entirely comfortable with the image processing. Now that she has got into the swing of things she has even given her Contex SD4410 scanner a pet name in Russian – “Kolenka”.
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