Detroit-based CAD/CAM Integration Inc has a manufacturing software application designed to create an electronic packet of graphics and text instructions: the ViewGraphics and Documentation System enables an engineer to create and distribute electronic documentation and is claimed to simplify documentation control on the shop floor; it runs under MS-DOS, Unix and NetWare, and is sold as two packages; the first is Document Creation which provides tools to assemble existing documents, and the second module is the Display Document Module which provides read-only access to packets of information on the shop floor; a minimum configuration requires personal computers with EGA or VGA graphics cards and monitors, an Ethernet local area network with interface boards and applications software, and graphics terminals; a Documentation Creation module site licence is $5,000, and $1,000 for each run-time Display Document.
