tsaADVET have taken on an apprentice, Callum Knight, for a year through ITEC NE. Callum will be working in our Document Indexing & Scanning section gaining
knowledge and exerience and working towards achieving his Diploma.
Tata Steel have signed a two year maintenance agreement covering the CAB-i-NET software suite of products. CAB-i-NET is extensively used for the management of the drawings and supporting documentation for the operation of the steel plants. The maintenance drawings are made available by the two-way links between CAB-i-NET and SAP PM (Plant Maintenance) software solutions.
tsaADVET are pleased to continue the service to Tata Steel having been a supplier for more than 20 years.
Anne Whatling retired at the end of August after 28 years service with tsaADVET. We wish her well in her retirement and hope she enjoys the free time to persue hobbies, travel and spend more time with her family.
Antony Leyland has been recruited into the role and will be getting to know all tsaADVET’s customers over the coming months as he deals with them. We have also recruited an additional software developer who joins the CAB-i-NET development team at the end of October.
tsaADVET have been providing Document Management services to NG LNG Storage for many years. This service has been extended for another two years with an option of a further two year extension to the end of 2015.
CAB-i-NET manages the drawings and associated supporting plant documentation.
tsaADVET’s customers have already deployed CAB-i-NET to their office locations outside the UK as they look to maximise their resources spread throughout the world. This enables a 24/7 design
process on projects and they are all on a common database of drawings and documents. To improve the performance further across the wide area network, CAB-i-NET has been enhanced to allow local replication of the CAB-i-NET database. This improves performance in obtaining information across the WAN. File replication and caching can be accomplished using any industry options the customers wish, due to the fact that CAB-i-NET does not store the file data in a vault environment. Working closely with our customers this development is currently in testing before being released later in the year.
tsaADVET is pleased to announce that Signalling Solutions have selected the CAB-i-NET Suite of software to manage the creation of not only their design data but also the documentation generated 
across the organisation.CAB-i-NET was selected after an extensive review of the existing solutions in use and the latest products available from their suppliers, including Bentley’s ProjectWise. Andrew Frank – Director, commented “We are delighted that Signalling Solutions have chosen CAB-i-NET and look forward to working with them on the rollout of the software throughout their organisation. This contract win reinforces our view that CAB-i-NET is a highly flexible software solution that only requires configuration, rather than customisation, to meet the needs of the customer”.
As part of the development of the recently released CAB-i-NET Autodesk Inventor Add-In, the functionality of the CAB-i-NET API has been expanded. The new functions now available include, the ability to query a document’s state, request the latest version of a superseded document and perform 2-way IDL! For a full descriptive list of the functions currently available in the CAB-i-NET API, please contact support@tsaadvet.co.uk
tsaADVET are pleased to announce that the CAB-i-NET Explorer Autodesk Inventor 2012 Add-In has been released for the latest version of CAB-i-NET. This allows an Autodesk Inventor user to access the auto naming of drawing sheets, 
creation and import including population and extraction of title block information from CAB-i-NET. Therefore allowing CAB-i-NET to manage the approval, issue, and revision of the drawings and images produced from Inventor.
Inventor is starting to be widely used for Mechanical design by many CAB-i-NET customers. This added functionality will be available within the core CAB-i-NET system for customers to use as and when required, at no additional cost.
Atkins Rail extends tsaADVET’s 1st line CAB-i-NET support role for another period. tsaADVET normally provide 2nd line support for their customers but for Atkins Rail, 1st Line support has been provided for the last year via a dedicated telephone support line and email account. This is in support of the roll out of CAB-i-NET through the Rail business.
tsaADVET held a data transfer workshop for its Rail customers in Birmingham on the 8th July. CAB-i-NET is widely used within the Rail industry for managing drawings and associated documentation. CAB-i-NET customers shared their 
experiences of transferring data with their suppliers and customers. The data held in CAB-i-NET can be easily exported as it is not held in a proprietary vault based system unlike most other EDMS systems. Currently there are no standards defined for data transfer and this is something the group is looking to establish to bring efficiencies to all parties.