Optimizing the Information Management assembly line for manufacturers
Efficiency is everything for manufacturers who must hit delivery targets without sacrificing quality or exceeding budgeted costs. That operational efficiency all begins with everyone having access to accurate and current information. harmon.ie makes it easy to boost the adoption of SharePoint and Microsoft Teams for collaboration and document management, enabling manufacturing companies to maximize output, minimize waste, and handle change orders effectively while optimizing their workflows.
Compliance and Information Security
harmon.ie enhances compliance for manufacturing companies by making it easier to classify and manage documents and emails according to regulatory requirements. It provides tools that allow users to add necessary metadata and categorize information effectively, ensuring that documents are stored and retrieved in a manner that complies with industry regulations. This classification process helps maintain a high level of data integrity and auditability, crucial for passing regulatory inspections and audits. By facilitating organized and accessible document management, harmon.ie supports manufacturing companies in maintaining compliance with industry standards and legal obligations.
Babcock International Case Study
When Babcock International shifted its document management to SharePoint, it needed to get its 26,000 end users to consistently share files and emails to it while also classifying them at the same time to comply with government regulations. That need extended to the ability to add mandatory and optional metadata to shared content as part of that seamless workflow. Babcock also wanted to send links to files on SharePoint rather than attaching them to emails to avoid version control issues.
“It makes working with documents and SharePoint so much easier and we actually have statistical evidence that once people see harmon.ie, they want it. You can search for SharePoint content through the harmon.ie Outlook add-on and you can open and modify documents directly through Outlook. So basically, you can just avoid using SharePoint in its entirety which works really well for people who find it hard to work with SharePoint.”
Klotz Case Study
Klotz invested in SharePoint to create a common platform for document management and collaboration, including digitizing any paper documents as early in the process as possible. But they still needed an easy way for employees to access project-related emails and to use classifying data such as the email’s sender, recipient, and subject for discovery. The firm also wanted to empower workers to share emails to SharePoint as part of their regular workflows rather than as an intermittent, discrete activity to ensure consistent, comprehensive compliance and prevent any confusion when multiple users were working directly with SharePoint.
“Using harmon.ie, we were able to achieve our project objectives with respect to document management in SharePoint. Klotz employees have even commented on how remarkably well harmon.ie has been able to derive metadata classifications from long email threads.”
