The implementation of Web-based technologies in engineering data management

There are various data archive related problems occurring in medium-size companies. Larger companies have been preventing such situations by implementing different EDP/PDM systems. Smaller companies find such commercial EDP/PDM systems too expensive when compared to the number of employed users, that enable them to handle the archive manually. Due to its rather general setting, various EDP/PDM systems often cannot meet all the specific requirements of the small user. SME archives relies on a larger number of users who commonly encounter operational problems. Such is the case with companies that have no strictly defined archive principles or browsing systems. On the sample of a medium size company of power transformers, we have studied the parameters necessary for the design of a software that would implement web based technologies in order to enable simpler and more precise the bill of material be created. The advantage of applying web technologies in data management is that the user needs no other software application besides the web browser as already installed in his computer. In addition to that, the user is not limited by his choice of operating system (Windows, Unix).