EDMS

[munruss]

I have a job interview on Wednesday morning and one of the things that they may ask me is if I have EDMS experience. Obviously i don't, but i would like to speak intelligently aboput it.

What is EDMS?

 

[theamdoverclocker]

what type of job interview is it? the first thing that comes to mind is "electronic discharge machining," although there are many other things EDMS could stand for.

 

[Peter]

Tried google?

 

[CallTheFBI]

LOL, all I have to say is good luck man. I feel sorry for you.

 

[dejitaru]

heh

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Electronic Document Management System
Electronic Document Marking System
Engineering Data Management Systems
Engineering Document Management System
Enlisted Distribution Management System
Executive Document Management System
External Data Management Services

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I have my own:
Eliminate damn Microsoft
Every Dead Man Smells
Electronic Datum Manipulation Software

 

[JonB]

Most likely usage (my opinion, ymmv)

Electronic Data Management System

We have such an animal at work and it involves storage of documents, mainly. It is our archival storage, using both hard drives and optical discs. Old documents were scanned from paper or micro-fiche, newer documents are stored in TIFF or PDF format. Backups of some Oracle Tables are also kept there.

All are indexed and viewable through a CIMAGE interface. There are many vendors.
I think our vendor was chosen primarily because of the long-term archival capabilites of the laser-disc storage.
This is for a nuclear power plant, and we are required to store an absolute butt-load of documents for the "life of the plant."

Some are already 30 years old and we may have another 40 years of operation, plus the time it takes to decommission.

 

[Wintermute76]

what type of job interview is it? the first thing that comes to mind is "electronic discharge machining," although there are many other things EDMS could stand for.

Probably not, Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) is usually abbreviated SEDM, for Sinker or Ram EDM and WEDM for wire EDM. I have seen EDMS for sinkers but not usually. I guess it depends what type of job it's for. If it's machining/toolmaking I could see it.