Digital Signatures Adopted by Top Engineering Design Firms
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ARX's CoSign® digital signature solution enables leading AEC firms to deliver better and faster designs at lower costs and meet intensifying client demands in a fierce competitive landscape.
San Francisco, California
In response to the economic downturn and the changing AEC landscape, many of the design firms on the ENR top 500 design firms list are adopting digital signatures as a means for gaining competitive advantage. Digital signatures enable AEC firms to automate approval processes, allowing engineers to easily and securely add their professional seals and graphical signatures to a variety of the most commonly used document types, and deliver signed and sealed electronic documents in a matter of minutes.
With digital signatures, top engineering design firms are succeeding in responding to ever-intensifying client demands for higher quality results at a faster pace and lower costs. Watch a 2-minute video outlining how digital signatures help engineering firms deliver better, faster and cheaper service to their clients.
At Terracon, a leading AEC firm, signers across 100 different offices digitally approved 150,000 reports within five months of implementing digital signatures, resulting in boosted productivity and substantial cost savings through the elimination of paper-based processes (printing, manual stamping and signing, scanning, priority mailing, archiving, etc.), in addition to improved collaboration and client satisfaction.
"Prior to using CoSign, we would need to print out reports, sign them by hand, and then rescan them before we could send them to a client," said Frank Milano, CIO, Terracon. "That in itself tells you the time that we save signing digitally."
At Black & Veatch, another leading AEC firm, electrical, civil and structural engineers in the Telecommunications Division have also adopted digital signatures. Digital signatures enable off-site engineers to keep workflows moving forward by allowing them to easily and securely approve documents from any location with an Internet connection.
"We're producing a lot of deliverables and there is a lot of paperwork moving around. Digital signatures enable our engineers to sign drawings and other documents while traveling or working remotely and keep the workflow going," said Chris Krafft, Chief Engineer, Telecommunications Division, Black & Veatch.
Digital signatures are now accepted by the Professional Engineering Boards in over 40 U.S. States, making it easier than ever for AEC firms to compliantly automate paper-based approval processes while optimizing collaboration, enhancing quality, and cutting operational costs. The recently updated CoSign digital signature solution offers enhancements specifically designed for engineering, including multiple-page signing with a simple click-through option, and support for multiple professional seals/stamps per signer. Read more about CoSign version 5.4, or try out the new features and experience the benefits of digital signatures with the free digital signature trial.
About CoSign Digital Signatures for AEC
ARX (Algorithmic Research) is a leading provider of secure, cost-efficient digital signature solutions for the AEC industry. With ARX's CoSign® digital signature solution, AEC firms can optimize their internal and external collaboration, enhance quality, cut project delivery times and operational costs, and increase client satisfaction. With CoSign, geographically-dispersed engineers can securely, compliantly, and affordably add their signatures and professional seals to drawings and other documents, and deliver them in a matter of minutes, rather than days. By eliminating the time-consuming and expensive need for printing and routing paper documents for approvals, and ensuring that each engineer's contribution is securely attributed and sealed from changes, CoSign enables AEC firms to tap into their best resources - regardless of location. A scalable solution, CoSign functions seamlessly with major document formats including Adobe® PDF, AutoCAD®, MicroStation®, and Microsoft® Office applications, and allows third-parties to validate engineering stamps, seals, and digital signatures without the need for additional verification software. Learn more about the CoSign digital signature solution.
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Ashley Miller
ARX
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