kBridge Automates Your Engineering
What it is
Knowledge Bridge (kBridge) is a Web-based engineer-to-order (ETO) environment that allows engineers to create applications that automate many engineering activities.
kBridge's roots are in knowledge-based engineering (KBE) software, which at one time was available only to the most sophisticated engineering departments at the largest corporations.
Business Advantages of kBridge
From the kBridge Web site:
Configuration and ETO tool
The greatest company-wide advantage to kBridge is its ability to configure complex, engineer-to-order (ETO) products. The right sort of application can reduce the time to produce a proposal or RFP. And it's a dramatic reduction in time from days and weeks to hours and minutes. In addition, the engineering work done by an automated kBridge application can be used downstream, after your company has won an order.
Engineering moves from roadblock to prime business development resource.
Personal productivity tool
At the same time, kBridge is designed to be an affordable, personal productivity tool for individual engineers—a far cry from its rarefied beginnings. Because it is Web based, is easily accessed—and doesn"t require a high-end computing platform. And its interface is easy to use.
More about kBridge, its history, and its basic concepts.
