Best Practice and Tips and Tricks from Mike Watkins

Established in London in 1969, DRS was originally setup as a data-capture bureau. Printing and scanning services were later expanded to include the design and manufacture of document readers and associated products. Since then, their reputation has grown and matured, and they have now become the name to trust for delivering time-critical and large-scale data capture contracts for the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Just to give you an idea of scale, their bureau facility handled over 90 million A4 pages in 2011, peaking at over 1.3 million per day, and their print division printed over 93 million forms during 2011. DRS PhotoScribe Series All products are designed, developed, and produced in house DRS floated as a fully listed company on the London Stock Exchange in 1994. Since then the company has grown in strength and currently employs over 250 people, delivering mission-critical projects all over the globe. They operate from several sites located within M...

Beaver Group is an agency specialising in digital media, design and creative solutions.  They are made up of two companies, Beaver Solutions and Beaver Design.  Beaver Solutions  provides digital media solutions (such as digital signage, way finding, interactive kiosks, AV, etc.)  and Beaver Design  provides design and print (such as websites, web tools, mobile apps, video production, etc.)   In addition, they also work with their specialist sister company, Signature Digital Menus.  Signature Digital Menus is a sister company of Beaver Solutions, it's a specialist company/brand that provides digital menu boards (it works alongside Beaver Solutions to do this). Beaver group manages the entire design, project management and Installation process of their d igital menus and signs.  They have been searching for a PLM solution for some time that brings together all aspects of the design process for internal staff, ext...