The MSDS Digital Filing Cabinet Pro (DFC PRO) is a document imaging application designed specifically for storage and retrieval of MSDS documents. Document Imaging programs store pages as images, providing a fast and error-free method of getting the MSDS document into the computer for display and printing. This method of storing and retrieving MSDS's means that you have one source copy that needs to be maintained, but that copy is instantly accessible via the network to anyone, at any time. It also means that instead of wading through stacks of binders to find the right document, you can find it in seconds by searching. Replacing outdated pages becomes as easy as finding the document and selecting Replace Page. Or, how about automatically generating vendor request letters for outdated MSDS's? Now there is a time saver! The DFC PRO will even make automatic backups of the previous version of the MSDS for you when you replace it with a newer version.



Traditionally, document imaging programs have been expensive, inflexible, and very difficult to use. The DFC PRO addresses all of these problems with ease.

The DFC PRO is very easy to use. The Product List provides instant access to all products in the database, or the user can filter the data down to a specific type of product: by name, department, physical or health properties, and many other characteristics. The DFC PRO stores a wide range of information about each product, in addition to the document images.

The index tab cards provide an intuitive interface for the novice or power user. Simply double-click a Product and up comes all the detail information, easily accessed from the same place. The DFC PRO provides specific tabs for information on Product Identity, Physical Properties, Health Properties, Departments (locations), Components (ingredients), and Documents (MSDS/other docs). There is even a user-defined classification scheme for grouping products.

Unlike most document imaging products, the DFC PRO is flexible. It allows you to "acquire" your MSDS's from a variety of places: any TWAIN scanner, a fax modem, disk image files, disk text files, direct keyboard entry, or launching other applications. And, you can store an unlimited number of additional documents with each product. In this way, the DFC PRO flexes to meet your needs, not the other way around...

The DFC PRO provides the easiest method for getting documents into your computer ever. The Document Acquisition Wizard leads you through the entire acquire process, start to finish, with context-sensitive help only a click away. The DFC PRO even connects automatically to your default web browser, for simple point and click import of Internet MSDS’s.

MSDS DFC PRO comes with a fully integrated ad-hoc report designer so that users can customize built-in reports and create new reports on the fly!

The heart of the DFC PRO is the document viewer. For images, the document viewer allows you to scroll, flip pages, scale, rotate, enhance, print and export any document image.

MSDS DFC PRO will also connect automatically to the Chemical Inventory System (two versions available, see (Inventory, Maintenance and MSDS Management), so that you can acquire, view and print MSDS's directly from CIS. You can also use the CIS inventory list to populate the Components tab for any product.

DFC PRO provides multi-level password support for controlling access to the database.

MSDS DFC PRO also provides high-speed import capabilities for upgrading from your present electronic MSDS database: The import engine can even attach text and image files of previously acquired MSDS’s during the import: you just specify the filename in one of your import columns.

The MSDS DFC PRO also has a companion product, called the SimpleView Step-By-Step (SBS) Viewer, which provides simple, distributed, read-only access across a network (See Below)

SimpleView SBS Viewer for MSDS DFC PRO (Optional)

Now any employee, regardless of their knowledge of computers, can easily access digital MSDS files with a simple "click and view" interface. The SimpleView Step-By-Step Viewer is a stand-alone utility designed for easy, low-cost distribution of digital MSDS in read-only form across a network.

Combine the extensive capabilities, with tremendous flexibility and low cost, and you have the most cost-effective MSDS management program available today: The MSDS Digital Filing Cabinet Pro.

Support Contracts for MSDS DFC PRO
Beyond the 30-day free support that is included with our software, the ChemSW Support Contracts have been developed to provide our customers with top-quality service.    For more information see Support Contracts.

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