Firma digital para la ingeniería

Now more than ever, AEC organizations are faced with fierce competition over fewer projects, and clients demanding better, faster, and cheaper results. With the vast majority of U.S. state Professional Engineering Boards now accepting digital signatures, AEC organizations can compliantly replace paper processes such as design reviews and submissions with fast, low-cost and fully digital ones and gain improvements in quality, speed and costs.

Digital signatures enable geographically-dispersed engineers and external partners to quickly, securely, and compliantly sign and seal any document type and deliver it in a matter of minutes. By allowing the engineer’s or partner’s contribution to be uniquely attributed and sealed from change, the liability is bound to its source. This means organizations can enhance collaboration by securely tapping into their best internal resources and/or those of their external partners, and deliver the highest quality results. Also, by eliminating the need to print documents for signing, digital signatures eliminate the costs and hassle of paper-related processes (i.e. printing, routing, manually signing, replacing lost documents, etc.), and enable organizations to reduce project delays, improve collaboration, and significantly increase client satisfaction.

Digital signatures enable you to meet the changing demands of the AEC industry with a technology that eliminates organizational costs, time-consuming and delay-inducing processes, and wasted staff time while enhancing internal and external collaboration, generating greater client satisfaction, and increasing sustainability.

A paper-based signature is estimated to cost an organization upwards of $5.40 each (including printing, scanning, archiving, routing and replacing lost documents). An average authorized signer signs two documents per workday. With 20 workdays a month, the monthly paper signing costs can surpass $100 per signer. CoSign eliminates these paper-based authorization costs and provides proof of signer identity and intent, and content integrity with each signed electronic document. This enables organizations to mitigate risk while reducing project cycle times, improving efficiency, and increasing competitiveness and service levels. Read more about the digital signature business case for the engineering industry.

Learn more about digital signatures for various engineering operations:

• EC/EPC firms
• Manufacturing companies
• Construction companies
• City and county engineering
• Departments of transportation
• Energy and utilities

CoSign works seamlessly with all common document formats such as Microsoft® Word, Excel®, Outlook®, InfoPath®, Adobe® PDF, AutoCAD®, Bentley® MicroStation, TIFF, and other document types. CoSign is standards-based (based on Public Key Infrastructure – PKI), avoiding vendor lock-in and allowing the document to be verified by anyone, anywhere, anytime without the need for proprietary verification software or third party support.

CoSign is offered in two versions – CoSign Desktop is meant for individual users, while CoSign Central is designed for a multiple-user organization. CoSign Central is based on easy-to-use software that communicates with a centralized and secure digital signature server. It is quick-to-deploy and ideal for mid to large sized organizations, offering seamless integration with content management and workflow systems. For smaller organizations (up to 10 signers), CoSign Desktop is offered as a standalone solution that does not require any hardware component. Learn more about the differences between CoSign Central and CoSign Desktop.

CoSign creates legally enforceable digital signatures in compliance with all federal, state, provincial, international, and institutional regulations pertaining to e-signatures and to the integrity and authenticity of electronic records (e.g., ESIGN, UETA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Prof. Eng/Arch/Surveyors Boards, ASCE, HIPAA, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, FAA, DHS, EU Directives, etc.).

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