1. Implementing Revu for Redlining
Product/Part Drawings
Randy Schoenhals – Herman Miller Options Engineering
Presenter:

2. About Me…
Herman Miller Options Engineering Team Since 2008
OFFICIAL JOB ROLE
• CUSTOM PRODUCT ENGINEER
UN-OFFICIAL JOB ROLES
• FEASABILITY ENGINEER
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT FACILITATOR
• LEAN PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
• CAD RESOURCE MANAGER
• MAINTENANCE ENGINEER
• SOFTWARE ENHANCEMENT PROJECT MANGER
• PRODUCT CONFIGURATION LAUNCH MANAGER
• CAD DESIGNER
• CAD AUTOMATION SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

3. About Herman Miller Options…

4. Typical Moderate Request

5. Fluctuation In Demand and Offshore
Resource Balance

6. Real Time Work Priorities and Status

7. New Problems Created

8. Before Revu

9. Performance Issues with Snag-IT

10. Business Conditions

11. Proposed Solution

12. Test Method

13. Average Time per Task

14. Work Balance Results

15. Using Revu when Snag-IT was typically used
Worst Case Scenario

16. Using Revu for ALL simple and moderate requests
Best Case Scenario

17. From This…

18. To This

19. A New Way of Working

20. Current Uses Within Options Engineering
• Major Uses
– 2D annotation of part and assembly drawings
– “Informal” product assembly and installation instructions
– Paperless documentation
– Archiving documents for record keeping
• Other Uses
– Inner office communication
– Supplier/Field communication
– Layout verification/documentation
– Conceptualization
– Offshore engineering communication

21. Herman Miller Corporate Use of Revu
• Currently used
– Options Engineering and CAD (customized product engineering)
– Dealers*
• Potential to be used
– Product Maintenance Engineering
– New Product Development
– Performance Engineering
– Applications (Sales team)
– Manufacturing
– CNC and Manufacturing Engineering
– Offshore Engineering

30. Future Opportunities for HMI Options
• 3D PDF annotation
• Dynamic hyperlinking
• SharePoint integration
• Extend use of “compare” and “overlay” features
• Template and label implementation

31. Thank You