Product data management (PDM) for metal construction and facade technology

What is CRONOS?

CRONOS is a company-wide data management system that is used to manage company data. It is particularly simple to manage article-oriented project data and design drawings created with ATHENA, APOLLON, AutoCAD, or Inventor.

Layouts and individual part drawings from a design are displayed in a logical order, as well as all other project documents, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, as well as PDF files and many more. Even project-related e-mail traffic can be handled via CRONOS. This means that at all times, a project overview with drawings, product information, orders, invoices, and related communication is available.

CRONOS is an ideal solution for drawing management, archiving and document, product data and lifecycle management.

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CRONOS for the Project Start

CRONOS is project-oriented and automatically creates a folder structure from a template when a new project is created. The folder structure can be set up company-specific or according to the project type. Folders for quotations, orders, documentation, correspondence or for construction are directly available to the whole team, if necessary already with subfolders. A user-friendly dialog asks for the project-related data. In this way, a consistent project structure is achieved across the company.

Regardless of the type of document, CRONOS is a starting platform in which documents and drawings can be created for a specific project and already provided with additional information. This makes it simple to locate documents in the future, such as in the case of special drawings from which elements are reused in subsequent projects.

Cronos is available in a number of different modules, including:

  • Cronos Basis: Document management for general workstations without CAD: Management of company-related data, such as emails, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and PDF files, including Quickview.
  • Cronos CAD: Document management like Cronos Basis, as well as management of CAD data from ATHENA, APOLLON, AutoCAD and Inventor.
  • Cronos View: Data visualization, which is ideal in production.
  • Cronos BOM: BOM creation within the CAD systems.

System requirements

The recommended system requirements depend on the CAD system used or other applications that work with CRONOS data.
 To use CRONOS, your computer system should meet the following requirements:

Server

Client

Processor

from 2.0 GHz

from 2.0 GHz

Operating systems

– (Windows 2008 R2)*
– (Windows 2012)*
– Windows 2016
– Windows 2019
– Linux/Unix (as file server)
– NAS (e.g. Synology, QNAP, …)

– (Windows 7 – x64)*
– Windows 10 from version 1511 (x64)
– Windows 11 (x64)

Additional software

With Linux additionally Samba for file access

Main memory

> 4 GB

> 4 GB

Database system

– MariaDB (>=10.3)
– MySQL (>=8.0)

Hard disk storage

– Approx. 500 MB basic CRONOS installation
– Depending on the database, at least 1 GB basic installation
– Data volume of the managed documents

Network

>= 100 MBit (office workstations)
>= 1 GBit (CAD workstations)

Distributed locations

>= 16 MBit DSL/VDSL/cable
best synchronized

>= 16 MBit DSL/VDSL/cable
Observe latency

* Use at your own risk. Systems are no longer supported by Microsoft ®.