Although it was forced through government mandates, most of my design engineering work for NASA was produced and signed for electronically into their database system (EDMS). The old system (VMDB) took a lot of printing, walking drawings around for signatures, sometimes traveling between contract locations and the space center to get it all sorted out. It really has reduced paper work and senseless travel around the satellite contractors in Houston/Webster.
Unfortunately, updates are pushed at night, so turning the computer off was never an option...
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