On-Premise Engineering Document Management
Adept connects you to what matters most.
Adept brings it all together — your people, processes, and documents — so decisions come faster, workflows run smoother, and data integrity is protected.
Now it’s all within reach.
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Enterprise-grade. On your infrastructure.
Adept is a fully configurable on-premise engineering document management platform — deployed on your servers, in your data center, on your terms. Rated G2 Best Software 2026 in CAD & PLM, and recognized by Frost & Sullivan as the Customer Service Leader in the Global Engineering Information Management Market, Adept is the platform industrial organizations trust when control, security, and reliability are non-negotiable.
Deployed on your infrastructure.
Adept runs on your servers, in your data center, or in a private cloud environment of your choice. Your data stays where your policies require it — with full IT control over configuration, security, and administration.
Enterprise-grade security.
AES-256 encryption, Active Directory integration, SSO with enterprise identity providers, granular user access controls, penetration testing, and a complete audit trail. Your intellectual property stays protected.
Distributed vaults.
Deploy vaults in any geographic location while maintaining one database. Files stay local to each site for fast access — no matter where in the world your teams are working.
Vault replication.
Adept replicates vaults across locations so dispersed teams have local access to the same documents — even in low-bandwidth environments. Only file changes are replicated, not entire files. One source of truth, everywhere.
Smart document vaulting.
Adept secures your documents without scrambling your existing folder structure or filenames — unlike other systems that render your files useless outside their proprietary environment. Your intelligence stays intact.
The engineering system of record for industrial operations.
Asset-intensive organizations operate complex infrastructure over decades. Every plant modification, every capital project, every maintenance intervention depends on engineering information that’s accurate, current, and connected to the physical asset. When it isn’t — when documents drift out of sync with the plant — the consequences accumulate silently until they can’t be ignored.
Adept is the engineering system of record that prevents that drift. It governs engineering information continuously across the full asset lifecycle — from design and construction through commissioning, operations, maintenance, and plant modifications — so every phase builds on trusted information from the one before it.
Run on information you can trust.
Maintenance teams do their best work when they can trust what they’re working from. When engineering documentation is current and connected to the physical plant, safety improves, outages are avoided, and costly rework disappears.
Keep the engineering record intact.
Capital projects are where documentation drift most often begins. Adept Cloud keeps the engineering record intact regardless of how your organization collaborates with contractors — so the handover to operations is complete, accurate, and trusted.
Build on engineering data you can trust.
Digital twins, AI, and predictive maintenance require accurate, trusted engineering data to deliver their value. Adept Cloud provides the governed digital thread that connects engineering information across the asset lifecycle — the foundation that makes digital transformation actually work.
Find any document, from anywhere, in seconds.
TThe average engineering professional spends 30-40% of their time searching for information. Adept eliminates that waste. Every document your organization has ever created, approved, or received is findable in seconds — by anyone who needs it, from any browser or the Adept desktop client.
- Full-text search across all document content and metadata
- Metadata-based search with custom fields, data cards, and filters tailored to your organization
- FileGuide views for flexible, role-based document navigation — each team sees the structure that makes sense for them
- Saved searches and Favorites for one-click access to the documents you use most
- Share documents via secure Adept URLs or email attachments
- Access from any modern browser or the Adept desktop client
Confidence when the stakes are high.
Don’t leave it to chance when a field engineer needs the right schematic at 3am or a shop floor worker is manufacturing an expensive part. The costs of a version control issue may include worker safety, expensive scrap, reduced margins, and failures that impact the reliability of your assets. Adept eliminates duplicates and accidental overwrites — so every user always has the current, approved version.
- Check-in / check-out locks documents when in use — preventing simultaneous edits, duplicates, and accidental overwrites
- Major and minor version tracking — save work-in-progress versions during design and formal versions upon approval
- Revision control with auto-increment — revision field linked to drawing title blocks, auto-updated on check-in/out or final approval
- File relationship version management — control whether parent documents reference the latest version of a child or lock to a specific version
- Complete, searchable audit trail for every document action — who accessed it, who changed it, and when
- Watermarks and approval authentication for controlled documents
When your work flows, your business grows.
Manual document review and approval — emails, phone follow-ups, walking the facility with printed sign-off sheets — doesn’t scale, is error-prone, and leaves no audit trail. Adept puts your document routing and approval processes on rails. Every document follows the right path, every step is tracked, and every decision is permanently recorded.
- Automate simple or complex multi-step approval workflows — from single-reviewer sign-off to multi-stage engineering change processes
- Real-time status visibility — see where any document is in its approval process, who’s next, and what’s remaining
- Email notifications and time-based alerts — reviewers notified when action is needed; stakeholders alerted when a step is running behind
- Every approval captured in a permanent, tamper-proof audit trail — essential for regulatory compliance
- Password-authenticated approval validation for regulated environments
- Transmittal automation for controlled external document distribution to contractors, clients, and regulatory bodies
Document control that lives where your engineers work.
Adept integrates directly into the CAD applications your engineers use every day — so document management happens as part of the design process, not after it. Native integrations run inside AutoCAD and Inventor. For SOLIDWORKS and MicroStation, Adept manages files, relationships, and metadata alongside those applications with full version control. Any user can view 2D drawings and 3D models without a CAD license.
- AutoCAD native integration — check in/out, manage XREFs and file relationships, link drawing attributes to Adept metadata, inside AutoCAD
- AutoCAD Electrical integration — manage electrical design documents with the same control as mechanical drawings
- Autodesk Inventor integration — full PDM capabilities including assembly management and attribute extraction, inside Inventor
- SOLIDWORKS integration — full version control, file relationship management, and metadata alongside SOLIDWORKS
- MicroStation integration — manage DGN files and reference attachments alongside MicroStation
- Give non-CAD users visual access to 2D drawings and 3D models — zoom, pan, layer control, cut sections, explode, measure distances
Stunning visualization for everyone — without a CAD license.
No need for expensive CAD licenses, PDF conversion, or managing separate viewers for each file type. Adept’s integrated visualization platform makes it easy for anyone — from engineers to operations managers to field crews — to view, interact with, mark up, and collaborate on any document type.
- Native viewing of 2D CAD drawings and 3D models — no CAD license required; full interactive control including layers, cut sections, explode, and mass properties
- 2D Compare — compare two versions of a drawing side by side with differences highlighted automatically
- Multi-user markup on separate layers with different colors — markups saved independently, preserving original file integrity
- Rich markup tools — Cloud, Circle, Arc, Box, Freestyle, Highlight, Leader, Text, Sticky Note, Measurement, and more
- Print and convert to PDF — output to any printer or plotter, batch print, print with headers, footers, redlines, and watermarks
A secure environment for your most valuable information.
Engineering documents represent some of the most sensitive intellectual property your organization has. Adept protects them with enterprise-grade security controls — and gives you the audit trail, access governance, and traceability tools to meet regulatory and compliance requirements in even the most demanding industries.
- AES-256 encryption at rest via Windows BitLocker, TLS encryption of all data in transit
- Active Directory integration — simplifies user and group administration and automates platform on/offboarding
- Single Sign-On (SSO) with enterprise Identity Providers — reduces your attack surface and improves user experience
- Granular user and group access rights management — control who can view, print, markup, check in/out, edit metadata, or delete any document
- Complete, searchable audit trail for every document action throughout its entire lifecycle
- Emergency recovery — data can be mirrored and replicated for business continuity
Battle-tested in the most demanding engineering environments.
“Amidst the whole issue we had with the ransomware attack, if we didn’t have that big project in Chicago completely contained within Adept, it probably would have sunk the project for us completely, and could have ruined the company.”
Jason Ramsey · IT Manager, NAFCO
“We’ve got hundreds and hundreds of workflows that we’re managing with Adept, and one of the things we love is the email notifications and alerts. Someone may know they have work to do, but do they know if it’s late? We get those notifications, and it keeps projects moving.”
Chris Wood · Adept SME, Dow Chemical
“Adept is our central engineering drawing repository for equipment across all of our plants. The system allows the engineers to enter, revise, and store the most recent documentation, while also having the ability to view past revisions. At the same time, it provides view and print capabilities of the most up-to-date prints to personnel in maintenance, operations and purchasing.”
Emily McCarty · Project Engineering Specialist, TimkenSteel
ADD-ONS FOR ADEPT
Extend Adept with purpose-built capabilities
Adept is the foundation. These purpose-built add-ons extend its capabilities for external collaboration, automated publishing, and enterprise system integration.
Adept Catalyst (coming soon)
Governed engineering collaboration in SharePoint, powered by Adept
Catalyst lets you collaborate with contractors in SharePoint while keeping Adept as the engineering authority — controlling what goes out to projects and ensuring updates come back through review, approvals, and version control. Projects move faster and operations receives clean, reliable engineering documentation.
- Controlled document distribution to SharePoint
- Governed reintegration through Adept workflows
- Full version control and approval audit trail
- No VPN or Adept access required for contractors
Learn more about Catalyst
Adept PublishWave
Automated PDF Publishing of CAD and Office files
Automatically publish high-fidelity PDFs and TIFFs from CAD and Office files — triggered on check-in, final approval, or on demand. Runs on a separate server so it never ties up a user's workstation.
- Publish to PDF or TIFF — single, batch, or automated
- AutoCAD, MicroStation, SOLIDWORKS, Inventor, Word, Excel
- Publish to Adept, network folder, or FTP site
- Watermarks and PDF password protection
- Publish 2 Adept — automate file import from external systems
- Full audit trail of publishing activities
STARTING AT
$355 / month
Per site, billed annually
Includes all publishing capabilities. Requires Adept on-premise license.
Adept Integrator
Automate data flows and business processes across your IT stack
Connect Adept to SAP, Oracle, Maximo, Esri, Salesforce, and more. Code-free, drag-and-drop configuration with a visual data mapper, real-time dashboards, and enterprise-grade architecture.
- Standard connectors for SAP, Oracle, Maximo, Primavera, Esri, Office 365, and more
- Code-free, drag-and-drop graphical UI
- Visual data mapper for defining data flows
- Real-time data graphs, charts, and alerts
ENTERPRISE BUNDLE — STARTING AT
$1,500 / month
Billed annually
Includes Adept Connector and one other connector of your choice, plus setup in production & sandbox environments.
ADDITIONAL OPTIONS
Additional Connector
SAP, Oracle, Maximo, Esri, and more
$500 / mo
billed annually
Integrator Studio
Build and maintain your own integrations
$450 / mo
billed annually
