Manage Documents:

All Archetype documents are automatically assigned unique references and stored without need for filenames, directories, templates, etc. and can be found at the press of a button. Once a document has been produced, it is automatically registered in the system. It can be easily located by anyone without resort to finding directories and filenames. Documents are locked once they have been issued to prevent changes being made. Searches can easily be made to find any required information.

Archetype does not treat every document as just another file on your system. The processes involved with drawings, letters, minutes, instructions, emails, etc. are different. If you were writing a QA manual for how you managed drawings, letters and emails the procedures would be different. Archetype provides separate systems for documents of different types so that different procedures are applied.