Saving Human Resource administration time with Pinnacle Series

Pinnacle Series has long been associated as an e-learning tool within the Engineering, Architectural and CAD environments. The platform is already pre-loaded with content for a variety of industry software, with the ability to store your own learning resources, helping with organisational knowledge retention.However, there is so much more to the platform.

In addition to a learning tool, PinnacleSeries is also the ideal tool for assisting with organisational processes. In this blog, I am going to focus on how the platform can support administration within the HR department.

Pinnacle Series for HR

Whennew starters join a company, the admin required during their first days can include:

- Telephone extension directory

- Management Hierarchy

- Time sheet instructions

- Health and Safety Documents

- Car Parking information

Providing this information and discussing each element to each new starters requires time and effort within HR.However, this can be easily streamlined by loading these documents into PinnacleSeries and adding new starters into an Induction workgroup. This willallow themto be given all the necessary documentsin just a few easy steps.When documents and processes are updated, employees will always have access to the latest version.

A workgroup is created within the Work Centre by clicking the Toolbox Icon.

Click ‘Create Workgroup’ and name it‘Induction’.

Once your Pinnacle Series administrator has loaded your company documents, share these to your Induction Workgroup. These can remain for future New Starters.

Go to the members tab and Add Members. Click on the Groups and select Induction.

All that remains is to go to the Pinnacle Series Management Utility and add new starters into the Induction Group. This is easily done by selecting the user, clicking modify then adding them to the Induction Group.

This last step is all that is needed for future new starters.

Another benefit of using Pinnacle Series for HR is that all document usage is recorded. 

This will assist HR during company Audits to provide proof that documents have been read.

I hope you have found this blog useful.

Please contact us for further information regarding Pinnacle Series.

https://www.symetri.co.uk/products/pinnacle-series

Are CAD training courses still relevant today?

CAD software was first developed in the early 1960’s, with Autodesk releasing AutoCAD in 1982. After all this time, the software is still popular today, with the demand for training still strong, with CAD training courses among the most popular courses that Excitech provides. 

Focusing on AutoCAD, one could wonder why it continues to be so widely used and has not been replaced by other more recent technologies. There are a number of factors that play a role in its success and that maintainthe knowledge of CAD and AutoCAD are essential skills in numerous sectors.

In this blog, I will focus on 5 key areas which I think makes AutoCAD so popular:

Customisation

The user interface can be greatly customised. You can display the ribbon, menus, or toolbars, create your own buttons and tool palettes, or add existing buttons to the quick access bar for ease of access. You can also save the interface in a workspace, facilitating the process of storing and loading different setups.

An AutoCAD profile can be set up to store all the settings that control the appearance of the different elements of the software and the behaviour of the commands.

Those profiles and workspaces can be loaded when you switch to a different machine or when you upgrade to a newer version to keep a consistent look and feel.