About Formtek

Engineering Information. Managed for the Long Term.

For more than four decades, Formtek has helped engineering-intensive organizations manage the information behind their most important work.

From engineering drawings and CAD files to BIM models, technical documents, specifications, and other project records, Formtek specializes in the information that conventional content-management systems often struggle to understand.

We provide the technology that connects engineering data with enterprise information management, enabling organizations to securely manage, access, share, search, audit, and preserve critical technical information throughout its lifecycle.

Our Focus

Engineering information is different from ordinary business content.

A drawing may contain attributes that are essential to a project. A CAD file may reference dozens of other files. A BIM model can contain thousands of interconnected elements. A technical document may need to remain accessible and auditable for decades.

Simply storing these files is not enough.

Formtek provides the engineering information management capabilities that make this data usable within the enterprise.

Our solutions integrate engineering applications and formats—including CAD and BIM—with enterprise content management platforms, helping organizations bring technical information into a controlled, governed environment without losing the relationships and information that give those files their value.

What We Do

Formtek’s technology helps organizations:

• Manage engineering information — Securely manage drawings, CAD files, BIM models, specifications, documents, and related technical records.
• Connect engineering systems with enterprise content management — Integrate engineering data with platforms such as Hyland Alfresco.
• Understand engineering files — Extract properties, attributes, text, references, and other information from native engineering formats.
• Make technical information accessible — Transform complex engineering files into viewable, searchable formats without requiring the original authoring application.
• Maintain information relationships — Preserve connections between drawings, references, documents, and related engineering content.
• Govern information throughout its lifecycle — Support version control, auditing, security, compliance, and long-term information preservation.
• Migrate and modernize engineering information — Help organizations move large and complex technical information environments to modern platforms.

Built Around Engineering Data

Our expertise lies at the intersection of engineering applications, technical data, and enterprise information management.

This is where Formtek has differentiated itself for more than 40 years.

We understand that engineering information is not simply a collection of files. It is a network of relationships, properties, references, revisions, and business context.

That understanding is built into our software.

Whether the information originates in AutoCAD, MicroStation, Revit, IFC, or other engineering environments, Formtek helps organizations bring that information into an enterprise system where it can be managed alongside the rest of the organization’s critical content.

Trusted for Critical Information

Formtek solutions are used by organizations where engineering information is too important to lose, too complex to manage casually, and too valuable to leave disconnected from the enterprise.

Our customers include organizations in infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, industrial engineering, and government.

These environments share a common requirement:

critical technical information must remain accessible, understandable, secure, and trustworthy over time.

Formtek helps make that possible.

More Than Software

Formtek combines software technology with decades of experience working with complex engineering information environments.

Our work can range from implementing engineering data management capabilities to integrating CAD and BIM information, developing specialized information-management solutions, and migrating large repositories of legacy engineering data into modern enterprise platforms.

We understand both sides of the problem:

the engineering information itself and the enterprise systems responsible for managing it.

That perspective allows us to solve problems that often fall between traditional engineering software and traditional content management.

A Long-Term Perspective

Formtek was founded in 1982, and our history has always been connected to the management of technical information.

Technology changes. Engineering applications change. Enterprise platforms change.

The need to preserve and manage the information created by those systems does not.

Our mission is therefore straightforward:

To help organizations preserve the value of their engineering information by making it manageable, accessible, governed, and useful throughout its lifecycle.

For more than four decades, that has been the work of Formtek.

Engineering information. Managed for the long term.