Concurrent Engineering - Reducing Plant Downtime

Concurrent Engineering helps reduce lead times, decrease costs and improve project quality.

Enterprise Engineer for Assets supports the concurrent engineering methodology by allowing more than one project to work concurrently on the same drawing or document and ensuring visibility of process.

Business Challenges:

Gaining visibility of who has what drawing
Ensuring everyone is working with the most up-to-date version
Complexity of managing multiple projects working with the same information
Processes spanning internal and external participants
Reconciliation / Repatriation process

Enterprise Engineer for Assets - Concurrent Engineering Features:

Reports provide visibility of projects working concurrently
Notifications ensure projects are aware of a concurrent engineering situations
Transparency of process for Operations, Engineering Projects and Service Providers
Project security model allows multiple stakeholders to have visibility, while keeping information undergoing change secure
Secure access to libraries of as-built drawings and documents
Formal process to "retrieve" or "sign out" as-built drawings for revision or for information to multiple projects
Transmittal process to send as-built drawings and documents to external engineering projects (e.g. EPCs)
Management of incoming drawings and documents and updated revisions
Formal process to manage handover from both internal and external projects
Reconciliation/Repatriation process to manage concurrent project updates
Comparison tools to compare concurrent project revisions
Comparison tools to compare projects revisions to currently effective drawings (as-builts)