ASPEC Engineering, EDMS, and Altimate Systems Inc.

ASPEC Engineering of Australia is multi-disciplinary engineering company specializing in design engineering for plant upgrades and retrofit works for the mining and resources industries has chosen Altimate Systems' OpenEDMS as its electronic data managment and workflow solution.

Toronto, On (PRWEB) January 28, 2006 -- ASPEC Engineering of Australia is multi-disciplinary engineering company specializing in design engineering for plant upgrades and retrofit works for the mining and resources industries. ASPEC’s expertise lies in their focus on bulk materials handling machines, life extension and brownfield upgrades to existing facilities, condition assessment, structural analysis, finite element modeling, fatigue, vibration analysis, and risk assessment. ASPEC provides engineering design services for facilities such as materials handling systems, cranes, shiploaders and stacker reclaimers, bins, material receival stations, processing plants, and marine facilities.

In order to optimize the strategic coordination of their projects and to minimize the expense and time previously needed to distribute reports, engineering drawings, and domain expertise along the traditional avenues of communication ASPEC decided to implement OpenEDMS as a central repository for all of the documents necessary to their business environment, thereby enabling personnel to share documents and communicate more readily at all levels of each project.
Canadian-based Altimate Systems has developed its Enterprise Document Management and Workflow System, OpenEDMS, to enable businesses and organizations to structure their content assets and to regulate and refine even the most labyrinthine document-driven processes for enhanced efficiency, accountability, and momentum.

Benefits of OpenEDMS:
· OpenEDMS integrated structure and controlled workflow would speed the process from document creation and validation to delivery, storage and subsequent retrieval.
· OpenEDMS provides ASPEC with a structured repository of data allowing for centralized control and easier access. QA and auditing are also more effective.
· OpenEDMS facilitates the retrieval of the required information at a moments notice.
· Due the level of integration between the OpenEDMS management systems and the workflow elements there exists a greater opportunity for value added quality assurance. The ability to continuously improve processes rather than just finding and reporting faults was seen as a priority. A document being validated for use by a client could be interactively updated if any modifications are needed while still retaining accurate version control.
· By providing effective means by which new or less experienced engineers could access the corporate knowledge bank contained in the document repository, the organization can reduce its dependency on specific domain experts. This will allow the expert to focus more time n core tasks.
· The average project report was duplicated several times for various people. By providing a digital document management solution the number of paper copies was dramatically reduced.
· The flexible metadata management feature enables ASPEC project management personnel and engineers to organize, clarify, and refine unstructured documents, while the full-text search feature makes it possible to swiftly locate pertinent documents by various user-defined criteria, including project title, number, and class.
· The bottom line reason for such an implementation is to reduce costs in meeting the customers’ needs and to increase profits

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