Streamline engineering document management, ensure safety and compliance, maximize company-wide collaboration and achieve a true single source of truth with Meridian’s purpose-built, enterprise-grade engineering document management system (EDMS).
Backed by over 20 years of unmatched industry expertise, Meridian EDMS can help you consolidate tools and overcome recurring pain points that come with using legacy solutions or generic document management systems.
Meridian EDMS provides a single source of engineering truth for all documents related to a work order, along with multiple ways to search for all types of critical documents, drawings, and associated assets. A user can find docs needed via a tag scan, location, asset name, and many other logical identifiers. With a few clicks, maintenance teams will have all the information necessary to complete the job efficiently in less time. Maintenance teams can also communicate important feedback to engineering by adding comments or redlining a PDF rendition.
Control document change with robust workflow capabilities that allow users to pass through pre-defined review and approval steps to make any change. It can even handle many workflows happening concurrently by establishing connections between various projects. This helps ensure all the boxes are checked by maintaining compliance, eliminating confusion and human error, and increasing productivity.
Extend engineering change management to your external workforce and include contractors in the creation, update, review, and approval process. Provide insightful project dashboards, secure transmittal packages, and online review and approval workflows.
Allow employees to quickly access mission-critical information on the go, remotely, or in multiple places at once from any device. Meridian’s online access can expedite project and maintenance delivery and increase overall operational efficiency while preventing costly errors and accidents.
Accruent engineering document management software provides a clear and accurate audit trail by centralizing documentation and ensuring compliance to change management standards. This includes asset life information, electronic print stamps, watermarks, signatures, and a detailed document history that can reduce risk, help maintain document security, and simplify compliance processes.
The ability to digitally retrieve the latest engineering documents and be automatically notified when new and updated documents become available is another powerful function of Meridian. It maximizes wrench time by avoiding having to physically hunt down files in various locations.
Meridian EDMS is purpose-built to allow users to store, maintain, and update interrelated or interdependent CAD files, BIM models, drawings, schematics, and other documentation. This — along with features like digital workflows, audit trails, and a defined feedback process — can help all users simplify compliance and understand who made decisions and when.
Even with a robust CMMS platform, critical documentation — such as complex engineering documents, facility documentation, CAD drawings, and technical documents — often can’t be readily accessed or updated due to unavailability or constant change. Connecting Meridian to your computer maintenance management system can help you access all your crucial information and share field-related changes with document owners.
Your teams often have challenges with medium-to-large internal projects and with shared inter-company resources on projects. Documents are often lost during the back-and-forth internal review cycle, and it can be difficult to collaborate effectively with external vendors and maintain the engineering project scope. Accruent Meridian simplifies project document change and external sharing using a controlled digital process — both to and from contractors and Company shared services. It also eliminates the need to use uncontrolled or unsanctioned tools such as Dropbox, network drives, email, or FTP sites.
Meridian’s SaaS offering lets you take advantage of all the benefits of the Cloud. It removes on-premises hardware, software, and infrastructure costs. In addition, it provides all the maintenance, support, upgrades, and patches you’ll need. Upgrades are provided quarterly, and all users are actively invited to suggest improvements in the application. Offloading system operations and maintenance reduce IT maintenance and labor costs by more than 50% compared to on-premises systems.
And if you’re in the life sciences industry, explore how Meridian Cloud for Life Sciences — an expertly validated, cloud-based EDMS, can help you transition to the Cloud while ensuring compliance, quality, and safety.
