PrintableBechtel Corporation
Bechtel is one of the world's largest engineering, construction, and project management companies. They provide technical, management, and operation services for customers worldwide. As such, Bechtel is part of a management team that operates the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a government facility for national security and scientific research. The lab monitors the U.S. nuclear stockpile and conducts research into new defense programs.
Bechtel looked to DocuVantage™ when Los Alamos' Archive and Records Center (ARC) needed a solution
to provide online access to 50 years' worth
of engineering drawings and project files to the
community of users at the Laboratory's Nevada Test Site,
located sixty-five miles north of Las Vegas,
Nevada.
Problem
The ARC had amassed 50
years' worth of engineering drawings and project files in
30 databases. They needed to a way to make them easily accessible and
searchable.
Solution
DocuVantage™ implemented an Electronic Document Management solution to scan,
index and store the files. An easy-to-use web and text search tool allows users to
search and instantly retrieve files from the database.
Any drawing can be viewed anywhere on-site in
seconds.
Bechtel selected DocuVantage™ after a thorough business needs
analysis. The solution fit perfectly, and provided a
'no-programming' solution for scanning, storing and indexing. The ARC had been indexing and filming
documents for 30 years, this existing index data was imported into the new system, and drawings were
scanned and matched to their proper index record.
The new system "allows us to continue on with our normal
business process that we have developed over the
years, it was simple, elegant - just what we had
been looking for."
DocuVantage™ replaced, at a fraction of the cost, the custom-built system that ARC had been using for eight years. The old system was outdated, difficult to use and was not maintainable. In less than one month of service, DocuVantage™ replaced all of the functions of the prior system, which was scrapped later that same year. The new EDM system maintains about 30 databases of information for the NTS.
