Sund & Baelt

The Solution

Sund & Bælt selected Meridian to replace its old drawing management system that had only basic tools and was expensive to maintain. During the implementation, the company was also able to combine data from three databases into one place – Meridian.

• Up-to-date as-built environment for engineering information
• Configurable workflows for easy review and approval process
• Redline, markup and compare drawings to quickly view revisions
• Standard integration with IBM Maximo

“It sometimes took personnel four hours to locate a document. In many instances, the relevant document or drawing could not be retrieved and had to be reconstructed from scratch. Besides being frustrating, this also led to operational time being wasted and an increase in our mitigation costs.”

The Result

Using Meridian, Sund & Bælt manages one million pages of as-built documentation for highways, bridges and railways. This includes 60,000 CAD drawings as well as maintenance procedures, inspection drawings, photos, maintenance jobs, reporting of proposed changes, and a complete history of the infrastructures.

With the integration between Meridian and the company’s enterprise asset management software, IBM Maximo, drawings and technical documents stored in Meridian are available within IBM Maximo at the click of a button.

• Ensured quality of asset and engineering information
• Streamlined engineering change activities
• Consistent engineering and maintenance environments
• Improved collaboration and handover with maintenance contractors
• Reduced document retrieval times from four hours to just minutes

"We’re now able to retrieve a relevant drawing quickly and have confidence it’s the right version. It’s also easy to track and exchange documents for electronic approval and updates with external parties following a clear workflow process.”