Case Study : The ABB pRIME Toolkit : Industrial Collaboration through Lotus Notes
FoCul worked with ABB to develop a suite of Notes and Domino applications which made it possible for the ABB to carry out these structured asset reviews within a secure IT system known as the pRIME© Toolkit.
The system allows ABB and their clients to work together capturing the asset information electronically so that it can be reviewed during multi disciplinary reviews. The system synchronises data from the different team members through Client-Server or Peer to Peer connections allowing individuals to work in a disconnected fashion on site but to then share their data across the whole team. This functionality also allows the information to be reviewed by specialist Engineers outside of the immediate project team.
As each item is reviewed different stage gates are passed in the workflow process. This locks the documents and allows the overall progress of the project to be tracked by a traffic light system.
Recommendations created during the review are each individually costed and given target dates to produce an investment profile for the assets.
All of the information generated during the study can be automatically transferred to structured reports in MS Word and Excel at any time. The format of these reports are configurable in the field on a project by project basis.
It is also possible for ABB’s clients to view the detail in Lotus Notes, via the web or as static data on a CD or USB pen based html web site.
Clients without a Lotus Notes infrastructure can use the system in full fidelity by using the Lotus Notes Nomad USB pen based client.
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