Some typical applications are featured below. See also Case Study - DWGs for process plant design and and Case Study - PDFs for Structural Steel Fabrication examples.

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Engineering design, fabrication and manufacture

A fast growing, designer and supplier of automation systems, special purpose machines, conveyors and controls delivers projects encompassing several engineering disciplines for different customers and in many stages of development, design and manufacture.

Managing the vagaries of different disciplines on separate projects in various stages of development and manufacture for individual customers is a daunting task fraught with errors if not managed well. Any given project can be comprised of documents that include sketches, paper drawings, CAD files, Excel Spreadsheets, Word documents, schematics, wiring diagrams, test records and specification sheets for third party equipment.

Manufacturing is the final step in an intricate process of design, development, customer interaction and involvement. Documentation covering these and related steps must be precise to assure on time delivery and high quality.

Oil and Gas Pipelines and Terminals/Process Plants

The owners of a nationwide set of oil pipelines, refineries, terminals and petro-chemical plants are deploying Trix Organizer software to manage their engineering drawings and associated equipment records.

The system enables revisions to be controlled and, using the Component Management Module, managers can ask and immediately get answers to the questions "What equipment is affected by a change to this drawing?" and "What drawings and documents are called by this piece of equipment?"

All data is stored at a centralized data storage location and served out to individual users using either the Trix Organizer Web client or regular clients over Citrix.

Local document control protocols, procedures and nomenclature are supported while still providing a common core structure that will permit corporate to aggregate data and search for documents across all their sites.

Natural gas production requires that all of the gases be separated and water removed. Dehydration units, separation units, heaters, compressors and transfer pumps at the gas well heads service these needs.

Trix Organizer is installed to manage the documentation of this equipment for a large American gas field. The harsh environment takes its toll on equipment that must run 24/7. Organizer provides maintenance and repair crews with immediate access to up-to-date drawings and technical documentation.

Equipment must be relocated often. The documentation in Organizer tracks 'what is closest to where', enabling efficient and cost effective redeployment.

A world leader in the production of bearings and lubrication systems manages its continually changing plant and equipment drawings and documentation in Trix Organizer.

As an integral part of the document management system Trix ImageMaker software enables manufacturing facilities around the world to directly 'print' drawings and their associated metadata directly into the central Trix Organizer system.

This functionality means that the drawings produced by older, foreign language, versions of CAD software in the remote locations are entered into the system as easily as drawings produced at the head office location.

Trix Organizer is commonly used by cities, towns and regions to store their engineering documents. The documentation for facilities, housing, schools, roads, water, drainage and even transportation systems are logically and efficiently managed by Trix Organizer so that departments have access not only to their own documents but also to relevant documents originating in other departments.

Urban documents are typically long-lived with considerable intervals elapsing between changes. Trix Systems has evolved considerable experience importing and classifying documents of all ages so that they can be rapidly found and viewed.   

Construction of a 3 mile (5 km) road tunnel under the western suburbs of Stockholm took over five years to complete. Trix Organizer stored and managed all the mechanical documentation throughout the project, including check-in/check-out control of subcontractors.

Organizer stores prior versions of document files for review or reversion so most documents contain multiple files— hence the number of files stored in the database numbers in the several million.

On completion the Trix Organizer database was transferred to the tunnel operators. This provided them with a completely up-and-running tool which they continue to use for the efficient maintenance of the tunnel.

As the data was complete, entirely in digital format, and in one single database, the tunnel operators were spared the tedium and considerable expense too often associated with collecting as-built post-project documentation.

The Assembly Builder module is used to create and maintain PDF binders of the documentation needed for entire maintenance functions such as Ventilation and Lighting.

Rail Signaling Systems

A leading global technology company in the railway and mass transit systems business receives drawings and documents from its own design group, from railway track owners and from a multitude of subcontractors employed to install and maintain their equipment. Scheduling track signal maintenance and upgrades requires precise time-keeping predicated on precise record keeping. Track downtime is too costly to do otherwise.

Trix Organizer is used to control the inflow and outflow of drawings and specifications for individual projects. The system ensures that correct and complete documentation is issued. It also tracks documents checked out for approvals and flags tardy responses. In turn this helps the firm maintain its commitment to timely, high quality, communication with its customers and its contractors. The reporting system also provides ‘proof of delivery’ of distributed documents.

Some documentation is extremely sensitive. Access is strictly controlled by Trix Organizer’s log-in and permission rights.

Trix Organizer stores the building and equipment documentation for 3 hospitals and about 250 other buildings such as primary care practices.

The Facilities Module is used to overlay icons representing specific items of equipment on top of displayed plans and elevations. The system communicates directly with a third party FM system so it's easy to zoom in on an asset in Organizer and immediately open up the relevant asset record in the FM system's window. Conversely, locations can be instantly displayed on floor plans in Organizer from lists selected in the FM system.

Individual areas such as examination rooms and theaters are charged out to workgroups. These leases can be as short as one week at a time. Trix Organizer provides the leasing manager with real-time views depicting tenants and vacancies by color coding rooms. In a similar fashion cleaning contracts and specifiations are assigned.

Although the facilities were for the most part of relatively recent construction much of the original documentation was on paper. Provanum AB, Trix System's parent company, performed the scanning, indexing and loading of the data. A limited subset of the architectural drawings was converted to Autodesk Architecture DWG format. This enables Organizer to provide 3D depictions and access to asset data.

In a major project to refurbish and boost output of a large power plant the entire existing plant drawings and documents are being indexed, de-duplicated and loaded into Trix Organizer. The documents are served up over the Web directly from Organizer's Advanced Project Module to sub-contractors in multiple locations around the world. Modifications are checked back in and routed for approvals using the Workflow and Task Management Module.

Amongst the 'documents' being loaded into Trix Organizer are entire subsidiary databases such as those generated by MathCAD. This illustrates Organizer's versatility—virtually any file format can be stored and managed.

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