Summary - What works for who

Team Position

Specific Needs

Best Solution

Principal Actions

Owners

CEMDC

Finance & Operation

Facility Managers

CEMDC

Maintain & Operate

Designers

EDM(CAD)
CEMDC

Generate Design
Issue Approval of Designs to others
Answer Queries

Project Managers
Design & Builders

CEMDC

Coordinate Design
Issue Information
Coordinate responses to Queries

Contractors

CEMDC

Construct
Issue Information
Raise Queries

Subcontractors

CEMDC

Construct

Subs with Design

EDM(CAD)
CEMDC

Generate Designs
Raise Queries
Seek Approval of Own Designs
Manufacture
Construct

Modes of Commun-ication

Using the internet

Email with EDI - Correspondence etc
FTP / HTTP for Technical Documents (upload for download)
HTML Forms with Server side processing (PHP etc)
- From someone with no software except a browser
- To someone with a software system, copied to sender
Complex Email with
- PDF (reproducible document not device sensitive),
- EDI (for receipt import into a software system), and
- HTML form (for response if recipient has no system)
Complex server side processing - Portal
- Slow in operation, as it uses FTP and HTTP, and HTML forms
- Limited in use for enquiries and reports
- No incoming inspection, and no one responsible.

ISO9001

Requires that EVERYONE keeps their OWN records
Makes YOU responsible for sending out the latest information to those to whom you have already issued it.

Points to Note

Solutions "out of the box" such as CEMDC are quick to set up, and simple to operate
EDM systems generally need a massive amount of configuration by consultants.
Portals are uncontrolled as the data input is no single person's responsibility