Contents
Engineering Document Management
Basics of Document Management Document Management Systems Practical Tips about Document Management
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Application Server
The application server executes all the business logic and controls access to the metadata and document files (check in / check out).
Storage
Relational database for storing the metadata Vault for storing the actual document files Often the vault is just a directory hierarchy in a normal file system, controlled by the application server
A lot of stand-alone document management systems exist, for example Documentum or FileNet.
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Practical Tips
Be careful with classifying document identifications!!! Use attributes (metadata) and/or document/product structures to find the information instead. It is very difficult and costly to change the document identification later.
Example: KCO-P-L-E-01
KCO = KONE Corporate Offices P = Policy L = Legal E = Europe
Exception: ID can tell, what the document is, for example, that it is an installation instruction.
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Key information must be visible in the document as well as in the system, as people often have paper copies floating around and it must be easy to verify that it is the correct version.
Document identification Version identification Date
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Background:
The EDMS system is a product of Variantum Jorma Heimonen worked at KONE as PDM Specialist from 1993 to 2004
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KONE Corporation
Worlds fourth largest elevator company One of the worlds leading escalator companies Modernization and maintenance of existing systems account for 2/3 of the revenue Growth from the automatic door service business Present in more than 40 countries with some 800 service centers Strategic alliance with Toshiba of Japan since 1998 Turnover: EUR 2,814 million Personnel: 23,800 employees Sales: 25,000 new elevators and escalators Almost 520,000 elevators and escalators and more than 210,000 automatic building doors under maintenance contract Operating income before goodwill amortization (EBITA): EUR 298.6 million Orders received: EUR 2,021 million
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KONE Products
KONE sells, manufactures, installs, maintains and modernizes elevators and escalators and services automatic building doors. Products:
New elevators Technology leader with EcoDisc hoisting technology New escalators and walkways Maintenance and modernization products Maintenance of automatic building doors
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Global order engineering, production and logistics A lot of the production subcontracted to partners
Service Business
Long life cycles of product individuals
ASEA-Graham Lift no 1: 1898 KONE Lift no 27: 1920
Service and spare parts Information must be available Advantage to have the original as-built information available (order-specific drawings, Bill-of-Material)
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Documents at KONE
Main Types of Documents
Commercial Documents
Invoices, order confirmations, shipping documents etc -> from ERP Legal requirements for storage
Training Material
Product, Process and Organisational Training
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Documents at KONE
Product Documentation
Marketing Material (brochures etc) Technical Instructions:
Planning (PG) and Sales (DL) instructions Owners/User's manuals Product Descriptions and Ordering instructions (SO) Installation instructions (AM) Service, Maintenance and Spare Parts Instructions (AS,AR) 3D Models Assembly and Part drawings, Parts lists Configuration Instructions Testing instructions Software Binary Files Specifications
Drawings
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Project documentation: varies from well-managed to non-existent Order-specific drawings managed as product documentation
Informal project documentation not really managed C-drive, Network drive, email folders No identifications, no versioning
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KONE Document Management Systems Variantum EDMS (Engineering Data Management System)
KONE Global PDM System Product Documentation: Drawings, Instructions, Certificates Parts and Product Structures with documents linked into the structures Engineering Change Management
Documentum (www.documentum.com)
Archiving of ERP data (old invoices etc.) Production of technical instructions (XML-based information management) Management of some business process and quality documentation
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Global system:
EDMS Web available in KONE Intranet globally (>6000 users) Extranet access to selected subcontractors (both manufacturers and R&D subcontractors)
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Software (Server)
Variantum EDMS Application Server Database: PostgreSQL Version 8.0.3 WWW: CGI scripts written in the TCL language (http://tcl.activestate.com/) Full text indexing: Idzebra (www.indexdata.dk) Linux (Fedora Core 3) Backup: IBM Tivoli TSM Monitoring: Nagios (www.nagios.org)
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Hardware:
normal PC servers with Linux IBM TotalStorage Fasst SAN (Fiber Optic Disks) For clients: Any normal office PC with free viewing tools
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EDMS Web
WWW Interface to EDMS In use at KONE since 1995 Original purpose: make it easy to find and read information
Find the latest approved versions of documents based on simple attributes or traditional paper binders and present them in the viewing format (PDF)
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EDMS Web
Main functionality (continued) Saving Documents
Save a simple drawing to EDMS (easier than Jedi UI) Task-specific tools for saving certain drawing types to EDMS Idea: most of the attributes can be filled in automatically Order-specific drawings
Additional services: WWW applications linked both to EDMS and some other systems (for example information about Elevator Deliveries)
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