eB for Engineering & Construction offers a comprehensive Project Information Management solution that ensures the delivery of secure, relevant, trusted information to your project team, resulting in projects that are completed on schedule, under budget and in compliance.

Overview

EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) customers use eB to manage the complete information life cycle of project-related activity from the design engineering and construction phase to the operations and maintenance phase.

eB provides a powerful information modelling capability that allows organizations to quickly and easily structure and organize their project information assets. eB’s predefined, ready-to-use information objects provide a rich model for classifying information and establishing relationships between relevant objects. Utilizing eB, it is easy to see who is responsible for information, what the information describes, where it is located and what it is related to.

eB ensures information integrity through a robust, built-in change management capability that manages the information assets and their relevant relationships through a proven change management process that identifies the effects of change and manages the workflow for approvals, notifications, releases, distributions, and accountability of changes that occur across the project.

Business Values

In these trying economic times, EPC organizations are seeking solutions that help them reduce business risk, improve project predictability and avoid costly penalties by improving overall project visibility and information quality.
A global EPC company has achieved project milestone completions continually 20% ahead of schedule and up to 10% below budget, through the application of eB.

With eB, EPC organizations realize the following benefits:

Information accuracy is vastly improved and can be trusted for business operations
Information modeling identifies who is responsible for information, what the information describes, where it is located and what it is related to, making for faster and better business decisions
Automated classification of information enforces information governance, policies and controls
Powerful records management securely stores all paper and electronic records with defined retention and disposition rules to ensure regulatory compliance
Contextual search, retrieval, viewing, and printing of documents and records increases productivity and efficiency Integration with other business applications streamline processes and eliminate discreet, disparate repositories of information
Making informed decisions based on the use of the eB change effects analysis function allows managers to ensure that all affected information is taken into account when planning and managing changes
Project closure is often affected by delays in providing all of the necessary information specified in contracts–eB has built-in functions to improve project information handover to streamline project completion

Recording, locating and providing information for legal purposes is a key benefit of eB. Departments searching, compiling and preparing documents for court cases and other actions has been reduced from months in some cases, to mere minutes. Moreover, complying with statutory mandates has become nearly automatic, with built-in document scheduling and routing processes.

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