Press ReleasesNew EDMS Helps Arch Chemicals Customers Easily Provide Clean, Safe WaterDAYTON, OHIO (March 22, 2000)—Helping customers efficiently and economically provide clean and safe water is the goal of the Water Chemicals division of Norwalk, Conn.-based Arch Chemicals, Inc. Systems like a new Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) recently installed at the Charleston, Tenn., plant will help achieve this goal. When Arch split with Olin Corporation in February 1999, it identified the need to improve its system capabilities. In August of 1999, Arch's Charleston Water Chemicals plant representatives began meeting with Dayton-based Document Imaging Solutions, Inc. (DIS) to discuss ways to upgrade its existing EDMS. (Prior to the split with Olin, and since 1994, all engineering drawings had been managed by EDMS.) In an effort to keep manufacturing and engineering prices down through efficiencies in managing engineering drawings, DIS upgraded Arch's Charleston Water Chemicals' existing Step2000 software developed by Cincinnati, Ohio-based Universal Document Management Systems, Inc. (UDMS). More than 50 employees use the upgraded EDMS to view and print 25,000-plus engineering drawings. Engineering personnel can control these drawings with check-in and check-out procedures, issue drawing numbers, and track previous revisions. Using Step2000, the personnel can control both DWG (AutoCAD vector file) and Rastor (GP4 image file) drawings. During a second phase, DIS will build capabilities into the EDMS to manage capital project scopes and authorizations, material take-offs (itemized materials lists), and estimates. Mike Wallace, AutoCAD Step2000 administrator for Arch's Charleston Water Chemicals plant, expects the plant's need for its new EDMS to grow steadily. For the foreseeable future, he projects at least 100 new projects a year incorporating four to five drawings each. "The DIS system makes our documents quickly accessible, meaning a significant time savings for archive tracking and retrieval. It also helps us engineer more efficiently, resulting in lesser fees and charge-out rates and, therefore, lower production costs to help keep manufacturing and engineering prices down. Plus, it makes trouble-shooting more seamless," Wallace explained. "We're an ISO 9000 company, and we must be able to efficiently manage P&IDs, [piping and instrumentation diagrams] which are the arteries of our plants," he added. These drawings show a block diagram of a plant's operation-all controls and equipment, electrical drawings, and the process flow. The EDMS will help control all of these documents and their security, and they will be easily accessible. Water Chemicals, a business segment within Arch Chemicals, Inc. is a world leader in water sanitation. From municipal drinking water to commercial and residential swimming pools, you'll find its products all over the globe keeping water clean and safe. The Arch Water Chemicals' Web site address is www.archchemicals.com. Dayton, Ohio-based Document Imaging Solutions, Inc. (DIS), is a privately held systems integration company focused on providing high quality, cost-effective Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) and Automated Workflow solutions, system solution components, related professional services, and scanning conversion services. More information about DIS is available at www.DISolutions.com. Contacts for this Press Release: Victor Vlad |
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