Lascom AEC - Key Features

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PROJECT REPOSITORY: A single version of the truth

• Central project information repository with their inter relationships
• Structure project information into views
• Access through sophisticated search tools
• Allow users to create and reuse information
• Strong decision support (Impact analysis, Comparison...)
• Embedded task manager

Benefits

• Eliminate administrative tasks
• Better corporate knowledge management
• Reduced risks
• Improved response cycle

Lascom AEC, a global visionfrom an idea to project, and to infrastructure management

 

View and relationship structure

At the core of LASCOM AEC is the central repository which is used to manage all facility related data, documents, and event information and is the foundation upon which all other AEC Solution modules and workflow depend.

Specifically, the repository's role is to:

• Securely manage all information and their inter-relationships
• Structure views of the information based on these inter-relationships
• Enable information web access through a sophisticated range of search & reporting tools
• Allow users to create, reuse, and modify the information based on security access rights
• Facilitate analysis of the information using advanced features such as comparisons, gap analysis, where-used, and impact-analysis
• Allow detailed auditing of all repository activity.

Advanced search tools

The Project Information Repository stores a great deal of data, document, and event information. Therefore, in order to effectively locate specific information it is important to have a wide range of sophisticated search features.

 

DOCUMENT PRODUCTION: Strealining the document production

• Automatic link between CAD, Word and Excel document and repository
• CAD title block management
• Office Document template management
• Xref management
• Synchronization of Excel information (costs, ROI, milestone) and repository
• Associated heavy duty printing tools

Benefits

• Speeds up document production
• Avoids multiple copies of the documents
• Reduced risks with revision and history tracking
• Improved response cycle
• Document connectors

LASCOM AEC is the collaboration platform that speeds up document production with full audit trail.

CAD connectors ( Autodesk©, MicroStation©)

• Provide secure online central storage of all documents
• Open documents from the Repository directly into AutoCAD and MicroStation
• Manage all external references of an AutoCAD or MicroStation drawing
• Update document properties based on Repository field information

Microsoft Office© (Word, Excel) connectors:

• Manage document templates:
  • Contracts
  • Meeting notes
  • Bill of material
  • Gant
  • ...
• Provide secure online central storage of all documents
• Open documents from the Repository directly into Word, Excel
• Link AEC repository fields and document text
• Update document properties based on information defined within the AEC Repository and save associated modified document

 

COLLABORATION

View and markup

• Rendition of CAD and Office documents in neutral TIFF or PDF formats
• Instant view of documents over the Web
• Integrated Redlining creation, submission and acknowledgement process

Share Point Portal

LASCOM AEC can benefit from SharePoint portal features: project Share Point site calendar, meetings, ...

Collaboration

Lascom AEC records the entire change history, comments, suggestions and collaboration points made during the development process.
Lascom AEC therefore maintains the complete design intent of the data and can be used to trace why certain decisions were made.

Printing

Powerful optional Print server can be used to launched heavy duty jobs with automatic scaling stamping

Approval and distribution

Standard AEC Business Processes ensure document validation and distribution once finalized.

 

CHANGE PROCESS and PROJECTS

• Project template definition
• User access can be locked to projects
• Security model can be defined for every project
• Manages users, subcontractors, work orders and bid response

Benefits

Better decision support

Shorter project cycles

Project dashboards and metrics

Lascom AEC project management option organizes data and documents by projects and customers. For every project, users share a common collaboration space. You stay focus and you are not diverted by a mass of information which is not relevant to your tasks.

The project organization module allows you to:

• Create, Edit Project templates
• Define data structures (project configurations) for every project
• Define users, roles and the security model
• Compare actual and template project
• Subscribe, publish, distribute data, folders and documents of the project

 

BUSINESS PROCESS

• Enables standardized, managed, repeatable business processes
• Automatically notify participants of work assignments
• Intuitive graphical tool simplifies business rule definition
• Track in-progress workflow status & manage escalations
• Standard built in processes

 

Benefits

• Improves collaboration with a dispersed team
• Alert notifications
• Audits on delays and bottlenecks
• Powerful decision support
• Project team follow up

Lascom AEC Solution improves the efficiency and visibility of key business processes through workflow software and easy-to-use web interfaces. Internal and external stakeholders can more effectively collaborate on key areas such as:

• Project launch,
• Graphical layout validation
• Field/Engineering change order
• Field non conformance
• Work order / Request for quotations
• Vendor/Customer transmittal

 

REPORTING

• Built in set of reports
• Excel reporting dashboards
• Complementary Reporting services for ad hoc reporting