CORUS

One highly satisfied CAB-I-NET user is Corus Colors, Shotton, a division of the merged British Steel and Koninklijke Hoogovens, the Dutch metals conglomerate.

Derek Wilkinson, past Manager at Corus Colors commented "We have greatly reduced our plant delays in 3 years, and CAB-I-NET has played a great part in this, by giving our engineers access to drawings 7 days a week, 24 hours a day."

The system prior to CAB-I-NET was paper based, and drawings were only available during certain hours. Corus Colors embarked on a project to scan 100,000 drawings, creating many indexes and providing access across the department. An added benefit was providing a secure electronic copy of every plant drawing.

Corus and tsaADVET worked together to specify the system requirements. Access to the system was provided through the CORUS local area network and the standard office desktop, using Internet Explorer™, thus complying with Corus Colors I.T. policy. CAB-i-NET handles only approved and released drawings, either from the Drawing Office CAD system or from the vault of 100,000 scanned drawings. This means that only the latest and approved drawing releases can be accessed, issued and printed. The dated print header validates the life of the paper drawing at 30 days and ensures compliance with company QA procedures.

There are 50 users of the system, with increasing demand for more. Drawings are marked up by hand on site and returned to the drawing office for the master copy to be amended. Corus Colors now has a system that has greatly reduced the risk of drawings being lost or wrong releases being used.

CAB-i-NET is a vital tool for organisations requiring a reduction in cost, error and to meet project deadlines. CAB-i-NET provides easy-to-use 24-hour global access to accurate and up-to-date drawings and documents and avoids the potential problems associated with the current vogue for vendor-run project hosting sites. This makes it of particular value to companies that need to control their own costs, data and destiny.