Making intercorporate project communications work Solutions for the international market place

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Making intercorporate project communications
workSolutions for the international market place

• Mikko Vuorikoski - CEO Single Source Oy
• Tekniikantie 12, 02150 Espoo, Finland
• 358-9-8501 9943
• mikko.vuorikoski_at_kronodoc.fi
• Nils Høimyr, CERN IT division, Geneva
• Nils.Hoimyr_at_cern.ch

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Contents of the presentation

• Future of organisations
• Single Source Oy
• Kronodoc Product
• Examples from CERN
• More information

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Future of organisations

• Organisations are being born for a purpose
• Organisations are about communications and
  control
• Organisations experience continuous evolution
• Organisation are about people doing things
  together to reach common goals
• Work in organisations is projects,
  routines are done by machines and
  computers

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Communication models in organisations
Point-to-Point Communication
Coordinated Communication

• fines, reminders, reviews
• management as a fire brigade
• development difficult

• controlled material flows
• means to understand / develop
• prospects to shorten lead-time

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Single Source Oy

• Founded in 1997 for the technology transfer from
  CERN project
• licensing the technology and commercial rights
• productification of Kronodoc
• launching the product
• Raising capital and organising operations in 1999
• 15 employees in June 2000. Goal for the end or
  year 34
• Goal for turnover in 2000 over MFIM 10 (1.6 Meur)
• Located in Innopoli, close to Helsinki University
  of Technology
• Representation in Sweden and Norway planned
  during 2000

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The Kronodoc product

• A solution, which combines document and project
  management
• Fully web-technology based solution for the so
  called Extended Enterprise, where a project
  organisation is widely distributed
• First versions of the system into production in
  1996
• 13500 users at CERN
• estimated 4.5 million documents will be created
• Other users
• DESY 1997, Max Planck Institute 1998, Finnish
  Meteorological Institute 1999
• Commercial version for corporate use 1999
• Wärtsilä Diesel, PI-Group, Heptagon Ltd

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Concept Process support
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Concept Integrating project participants
WWW
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Mobile Internet

• Mobile Internet will be main stream technology in
  project work as people move around
• In networked organisations project support and
  applications are leased from ASPs
• Key issues are fast availability according to
  needs
• Today GSM network bandwidth is a bottle neck for
  volume use of Internet applications via mobile
  connections
• UMTS terminals will facilitate heavy duty
  industrial applications to be used with an UMTS
  terminal without other computer terminal

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Engineering, fulfilment and maintenance in large
projects
Schedule
Phase
Project planning Engineering design Construction
plan Offers Construction Delivery/Start of
use ServiceMaintenance
Change
Original
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Knowledge/Document accumulation in large projects
Planning and engineering User /
Service organisations
company
Project planning Offers
Delivery Engineering Construction
Maintenance Construction plan
Changes
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Product User Interface
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Kronodoc Web Architecture
Web Browsers
No extra software neededon browser workstations
Kronodoc
Web Server
Platform independent world-wide engineering
working space
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Kronodoc Web Technology

• Client platform
• Web browser environment
• Internet Explorer 4.0
• Netscape Navigator 3.0
• optionally
• viewer modules (Acrobat etc)
• native authoring applications (Office, AutoCAD
  etc)

Kronodoc
World-Wide-Web

• Web Server
• Current platforms
• Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6 7 / SPARC
• HP-UX 10.20 / HP PA
• Digital Unix V4.0 / Alpha
• Red Hat Linux 5.0 .. 5.2 / Intel

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Product Management tools
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What is Tuovi Kronodoc suitable for

• Large project Knowledge Management
• One of the kind projects
• Whole life-cycles of investments
• engineering
• construction
• maintenance
• Exchange of formal information in multi-party
  organisations
• Supplier, consultants, users, ....
• Document management and archiving/retrieving in
  distributed organisations

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Simple user view to engineering data
Horisontal project integration
Increased extended enterprise complexity
Design (PDM)
Operation and maintenance (Asset management)
Robust document management
Manufacturing (MRP)
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Tuovi/Kronodoc at CERN -use of modular software
EDMS Web Web interface to access data in any
engineering database based on TuoviWDM and
plug-in modules to Oracle utilities an other
information systems. Equipment id generator Web
application to generate unique ids for
equipment. Traveller Log book primarily
developed for the LHC magnets. Each traveller
contains a set of documents and tasks needed to
be performed for the equipment.
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CERN EDMSweb (Kronodoc)

• EDMSweb standard template
• Used for document management in a number of
  distributed projects
• Basic document management functions as well as
  more advanced operations for items and projects

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CERN EDMSWeb - 2
LHC HW baseline shown via TuoviWDM Project
specific look- and feel using LHC template Freedo
m in choosing look and feel a great asset
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CERN - LHC Parameters

• The LHC Design, Parameters Layout databases
  can be accessed via EDMSweb
• By clicking on a node on the left the
  corresponding application is brought up on the
  right
• Use of Tuovi templates and a number of CERN DB
  applications.

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Case Contract follow-up

• To manage all documents related to all major
  contracts for LHC
• follows CERNs contracting routines, all
  documents are stored
• Integrated with CERNs administrative database
  and purchasing system

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CERN EDMS -technology

• Access to all important engineering information
  for the LHC via one Web user-interface with
  customer-specific look and feel
• Built on on top of standard software components
• TuoviWDM 2.0 Web interface toolkit (Kronodoc)
• CADIM/EDB PDM system
• Datastream MP5 asset management system
• Oracle web server and other Oracle tools used for
  search in CERN proprietary databases as well as
  communication between different applications
• Most of the implementation work done at the level
  of transfer tables and project specific templates

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How to take contact

• At Single Source
• Mikko Vuorikoski (CEO)
• 358-9-8501 9943, 358-50-545 8981 (mobile)
• mikko.vuorikoski_at_kronodoc.fi
• At CERN
• Rainer Puittinen (Chief developer)
• rainer.puittinen_at_cern.ch
• Nils Høimyr (CERN IT division, CERN PDM issues)
• Nils.Hoimyr_at_cern.ch

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• Thank you!