This edition has our latest updates, including customer insights and updates. We also have the latest information on Meridian, Lunr, and 2023 workplace trends.

Happy New Year and welcome to our January update.

SA Water continues the Lunr journey to cater for 3D content, including BIM, Inventor, Navisworks, and point cloud files.

Meridian upgrades are being planned or underway with a number of sites, including Sydney Water, Perilya, Bega, Incitec (Dyno Nobel). The NZAS (New Zealand Aluminium Smelter) Meridian upgrade is complete.

If you're considering a Meridian upgrade, please contact us to start the discussion.

Marco Russian from Onset Design caught up with Rubie Noronah from BHP for a discussion about the roadmap and planning for 2023.

Marco and Damien Flux also met with Matthew Hohnke (middle) from DXC (Queensland Rail support) to plan for the coming year.

Meridian - Update on DCOM Hardening

Microsoft has published an additional Windows “DCOM client-side” patch on November 8, 2022, which eliminates the need for users of DCOM applications to deploy application-specific patches to mitigate the effects of the DCOM hardening.

Meridian Webinar - Concurrent Engineering

Managing the Reality of Complicated Changes

See how Meridian makes current engineering a breeze with its automated change management workflows, simple document tracking, visual document comparison, and accurate document versioning.

Lunr - most popular blog

A search for Drawing Management System on Google retrieves our most popular Lunr blog post - 'What is a Drawing Management System'.

Sean shares his industry experience to make 3 main points and describe 9 key features. As well as sharing a short video on Lunr, this article outlines the challenges of introducing a system, as well as providing you with a checklist.

LBS Professor of Management Lynda Gratton, an expert on the future of work, spoke to the World Economic Forum Book Club podcast about her latest book Redesigning Work: How to transform your organisation and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone.

She shared her prediction of work and workplace trends that we can expect to see more of in 2023. These are:

• The Four-day week of greater flexibility
• More People joining the workforce
• A shift in the balance of power again between employee and employer in the war for talent
• A desire for more autonomy
• A return to the office for friendships

Find out what Lynda has to say on each trend via the podcast

Please feel free to contact us to discuss how we can support you to align with these workplace trends.