This edition has our latest updates, including customer insights and updates. We also have the latest information on Meridian and Lunr Mobile, as well as a discussion about the importance of incorporating asset hierarchy.

Welcome to our July newsletter. The transition to July at the end of our financial year also represented the successful completion of a number of long-running projects we'd been working on with our customers.

Aurizon went live with a new Projects vault in Meridian, recognising that a multi-discipline project space is the best approach for receiving documents today. While discipline-specific document vaults had served well for a number of years, this siloed approach didn't lend itself to capturing documentation during the project lifecycle.

A Meridian upgrade with Sydney Water was representative of the complexity of many fast-moving projects in the enterprise space today. The intersection of many parallel projects meant working with multiple project teams upgrading server operating systems and enterprise databases to prioritise tasks and adapt timelines. This is the reality for IT projects in the modern enterprise and involves compromise and consensus to achieve completion. Well done to all those involved!

Incorporation of the roads (VicRoads) documents within the (Victorian) Department of Transport DMS was completed with the migration of around 500,000 drawings.

SA Water has gone live with Lunr for BIM and 3D. The Lunr cloud portal is now used to accept and validate drawing packages from external contractors, which are seamlessly synchronised to Meridian projects via the Lunr Meridian connector.

Meridian upgrades with Sorbent and Incitec (Dyno Nobel) were completed, and are ongoing with NRG and Perilya. We also have a number of upgrades in the pipeline, some of which are dependent on the upcoming Meridian 2023 release.

Thinking about Meridian? Check out this ROI tool on the Accruent website and contact us to discuss licensing.

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

Understanding Asset Hierarchy

Lunr manages 2D and 3D engineering documents on the Cloud and, for most asset owners, it makes sense to contextualise this data within the organisation's asset hierarchy.

Asset owners have a vested interest in managing the intellectual property (IP) associated with assets valued at millions of dollars. Maintaining the value of these assets and ensuring productive and efficient operations and maintenance requires effective and robust data management as a core tenet. Capturing these documents during the project lifecycle and managing them throughout the asset lifecycle is a fundamental component of successfully overseeing both the assets and the associated business operations.

To illustrate this further, the water utilities we collaborate with often utilise systems like SAP, Maximo, or Ellipse for asset management, monitoring, and maintenance. Both Meridian and Lunr have the ability to process the underlying asset hierarchy to tag operations and maintenance documentation, enabling swift retrieval. As shown below, the Asset Type is readily available as a search element, which can be further filtered based on location or function.

The best way to experience this is to set up a Lunr trial and upload some models. Our team is ready to work with you on getting started with Lunr to test suitability for your organisation. Please get in touch to start the discussion today.

Lunr Mobile App

The development of the Lunr Mobile app continues and here are a few of new elements:

• All document properties (tags) can be viewed on document details page
• Document search can be performed on any tags configured as searchable
• Infinite (continuous) scrolling support added to search results
• Over-the-air (OTA) update support added for iOS
• Android mobile app coming up to beta test
• Performance improved in document PDF and map view functionalities