Case Study: AkzoNobel Industrial Chemicals achieves standardized, controlled engineering change management and rapid asset information access with Accruent's Meridian

How AkzoNobel Industrial Chemicals utilizes Meridian for better management for concurrent engineering projects and up-to-date asset information

AkzoNobel Industrial Chemicals, a chemical manufacturer with about 1,900 employees across six countries and £4.96B in annual revenue, needed to modernize how it managed engineering change. Its legacy document systems left engineering-change processes unstandardized, document ownership unclear, as-built records unreliable, and critical asset information difficult for Maintenance and Operations to access.

The company implemented Accruent Meridian for engineering information management, providing secure vaulting, document lifecycle and revision control, seamless transfers between as-built, project and archive states, and integrations with AutoCAD, Microsoft Office and SAP PM. As a result AkzoNobel standardized and controlled concurrent engineering changes, improved asset-data accuracy, enabled Maintenance and Operations to retrieve documents in seconds, and realized faster, more consistent access and tangible ROI.

AkzoNobel

Hendrik Lohof

Engineering Project Manager