WALNUT CREEK, Calif.,
June 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- ARC Document Solutions,
Inc. (NYSE: ARC), a leading document solutions provider to design,
engineering, construction, and facilities management professionals,
today introduced its Project Information Management (PIM) services,
a major addition to its Construction Document and Information
Management solutions. Designed for active construction projects
with thousands of documents, PIM offers quick and easy access to
building plans and other information from a centralized, graphic
dashboard. Once a project is complete, the dashboard and associated
documents can then be turned over to the project owners to
facilitate building operations.
"By using PIM services, we access required project documents and
information with just a few clicks," says ARC customer George Lioio, Clark Construction Group project
engineer. "We get more done and get it done faster with PIM."
Finding a needle in the haystack of documents
"Finding one project document among thousands is always a
challenge," says Chris Savarese,
ARC's Director of Business Development for Construction Document
and Information Management, "especially as the volume of
information grows throughout the lifecycle of a project."
Using ARC's PIM services makes the process immeasurably faster
and easier over its conventional counterpart. Finding documents is
as easy as "point-and-click" on a computer, or "tap-and-swipe" on a
mobile device.
"Documents are the primary means of communication between
designers, engineers, and contractors on a construction project,"
Savarese says. "Yet we've found that many of our customers find it
challenging to navigate through the massive amount of information a
project can generate, whether on paper or even on a computer's hard
drive."
Collection, connections and closeout: addressing document
management during active construction
The problem of document management during an active construction
project is three-fold.
- First, active project documents are rarely collected in a
single place. Plans, specs, and product sheets are often maintained
in separate locations – they can be stored in digital folders or
hanging on drawing racks.
- Second, the connections between documents are lost – for
example, the detailed drawing of an electrical panel referenced in
a floorplan is often tied to a special numerical code that
references another document in the plan set. On paper, that means
looking up the code and searching one document among hundreds of
others; in digital form, it means someone has to search for files
on a hard drive.
- Third, turning over the "as-built" drawings to an owner or
facilities manager often consists of three-ring binders, product
manuals, and a mix of paper and digital files on CD's or
thumb-drives. Lose or damage any of these documents and a
building's "instruction manual" is incomplete.
"PIM enables a user to access thousands of linked digital
documents from one central page, making it easy to follow
connections between plans, specifications and other project
documents," explains Savarese. "PIM digital document linking and
web-based mark-up tools improve project collaboration, and
collecting the final drawings into a project closeout package for
the owner is simple and quick."
PIM advantages for construction professionals:
- Keep project engineers and other key personnel in the field
rather than organizing, searching, and distributing documents from
an office or project trailer
- Save time and increase productivity by maintaining one
comprehensive master set of documents
- Make all project documents available to anyone on the project
team via the cloud
- Keep current project documents up-to-date with document links
that carry forward from version-to-version
- Access linked project documents from anywhere using any
device
- Synchronize markups from one device to all devices
- View and interact with a user-friendly, touch-based
dashboard
- Gain a competitive advantage by providing a digital,
easy-to-use, and comprehensive project closeout package to
clients
About ARC Document Solutions (NYSE: ARC)
ARC Document Solutions distributes documents and information to
facilitate communication for design and construction professionals,
real estate managers and developers, facilities owners, and a
variety of similar disciplines. The company provides cloud and
mobile solutions, professional services, and hardware to help its
customers around the world to reduce costs and increase efficiency,
improve information access and control, and communicate faster,
easier and better. Connect and engage with us
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ARC Document Solutions is a registered trademark of ARC or its
subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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