Meridian

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Engineering Document Management Made Easy

About Meridian

Meridian streamlines engineering document management to ensure safety and compliance, maximize company-wide collaboration, and provide a single source of truth for operations and maintenance teams. Meridian is a powerful, purpose-built engineering document management system (EDMS) that can transform your operations.

Key features:

Controlled Digital Workflows
Our engineering document control capabilities allow users to pass through pre-defined review and approval steps to make document changes. This helps maintain compliance, control changes, prevent human error, and ensure all boxes are checked.

Electronic Print Stamps and Watermarks
Every time you view, modify, or print a GMP document in Meridian, a print stamp and watermark will be automatically generated on each PDF rendering of the document with key timing information. So you’ll never have to worry about having the “correct version” in your hands, and your team will always have the most up-to-date version. 

Mobile Capabilities
Employees need to be able to access important documentation on the go, remotely, or in multiple places at once. With Meridian’s online access, users can see asset information – and all related documentation at once – from any device.

Electronic Signatures
When a GMP document is put into a workflow, it must pass through a series of reviews. As each user reviews or approves the document, their digital signature is manifested on the PDF rendition of the document in the order they signed. These workflows help ensure that the right people review and approve the document, simplify document management, and build an immutable audit trail.

Clear Audit Trail
By centralizing documentation and ensuring compliance to change management standards, Accruent engineering document management software provides a clear and accurate audit trail — including asset life information and detailed document history — that can reduce risk, help maintain document security and simplify compliance processes.

Work Order Management
Meridian EDMS provides a single source of engineering truth for all documents related to a work order. It also provides multiple ways to search for all types of critical documents, drawings, and associated assets. A user can find documents via tag scan, location, asset name, and many other identifiers. With a few clicks, maintenance teams will have all the information needed to complete the job efficiently.

Comprehensive CAD Management
Meridian EDMS is purpose-built to allow users to store, maintain, and update interrelated or interdependent CAD files, BIM models, drawings, schematics, and other documentation. This — along with features like digital workflows, audit trails and a defined feedback process — can help all users simplify compliance and understand who made decisions, when.

CMMS and ERP Integrations
Even with a robust CMMS platform, there’s often critical documentation — like complex engineering documents, facility documentation, CAD drawings and technical documents — that can’t be readily accessed or updated. Connecting Meridian to your CMMS system can help you easily access all your critical information and share field-related changes to document owners with ease.

Controlled External Document Exchange
Meridian simplifies project document change and external sharing using a controlled digital process — both to and from contractors and company-shared services. It also eliminates the need to use uncontrolled or unsanctioned tools such as Dropbox, network drives, email, or FTP sites.


Key benefits of Meridian

Efficient engineering document control: Engineering documentation is often unstructured, dispersed across various systems, constantly changing, and needed by many departments at once. Meridian is able to track parallel changes, streamline concurrent engineering, and keep your engineering projects under control.  

Optimized operations: Access to a centralized repository allows you complete control over all critical assets, facility, and engineering documentation, including complex technical manuals, computer-aided design (CAD) drawings, project files, and more.

Enhanced safety: Meridian’s centralized repository provides instant access to the most up-to-date Master documentation, which is critical when responding to an asset or plant emergency.

Improved collaboration: Meridian’s accessible, centralized, and transparent information helps every department in your business — including engineering, maintenance and operations, capital projects, IT, and external contractors — work together to get the job done.

Reduced costs and downtime: Avoid asset failures and plant shutdowns by always having the most accurate engineering information. Meridian ensures more effective and efficient routine and unplanned maintenance for greater business continuity, asset uptime, and a decrease in labor costs. It also mitigates risk so you can avoid health and safety incidents.

Scalable platform: Meridian’s engineering document management software supports the entire enterprise versus just one plant or location. Meridian scales for the enterprise with its ability to manage hundreds of thousands of interrelated documents, drawings, and information throughout its entire document lifecycle.


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Value for Money
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Features
4/5
Ease of Use
3.9/5
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  • Industry: Government Relations
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Managinng technical drawings and documents

Reviewed on 31/03/2021

Support is excellent for this application. The consultants are extremely helpful.

Support is excellent for this application. The consultants are extremely helpful.

Pros

Documents kan be saved to vaults with the same hierarchy needed to interface with an asset management application.

Cons

There is a fairly steep learning curve in order to use all of the functions of this application adequately.

Norma
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  • Industry: Utilities
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

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Reviewed on 24/09/2024

overall has been good. Good support from the application

overall has been good. Good support from the application

Pros

capability to tag assets, how to view revision history

Cons

our company experience a lot of error messages, but trying to figure out if it has to do with the fact that we use a different platform to access the applications

Alternatives Considered

AutoCAD

Reasons for Choosing Meridian

looking for an application to be able to be used across our company

Switched From

AutoCAD

Reasons for Switching to Meridian

Features demoed were something that caught our attention
Paul
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  • Industry: Chemicals
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Meridian Review 2024

Reviewed on 12/03/2024

Meridian Enterprise is (one of) the best EDM Systems on the market with efficient and effective...

Meridian Enterprise is (one of) the best EDM Systems on the market with efficient and effective search capabilities to edit and store the latest accurate documentation.

Pros

Meridian Enterprise is (one of) the best EDM Systems on the market with efficient and effective search capabilities to edit and store the latest accurate documentation.

Cons

Meridian Portal is still not on par and needs a lot more configuration as it is not user friendly and has issues communicating well with Power. Many users get very confused because of the minimal information on the document status in the workflow. Meridian Power and Explorer are much more intuitive and if something is entered incorrectly one gets an error message with clarification. In Portal you can't see what went wrong and it causes issues after the fact.

Alternatives Considered

OnBase, Google Docs and Oracle Aconex

Reasons for Choosing Meridian

A very old system w/o sufficient workflow capabilities and very difficult search options to find the documents one is looking for.

Switched From

OnBase

Reasons for Switching to Meridian

In a 137 requirements bid tab Meridian had the least amount of failed issues.
Steve
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  • Industry: Mining & Metals
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Meridian software review

Reviewed on 22/02/2024

I am working with this software since more than 20 years today and I am very familiar with...

I am working with this software since more than 20 years today and I am very familiar with functionnalities and issues. When a new functionnality is implemented, it is less likely to be mature at first. Support time response from your engineering department need to be improved. Being supported by a third party makes too much layer to get support from Engineering department. Aligning schedule of everyone make anoying delays on response time. Over all we still had a good experience and we are very proud of having this software so far.

Pros

It is integrated with software on user side
It can manage CAD files
Capability to work remotely and off line
BIM in mind for the future

Cons

Support for bugs or issues are very long to get resolved when it hits Accruent engineering department.
Lack of explanation or documentation on how to use the Power interface remotely with CAD sofware integration.
There is no clear details how best to use it with Autodesk products especially in our case with Inventor.
We often find issues on new release version and it get frustated to see the time it takes to get issues fixed.
Being supported by a third party, it get hard to be supported by Accruent on a timely manner.

Ann
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  • Industry: Utilities
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Senior Civil Engineering Assistant

Reviewed on 23/09/2024

I am a document controller for over a hundred engineers for an electric hydro utility for Seattle.

I am a document controller for over a hundred engineers for an electric hydro utility for Seattle.

Pros

Being able to organize and make accessible engineering documents for all to see. I also like being able to view current and past document revisions and keep things up-to-date and accurate.

Cons

Some find Meridian PowerWeb cumbersome to use.

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51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

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