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

Welcome to our March newsletter update.

The Meridian upgrade with Bega Cheese is complete, and upgrades are in the final stages with Sydney Water, Perilya, and Incitec (Dyno Nobel).

The project at SA Water to incorporate BIM and 3D models is almost complete, while another project is adding the Victorian road network documents to the repositories within the Department of Transport.

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

Marco, Damien, and Daniel of Onset Design caught up with Alice (left) and John (middle) from Aurizon for a roadmap and planning discussion.

Lunr Connectors (Integrations)

Previous articles have focused on the power and benefits associated with using Lunr to manage your documentation. However, unlocking the real power associated with your engineering content comes from integrations with other enterprise systems, to leverage their content and expose documents to a wider audience.

A couple of examples illustrate this. Firstly, utilise the asset hierarchy from systems such as Maximo or Ellipse to structure engineering content relating to assets. This allows you to position a QR code at the asset location to provide a link to the related documentation.

Secondly, Esri layers exposed in the Lunr map view are available to show the physical location of assets. Using your mobile device, allows you to retrieve all drawings within a given radius of the asset location.

The following connectors are available today:

• CAD (including AutoCAD and MicroStation)
• Esri
• Ellipse
• Maximo
• Archibus
• MazeMap
• SISfm

While the connectors listed above are available off the shelf, Lunr has a fully documented API to ensure integrations with enterprise systems are part of your solution.

Some experts predict things will be worse in 2023 than the 2008-2009 recession. Although 2022 was a double-edged sword, it brought leaders ample hardships, but also important lessons for the future. There’s no doubt 2023 will throw us curve balls, so it’s important for leaders to stay one step ahead of what’s to come to prepare for business challenges.

The following 5 key drivers for 2023 to prioritise workplace transformation:

• Improve Employee Experience
• Health and Well-Being
• Attract & Retain talent
• Improve Space utilisation
• Reduce Real Estate Cost

How is your organisation prioritising workplace transformation to meet employees’ expectations?

Onset and Accruent may assist with your workplace transformation. Our solutions help organisations to improve workplace experience and utilisation.

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

Meridian - PowerBI Whitepaper

We know that with Meridian, metadata is key to finding and easily retrieving our documents. In this whitepaper, we introduce you to Microsoft’s Power BI in Microsoft 365 and explore how to integrate this with your Meridian environment to give you more meaningful insights into the metadata of your projects. Build a PowerBI dashboard and display this in Meridian using an external URL.

Meridian Webinar - Concurrent Engineering

Managing the Reality of Complicated Changes

In case you missed it last month, catch up on this webinar showing automated change management workflows, simple document tracking, visual document comparison, and accurate document versioning.