Bechtel and the Department of Energy Nevada Test Site: Cross-Platform Support for Distributed User Community

A unique national resource, the Nevada Test Site (NTS) is a massive outdoor laboratory and national experimental center that has seen more than four decades of nuclear weapons testing. Bechtel Nevada performs management and operational activities at the NTS and offsite locations, including scanning, indexing, archiving, and disseminating test result documentation and facility engineering drawings. Such critical tasks demand a leading-edge document management and workflow solution. Optix was the obvious first choice.

Optix: Opportunity

Cross-platform support for Macintosh and Windows PCs required
Various media types and document sizes – including older test documentation on microfilm and microfiche to large format facility drawings, aperture cards, and modern electronic and paper documents
Diverse, geographically-dispersed user community

Optix: Optimized

Indexing of over 850,000 critical documents – including over 40,000 engineering drawings on aperture cards, 50,000 large format facility drawings, and 750,000 paper documents
Ability to quickly design and deploy repositories for large range of incoming documents – with no programming required
Support for 250+ member user community across multiple locations
Browser-based access to documents for infrequent or remote users