BWXT Pantex and the Department of Energy’s Pantex Plant:  Striking Efficiency Gains

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The Pantex Plant is responsible for maintaining the safety, security, and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.  BWXT Pantex evaluates, retrofits, and repairs weapons in support of both life extension programs and certification of weapons safety and reliability.  All work at Pantex is carried out under these overarching priorities:  the security of weapons and information, the safety and health of workers and the public, and protection of the environment.  In seeking a document management and workflow solution  for their highly sensitive and critical operations, Pantex turned to Optix.

Optix:  Opportunity

• Need to maintain strict security controls over weapons information
• Extensive libraries of active and archived information, consisting of multiple document types (administrative forms, test procedures, manuals, plant drawings, and weapons and medical records)
• Management of classified and unclassified materials required

Optix: Optimized

• 93% decrease in processing time for routing and approval of chemical approval forms
• 400 boxes of medical records scanned in under six weeks
• Management of millions of documents across the organization
• Electronic scanning and archiving of documents from user desktops
• Streamlined procedures throughout the enterprise
• Easy integration with legacy systems