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Process Monitoring and Optimisation
News Release from: BIW Technologies | Subject: PlanWeaver
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 October 2003
Information-driven process analysis
software
The world's first commercially available information-driven process analysis software, from BIW Technologies, will be demonstrated at ProjectWorld Exhibition November 12-13 in NEC Hall 8 Stand 214
The world's first commercially available software for information-driven process planning and decision support, conceived and developed in the United Kingdom and designed for large and complex projects, will be demonstrated at ProjectWorld, the first company appearance at the exhibition Enhancing rather than replacing existing project management software, PlanWeaver from software developer BIW Technologies is a powerful process analysis tool
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 10 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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It is estimated that using PlanWeaver may lead to total savings of between 0.75 - 1.6 percent of a project value.
PlanWeaver may be used on its own or it will integrate with and enhance project management products such as Artemis, Asta, Primavera, Microsoft Project or similar systems.
In addition, the software complements change management and business process management activities.
"Designed to fill the gap between process modelling and traditional project schedules, PlanWeaver reflects the aims of lean thinking," said BIW Technologies sales director Steve Cooper.
"Wasteful activities and bottlenecks may be identified and removed and productive activities refined and integrated".
Based on the award-winning Analytical Design Planning Technique and dependency structure matrix analysis theory, PlanWeaver differs from existing project management tools.
Through an iterative process, it enables the critical interfaces and information flows between activities to be streamlined in all processes that constitute the project and its related supply chain.
"Users of PlanWeaver are trained to help map out project delivery processes in terms of information flows and dependencies.
With the support of the software and through iterative steps, they can then streamline the whole process so that it becomes more efficient, realistic and manageable," said Cooper.
PlanWeaver has already been used with significant results in several major projects.
It is not confined to one industry and may be applied wherever large and complex projects or processes are prevalent including automotive, aerospace and defence, construction, civil engineering, petrochemical and pharmaceutical sectors.
Although it may be purchased for use on a local or wide area network (LAN/WAN) client-server system, BIW Technologies also offers PlanWeaver on an application service provider basis.
This encourages collaboration between individuals in companies regardless of their location, operating system, hardware or software, by making PlanWeaver accessible via a standard browser.
BIW Technologies has been delivering project-related collaboration services since the late 1990s.
Its initial core product, BIW Information Channel - a sophisticated web-based supply chain integration technology - was first employed on UK construction projects for Sainsburys.
BIW believes it is now the European leader in web-based collaboration systems for architecture, engineering and construction sectors, measured by numbers of users, usage and volume of data.
Its technologies are now attracting significant interest from government departments and agencies, utilities and other organisations with substantial capital asset projects.
With BIW Information Channel, each client is provided with a unique, project or programme-specific website created around a knowledge database.
With this, data can be made available securely to every team member - from the earliest concepts, through detailed design, buildability studies, pre-fabrication, construction, maintenance, operation and improvement to the eventual demolition or dismantling of the asset.
Clients include BAA, Sainsburys, BT, Capital One Bank, Manchester Airport, the Ministry of Defence, the Welsh Development Agency, the Wellcome Trust, Kajima and developers Garbe, Stanhope and Land Securities.
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