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CASE STUDY: ANDRITZ HYDRO A success story 160 years in the making, available now, in a split second. Challenge
ANDRITZ HYDRO, the world’s leading supplier of hydro turbines, has done a lot of engineering over the years. So much so, they’ve amassed some 3,000,000+ engineering drawings to reckon with—some on parchment and others on microfiche. Efficiently managing digitized versions of important documents like these would be task enough for any digital asset management system, but ANDRITZ HYDRO’s requirements went further:
Product Edition: Cumulus Workgroup
Plug-ins and Add-ons Used:
No document search may take more than two seconds.
Web Publisher Pro (Canto)
Solution
Assets Managed by Cumulus:
Turning to Canto Cumulus, ANDRITZ HYDRO found a solution that not only meets the company’s speed requirements, it exceeds them—easily—returning search results in less than a second. This is good news for a company whose ever expanding archive is today only a fraction of the size it’s expected become.
TIFF G4 files: 350,000+ Catalogs: 14 Photos: 400+
Results and Benefits
• Digitized microfiche archives are instantly searchable from anywhere. • No longer limited by operating system performance and management constraints. • Unlimited Web access with no per-user fees. Damming the data deluge The development of a hydro turbine results in a veritable tsunami of data that must be collected and managed. No part of a turbine assembly goes undocumented, from the room-sized blades, down to the screws that keep it all together. Then there’s the documentation needed for operation and maintenance, all of which ANDRITZ HYDRO is required by law to maintain for 80 years.
It leaves the employees of ANDRITZ HYDRO virtually treading an ocean of information. Before Cumulus, ANDRITZ HYDRO relied on microfiche for data storage and retrieval. Though a much better option than hard-copy libraries—especially considering the millions of documents in play— searching microfiche archives was tedious and time consuming. And with more than 25,000 turbine installations worldwide—some more than 50 years old!—information requests could come from anywhere at any time. The time had come for ANDRITZ HYDRO to turn the tide on its data storage process—and not a moment too soon.
Supported by Canto Partner: SCS SOLID Computer AG (http://www.scssolid.ch)
Why Cumulus:
• Extremely fast file access that exceeded strict requirements • Easy installation without support or certifications required • Best price/performance ratio of all tested digital asset management systems • License-free cost for Web access • Long-term secure digital asset management. • Virtually unlimited data volumes
No life raft from the OS By the year 2000, the digitization of ANDRITZ HYDRO’s microfiche archive was underway, but the weight of the new digital data was starting to take its toll. The company’s computers became bogged down with file management duties they were never designed to do, as Michael Schulyok, manager of CAD and computer science at ANDRITZ HYDRO, explains. Microfiche archives became far too cumbersome to maintain and use. Cumulus offered a better way.
“When we opened folders to find files, we sat for up to five minutes in front of the PC and nothing moved!”
Canto, the Canto logo and Cumulus are registered trademarks of Canto. Other company and product names might be trademarks of their respective owners. GEN/mkCS-AndritzHydro/2009.11
Copyright ©2009 Canto GmbH. All rights reserved. www.canto.com
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CASE STUDY: ANDRITZ HYDRO
HYDRO. Finding a document requires a mere mouse click, not an information request. “With Cumulus it takes, at most, half a second and the stuff is there.” Manufacturing, maintenance and repair projects stay on schedule, because everyone knows where to find what they need—even when the documents they need are many decades old. And tomorrow?
(Left) Cumulus offers Native and Web clients that offer users instant access to any files they need, which has proven to be a much better option that the microfiche archives (right), which had became far too cumbersome to maintain and use.
Anyone who’s tried to manage hundreds of thousands of files on a PC knows Schulyok’s pain.
access for an unlimited number of Web users sealed the deal.
Swimming upstream for relief
“Unlimited Web access without additional license costs finally convinced us. Other systems charge a small fortune for such functionality.”
Like any group of talented engineers would do, ANDRITZ HYDRO tested and analyzed many DAM systems to determine which could best manage the company’s growing archives for the coming decades. Schulyok knew what he needed their DAM system to do, and he soon found out how many socalled “DAM solutions” weren’t up to the task. “Most systems could manage ten to twenty thousand files, but then things became difficult.” Twenty thousand files is some 2.98 million files less than ANDRITZ HYDRO knew it needed to ultimately manage, so the search continued until Cumulus was the last candidate standing. The impressive speed of the Cumulus search architecture appealed to the engineering sensibilities at ANDRITZ HYDRO, but license-free
Schulyok admits Cumulus is likely to evolve a bit in the company’s next 160 years, but he knows one thing for sure: no matter what, Cumulus 9, 10, 11 and beyond are never going to keep ANDRITZ HYDRO employees waiting more than a fraction of a second.
ROI so easy, even an engineer can do it Schulyok was able to install Cumulus himself, saving ANDRITZ HYDRO money that would have gone into the pockets of the installation teams of other DAM systems. He saved himself some time too, because Cumulus lets new users start managing files right out of the box—no multi-month debates on how metadata should be organized, and no lengthy certification classes just to become productive. “The Cumulus manuals are excellent. After three days, I had the system under control completely.”
Counting on Cumulus Today, all technicians, engineers, designers and workshop staff use Cumulus at ANDRITZ
For more information on how Canto Cumulus can benefit your organization, contact your local Canto partner, or contact Canto directly. In the U.S. +1 (415) 495-6545 In the E.U. +49 (0) 30 390 485 0 Everywhere [email protected]
About Canto & Cumulus Canto has been dedicated to helping customers fully utilize their digital assets since 1990. Canto Cumulus is a cross-platform solution that enables companies to easily organize, find, share and track their ever-increasing numbers of digital files, in any format. Canto’s worldwide network of certified developers offers an impressive assortment of plug-ins that enhance the Cumulus product line further. Learn more: www.canto.com
About SCS SOLID Computer SCS SOLID Computer AG is Canto distributor for Switzerland and Liechtenstein for more than 14 years. In Switzerland already run more than 1,000 Canto Cumulus Server Solutions. The company is a distributor since 1987, with service for more than 20 manufacturers. So far, more than 7,000 server solutions for approximately 400,000 clients are realized with SCS SOLID-products in Switzerland. Learn more: www.scssolid.ch
Canto, the Canto logo and Cumulus are registered trademarks of Canto. Other company and product names might be trademarks of their respective owners. GEN/mkCS-AndritzHydro/2009.11
Copyright ©2009 Canto GmbH. All rights reserved. www.canto.com
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ANDRITZ HYDRO, the world’s leading supplier of hydro turbines, has done a lot of engineering over the years. So much so, they’ve amassed some 3,000,000+ engineering drawings to reckon with—some on parchment and others on microfiche. Efficiently managing digitized versions of important documents like these would be task enough for any digital asset management system, but ANDRITZ HYDRO’s requirements went further:
Product Edition: Cumulus Workgroup
Plug-ins and Add-ons Used:
No document search may take more than two seconds.
Web Publisher Pro (Canto)
Solution
Assets Managed by Cumulus:
Turning to Canto Cumulus, ANDRITZ HYDRO found a solution that not only meets the company’s speed requirements, it exceeds them—easily—returning search results in less than a second. This is good news for a company whose ever expanding archive is today only a fraction of the size it’s expected become.
TIFF G4 files: 350,000+ Catalogs: 14 Photos: 400+
Results and Benefits
• Digitized microfiche archives are instantly searchable from anywhere. • No longer limited by operating system performance and management constraints. • Unlimited Web access with no per-user fees. Damming the data deluge The development of a hydro turbine results in a veritable tsunami of data that must be collected and managed. No part of a turbine assembly goes undocumented, from the room-sized blades, down to the screws that keep it all together. Then there’s the documentation needed for operation and maintenance, all of which ANDRITZ HYDRO is required by law to maintain for 80 years.
It leaves the employees of ANDRITZ HYDRO virtually treading an ocean of information. Before Cumulus, ANDRITZ HYDRO relied on microfiche for data storage and retrieval. Though a much better option than hard-copy libraries—especially considering the millions of documents in play— searching microfiche archives was tedious and time consuming. And with more than 25,000 turbine installations worldwide—some more than 50 years old!—information requests could come from anywhere at any time. The time had come for ANDRITZ HYDRO to turn the tide on its data storage process—and not a moment too soon.
Supported by Canto Partner: SCS SOLID Computer AG (http://www.scssolid.ch)
Why Cumulus:
• Extremely fast file access that exceeded strict requirements • Easy installation without support or certifications required • Best price/performance ratio of all tested digital asset management systems • License-free cost for Web access • Long-term secure digital asset management. • Virtually unlimited data volumes
No life raft from the OS By the year 2000, the digitization of ANDRITZ HYDRO’s microfiche archive was underway, but the weight of the new digital data was starting to take its toll. The company’s computers became bogged down with file management duties they were never designed to do, as Michael Schulyok, manager of CAD and computer science at ANDRITZ HYDRO, explains. Microfiche archives became far too cumbersome to maintain and use. Cumulus offered a better way.
“When we opened folders to find files, we sat for up to five minutes in front of the PC and nothing moved!”
Canto, the Canto logo and Cumulus are registered trademarks of Canto. Other company and product names might be trademarks of their respective owners. GEN/mkCS-AndritzHydro/2009.11
Copyright ©2009 Canto GmbH. All rights reserved. www.canto.com
Page 1 of 2
CASE STUDY: ANDRITZ HYDRO
HYDRO. Finding a document requires a mere mouse click, not an information request. “With Cumulus it takes, at most, half a second and the stuff is there.” Manufacturing, maintenance and repair projects stay on schedule, because everyone knows where to find what they need—even when the documents they need are many decades old. And tomorrow?
(Left) Cumulus offers Native and Web clients that offer users instant access to any files they need, which has proven to be a much better option that the microfiche archives (right), which had became far too cumbersome to maintain and use.
Anyone who’s tried to manage hundreds of thousands of files on a PC knows Schulyok’s pain.
access for an unlimited number of Web users sealed the deal.
Swimming upstream for relief
“Unlimited Web access without additional license costs finally convinced us. Other systems charge a small fortune for such functionality.”
Like any group of talented engineers would do, ANDRITZ HYDRO tested and analyzed many DAM systems to determine which could best manage the company’s growing archives for the coming decades. Schulyok knew what he needed their DAM system to do, and he soon found out how many socalled “DAM solutions” weren’t up to the task. “Most systems could manage ten to twenty thousand files, but then things became difficult.” Twenty thousand files is some 2.98 million files less than ANDRITZ HYDRO knew it needed to ultimately manage, so the search continued until Cumulus was the last candidate standing. The impressive speed of the Cumulus search architecture appealed to the engineering sensibilities at ANDRITZ HYDRO, but license-free
Schulyok admits Cumulus is likely to evolve a bit in the company’s next 160 years, but he knows one thing for sure: no matter what, Cumulus 9, 10, 11 and beyond are never going to keep ANDRITZ HYDRO employees waiting more than a fraction of a second.
ROI so easy, even an engineer can do it Schulyok was able to install Cumulus himself, saving ANDRITZ HYDRO money that would have gone into the pockets of the installation teams of other DAM systems. He saved himself some time too, because Cumulus lets new users start managing files right out of the box—no multi-month debates on how metadata should be organized, and no lengthy certification classes just to become productive. “The Cumulus manuals are excellent. After three days, I had the system under control completely.”
Counting on Cumulus Today, all technicians, engineers, designers and workshop staff use Cumulus at ANDRITZ
For more information on how Canto Cumulus can benefit your organization, contact your local Canto partner, or contact Canto directly. In the U.S. +1 (415) 495-6545 In the E.U. +49 (0) 30 390 485 0 Everywhere [email protected]
About Canto & Cumulus Canto has been dedicated to helping customers fully utilize their digital assets since 1990. Canto Cumulus is a cross-platform solution that enables companies to easily organize, find, share and track their ever-increasing numbers of digital files, in any format. Canto’s worldwide network of certified developers offers an impressive assortment of plug-ins that enhance the Cumulus product line further. Learn more: www.canto.com
About SCS SOLID Computer SCS SOLID Computer AG is Canto distributor for Switzerland and Liechtenstein for more than 14 years. In Switzerland already run more than 1,000 Canto Cumulus Server Solutions. The company is a distributor since 1987, with service for more than 20 manufacturers. So far, more than 7,000 server solutions for approximately 400,000 clients are realized with SCS SOLID-products in Switzerland. Learn more: www.scssolid.ch
Canto, the Canto logo and Cumulus are registered trademarks of Canto. Other company and product names might be trademarks of their respective owners. GEN/mkCS-AndritzHydro/2009.11
Copyright ©2009 Canto GmbH. All rights reserved. www.canto.com
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