Union Electric selects Alpharel for Callaway Nuclear.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 1995--Alpharel (NASDAQ/NMS:AREL AREL Acute Reference Exposure Level (EPA) ), a principal supplier of enterprise-wide imaging application software, Thursday announced that it has signed a contract with Union Electric to image-enable the Callaway Nuclear Plant's current software applications. The decision follows a feasibility study "A Feasibility Study" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 13 April, 1964, during the first season. It was remade in 1997 as part of the revived The Outer Limits series with a minor title change. by Callaway determining that imaging would benefit the plant's overall information system and document management plan. The Callaway Nuclear Plant, near Fulton, Mo., is a single-unit, 1,250-Mw station providing electrical generation to Union Electric servicing areas of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. Plant operations require access to approximately 2 million documents stored on microfilm, 750,000 pages of documents in paper format, and 110,000 drawings on aperture cards. Between 20 and 25 percent of all documents are computer-generated, thus candidates for direct electronic capture. Documents are distributed to on-site employees, to the Nuclear Division Corporate offices in St. Louis, to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), an independent U.S. government commission, created by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 and charged with licensing and regulating civilian use of nuclear energy to protect the public and the environment. (NRC NRC abbr. 1. National Research Council 2. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Noun 1. NRC - an independent federal agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants ) and other designated agencies. "An electronic document management and distribution system is ideal for the highly regulated and competitive nuclear power industry," said a Callaway spokesman. "Alpharel will support the image-enabling of the plant's existing software applications, which reference a wide variety of documents, and make the documents available at the `touch of a key' at the desktop." The initial phase includes Alpharel's Enabler c/s with scan, fax, view, markup and print capabilities. The data will be stored in an HP optical disc library Also called an "optical jukebox," it is an optical disk storage system that houses multiple disc platters. It is similar to a music jukebox, except that instead of "playing one tune," more than one drive can be used to read and write several discs simultaneously. , accessed through an IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. server from a variety of mainframe applications. Of interest is the imaging system's interface to the company's Work Control application, which is used to control plant maintenance and modification. Several software applications will be image-enabled in the future to include such processes as Records Retrieval, Engineering Design Change, Master Equipment List, Materials Control and others. "Alpharel's image-enabling solution is a low-risk, high-return- on-investment venture for a utility," said Stephen Gardner, Alpharel president and chief executive officer. "By allowing employees from many sites to access a central document vault through many different applications, the Callaway project will stand out as a benchmark for productivity and quality improvement." Ultimately, the entire 900-member staff of Callaway Nuclear Plant and approximately 35 employees at the Nuclear Division Corporate offices in St. Louis will have access to documents directly from dozens of existing mainframe software applications. With headquarters in San Diego, Alpharel is the primary supplier of open imaging software for enterprise-wide solutions. The company's client/server software components operate in many different environments, and support multiple communication architectures such as Ethernet and Token Ring on a variety of platforms including Sun, HP, IBM, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , DG, DEC VAX (Virtual Address eXtension) A venerable family of 32-bit computers from HP (via Digital and Compaq) introduced in 1977 with the VAX-11/780. VAX models ranged from desktop units to mainframes all running the same VMS operating system, and VAXes could emulate PDP models , Macintosh and PC. Client operating environments include X Window OSF/Motif, Microsoft Windows and Apple System 7. Alpharel's software products easily integrate with customers' existing applications, providing departmental or corporate-wide document management. CONTACT: Alpharel, San Diego Stephen P. Gardner or John Low, 619/625-3000 |
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