Westinghouse Savannah River Company Goes Live With Indus International's Indus Solution Series.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 1998-- Indus International's Indus Solution Series Successfully Implemented and in Production at Westinghouse Savannah River Savannah River River, eastern Georgia, U.S. Formed by the confluence of the Tugaloo and Seneca rivers at Hartwell Dam, it flows southeast to form the boundary between Georgia and South Carolina. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Savannah after a course of 314 mi (505 km). Company in Just Four Months Indus International (Nasdaq:IINT), the world's leading provider of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM (1) (Enterprise Asset Management) The management and control of the information technology assets within the enterprise. The asset management repository includes a description of the asset as well as contract information pertaining to its acquisition. ) solutions, announced that the Indus Solution Series was successfully implemented and put into production on Oct. 26, 1998, at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site The Savannah River Site is a nuclear materials processing center in the United States state of South Carolina, located on land in Aiken, Allendale and Barwnell Counties adjacent to the Savannah River 25 miles from Augusta, Georgia. It is operated for the U.S. (SRS SRS, SRS-A see slow-reacting substance. ), a key defense industry complex. The contract for the Indus Solution Series was comprised of the PassPort Work Management System. This record-breaking project occurred in just slightly over four months from when Westinghouse Savannah River Company (WSRC WSRC Westinghouse Savannah River Company WSRC Women's Studies Research Center (Brandeis University) WSRC Wyoming Society for Respiratory Care ) received approval from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to procure the Indus Solution Series. Of particular note is that this implementation, which was based on INDUS' ABACUS Implementation Methodology, also included certification and first-time delivery of PassPort on a SUN Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Server. While the DOE provides oversight of operations at Savannah River Site, WSRC is the SRS Management and Operating Contractor responsible for operating and maintaining the site. The Savannah River Site is located near Aiken, S.C., and Augusta, Ga., and encompasses 314 square miles, employs approximately 14,300 people and includes 32 major facilities and a large equipment inventory supported by extensive maintenance programs. These programs govern shutdown reactor, chemical process separations, defense and waste management, coal-fired power plants, machine shops and general facilities maintenance activities. Charles R. Campbell, manager, maintenance department, who oversees the site maintenance programs for WSRC, stated: "After successfully reengineering the Savannah River Site's maintenance programs, the first implementation step was to replace the existing computerized maintenance management system Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is also known as Enterprise Asset Management. A CMMS software package maintains a computer database of information about an organization’s maintenance operations. . "PassPort was selected as the system of choice based on benchmarking of other government and commercial user organizations, and especially for the depth and breadth of its nuclear industry-related functionality. The new PassPort Work Management System will facilitate the implementation of all our planned maintenance program related improvements." As C.M. (Jack) Hammond, WSRC vice president and general manager, Technical Services Division, put it: "I know (Savannah River) site maintenance organizations ... have dreamed and fought for years to get a new computerized maintenance management system. This (recent) accomplishment of going online in Tritium tritium (trĭt`ēəm), radioactive isotope of hydrogen with mass number 3. The tritium nucleus, called a triton, contains one proton and two neutrons. It has a half-life of 12.5 years and decays by beta-particle emission. with PassPort is indeed a major milestone for the site." This initial Indus Solution Series rollout was focused as a 400-user pilot project. Approximately 6,000 users are projected at the end of the site-wide rollout by October 1999. Implementation of other related Indus application solutions are slated to begin in early 1999 to support site maintenance, radiological work management and personnel qualification functions. About Indus International Indus International is the largest provider of Enterprise Asset Management solutions in the world. The Indus Solution Series of products and services enables its customers to reduce cost, increase capacity, ensure regulatory compliance and improve their overall return-on-investment and competitiveness. Indus' Solution Series includes unique capabilities for capital intensive industries such as utilities, natural resources, telecommunications, process manufacturing The manufacturing industry that uses process control systems. See process control. , and the public sector. Headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , the company provides software and services to over 300,000 users in more than 40 countries. Indus operates Customer Solution Centers in San Francisco, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Argentina, Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (ä`b  thä`bē, zä–, dä–), Arab. Abu Zabi, sheikhdom (1995 pop. 928,360), c. and Australia. Indus International has partnered with leading providers of software and services, such as Oracle and PeopleSoft, giving our customers an integrated and flexible solution. Visit Indus International's Web site at http://www.indusworld.com.
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