Working in collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry, Comos PQM (Project Quality Management) was developed as a new and innovative concept for the merging of document and project management. The system supports the planner and the initial commissioning engineer through the use of new software methods and extended test mechanisms during the initial commissioning phase. Industrial areas that need to be documented in a GMP-compliant way are supported in their quality assurance process by the administration and automatic forwarding of the documents in the separate QA phases.

Comos PQM makes it possible to set up a central plant- and project-related document administration system. The close linking of Comos PQM with the engineering and servicing applications from Comos creates a uniform view of the entire technical documentation of the plant or unit. It is precisely in the handling of large projects in international plant construction where it is important to be able to access current and documents at any time.

Key Benefits

• The system “knows” who which checked which document in or out, and hence the transparency of the editing state of the project is considerably increased, since it is always the most recently released versions that is made available and so duplicate work is avoided
• The increased quality of the data and documents shorten the times required to complete projects and thus improve the “time to market” situation
• Documents can be administered in an object- and storage-related way, where each user is given his or her own specific view, thus reducing search times and enabling the working time to be used more efficiently
• Comos^® PQM allows an automated handover all the way from erection to operation of the plant or unit
• The use of meeting management also increases the degree of transparency within the management of the project
• Workflow administration for documents.