Products – Neulogix Solutions

KNEXIT®

Integrated Data Environment (IDE)

for the Enterprise

Information enhanced with graphical relational intelligence
Seamless navigation of information across application boundaries
Information reconciliation across application boundaries
Real-time impact monitoring and traceability of information under change
Institutional knowledge capture and retention

Operational Excellence through Information Integrity across Boundaries

Large capital projects and operating facilities currently give up millions of dollars a year as a cost of doing business due to worker inefficiencies in finding reliable information. Finding requirements, drawings, equipment specs, procurement documents, and QA records related to a specific equipment item becomes a tedious process needing users to manually bridge their searches across multiple systems and have a deep knowledge of traceability. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) (https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002003126) estimated that going to a data-centric model with traceability would save each currently operating nuclear power plant about $80M over 20 years. Multiple industry research sources suggest that a good portion (anywhere from 10%-30%) of an average knowledge worker’s time in large process plants is spent either looking for correct information or validating the information they have is up to date.

The reason for the inefficiency is that the total defining information set is inevitably dispersed across several specialized, disparate information systems (silos) that are owned and controlled by different groups. There is as yet no single software application on the market that can securely manage all of the large variety of information and media types to satisfy all groups across the life-cycle of these facilities. As a result, tracing licensing requirements, drawings, equipment specs, datasheets, purchase orders, and installation, maintenance and QA records requires specialized knowledge and access permissions for all users to search the many information systems. In addition, users have to verify the status and timeliness of the information gathered before using them.

KNEXIT® (pronounced Connects It) addresses this problem by presenting all interrelated information from disparate silo systems through an intuitive graphical user interface portal. It tracks information changes no matter where it occurs. It enhances meaning through relational context and verifies usability through consistency checks. And it does this with minimal impact to existing information systems and work processes!

The overall solution through KNEXIT® to providing efficient information access is

low risk - KNEXIT® is an ‘overlay application’ that does not replace or disrupt the current use of any existing application.
low cost - it does not disrupt or modify the company’s existing business work processes.
implemented quickly and seamlessly - it does not require a disruptive transition in company work processes, extensive training or data migration to go-live.
comprehensive - it provides the user with contextual access to a wide variety of information with logical interlinkages including
- project information such as requirements, codes & standards, assumptions, document records
- engineering information such as design data/specs (equipment, instrumentation, electrical, piping, vessels, etc.), drawings, calculations
- procurement information such as purchase orders, vendor documents, procurement specifications
- QA records such as receipt verifications, condition reports, weld records
- maintenance information such as assets, locations, warehouses