OpenText Management of Change

Manage change. Manage process safety. Manage risk.

In organizations that process hazardous materials (e.g. the energy and chemical markets), it is particularly critical to comply with safety and environmental regulations and manage change within their facilities. Management of Change (MOC) is one of the more difficult processes in a plant in terms of downtime, outages, resource, and risks regarding exposure to fines, lawsuits and negative publicity. These risks increase as activities and man-hours increase and generations of knowledgeable employees retire.

OpenText Management of Change (formerly Livelink ECM - Management of Change) helps manage a compliant and documented process for facility change to reduce risk, increase efficiency, safety and reliability, and minimize environmental impact. Through document management and business process automation, it manages all the stages of an MOC lifecycle and related processes and documents, from single-screen initiation to final records management.

Benefits

  • Simplifies and expedites the MOC process
  • Manages the full lifecycle, from initiation to records management
  • Reduces the administrative burden and increases transparency
  • Easily integrates with other applications

Features

The following features are some of the key capabilities of OpenText Management of Change:

  • State-based system provides control and flexibility
  • Easily accessed through any Web browser
  • Scaleable to support facilities and projects across the enterprise, ensuring consistent system availability
  • Complies with OSHA Regulation 29CFR1910.119 and EPA RMP 40 CFR Part 68.75, which govern the process of how changes to facilities should be managed
  • Customizable and able to integrate with other enterprise systems (ERP, contract management, purchasing, maintenance, asset management, training, CAD, etc.)
  • Asset-based data structures enable easy classification of MOCs, Incidents, and Issues and automatically assigned approvers and work items
  • Smart question sets help assess risk and shape the lifecycle of the MOC
  • Developed in consultation with the Gateway Group, a professional services firm that specializes in analyzing and optimizing MOC processes