Oniqua launch web-based Standards Dictionary for asset-intensive industries.
Online, September 2, 2009 (Newswire.com) - Oniqua is the custodian of the world's leading material and catalog standards Dictionaries used by the likes of BHP Billiton, Vale Mining, Amcor Fibre Packaging, Energy Australia amongst many other asset-intensive industry clients.
With innovative and fast keyword search functionality and supporting images, Oniqua Standards Dictionary (OSD) provides item names for over 40,000 materials together with associated codes, abbreviations and units of measure. Using this resource, materials cataloguers ensure that material master descriptions are consistently created to rigorous and consistent standards.
The OSD taxonomy owes its heritage to the Auslang standards (which Oniqua purchased in 2004) - a widely acclaimed implementation of NATO cataloging principles which has been refined over more than twenty years to meet the needs of asset-intensive industries.
OSD is widely used in engineering systems for associated parts lists, bills of materials and preventative maintenance plans, synchronization with purchasing and materials management functionality. This enables an organization to reduce plant failures resulting from incorrect parts ordered, reduce purchasing cost and supplier delivery errors, improve user efficiencies and ultimately benefit from Inventory savings through elimination of duplicates and variety reduction.
Currently there are more than 250 organizations using OSD or one of its subsets as a naming standard within their inventory information systems. They include organizations in the United States, Arab Emirates, Thailand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia and are represented across a diverse range of industries. The web-based OSD is delivered on an annual subscription basis under the "software as a Service" model. Clients can realize all the benefits of the former disk based application with the enhancements of fast, accurate searches, regular upgrades and enhancements; and additional catalogue items added on a regular basis.
For more details on Oniqua Standards Dictionary visit www.oniqua.com
About Oniqua Enterprise Analytics:
Headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, and with offices in North America, Africa and Asia, Oniqua Pty Ltd (www.oniqua.com) provides best-in-class Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions that improve the operational efficiencies and business performance of asset-intensive organizations. With advanced analytics capabilities, cross-functional integration, data cleansing services and seasoned industry expertise, Oniqua helps customers realize tangible benefits faster than any other APM provider. Oniqua's solutions are used by eight of the world's top 10 mining companies and two of the top 10 oil and gas companies, saving them millions of dollars each year in improved asset performance.
