Safeguarding your organisation's engineering knowledge

Brix Foundation is a set of configurable software modules design for knowledge management solutions in the maritime, offshore and process industries.

Brix Explorer is the application that provides access to your business processes, project templates, business rules, and DNV Software product portfolio, as well as any third party service. It provides personalised views for different users or user groups.

Brix Project Manager provides a powerful mechanism for knowledge management through a common project space fo all project members. It enables project management (planning and follow-up) and supports project members with a working environment to execute their part of the work by providing detailed business process support through application integration, work description and a common document archive.

Using Brix Project Manager as your organisation's knowledge management system, ensures delivery of consistent best practices.

Brix Workflow Manager is a full-scale workflow system allowing you to define your business processes as templates. The templates contain information regarding activities or tasks, information flow, application integration, user roles, and security aspects. You can use process templates to create detailed activity schedules.

Each time you want to run a business process, a workflow is created based on its template. The system monitors and manages the running processes and updates project plans.

Brix Rule System is a full-scale rule system enabling knowledge such as business rules and design standards to be easily understood by engineers and designers. This industry knowledge can be shared among several applications. Brix Rule system allows rules to be changed from applications invoking the rule-engine, enabling “what-if” scenarios.

Brix Security provides an enterprise scale administration module, a flexible identity store, mechanisms for securing access to data as well as security providers for ASP.NET and Active Directory. Brix Security builds on security mechanisms provided by Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Internet Information Server.

Brix Document Service is used to integrate any third party document record and management system. If no such system is used, Brix Document Service provides basic document handling functionality such as search, retrieve, save, versioning, check in/out, and history.

Brix Product Model has three main aspects. Firstly, the product breakdown structure which involves all the physical aspects of an asset. Secondly, the different views of the product structure. Thirdly, support for monitor the condition of a structure. The product model is typically the target for maintenance planning, inspections, condition monitoring, rule check, trend analysis and knowledge transfer.

Assessing and improving Brix is used by the Project Management Institute™ (PMI) in a solution that enables PMI-certified consultants or assessors to assess and improve any project based on PMI’s best practices.

Brix Observation and Measurement. The observation and measurement module is typically used to deliver support for monitoring the condition of an asset. The observed condition of the asset is used as input to maintenance analysis, maintenance execution, compliance calculations, inspection planning, and condition reports. The observation and measurement capability store condition history enabling trends analysis.