Standards and Practices

Professionals in the chemical, energy and life sciences sectors typically participate in professional associations that offer industry-focused standards, guidelines, and best practices for member use.

Gateway has developed a user-friendly Standards and Practices solution on the Microsoft 365 platform that is capable of initiating and managing this complex business process.

• A key feature of FACILEX® Standards solution is the representation of the business process using a lifecycle. The baseline configuration provides an out-of-the-box collaboration process.
• FACILEX® SD provides a powerful and intuitive initiation process that manages the collection of the Standards specific attributes.
• FACILEX® SD is configured to represent the Standards content structure in drop down menus that rapidly allow the initiator to define a discipline or activity  where the standard applies.

Any numbering scheme can be supported. FACILEX® uses standard SharePoint lists that can be easily configured for additional attributes such as text, numbers, dates or Boolean logic.

FACILEX® SD delivers efficiency to the process by reducing the amount of work required to track all of the content, comments and markups that are generated.

FACILEX® allows the project owner to select people and groups to participate in the development or edit of a Standard or Practice.

FACILEX® automatically generates all the standard action items for the standard lifecycle selected and notifies individuals and groups of their assignments by email and on the SD Participants Portal. Additional action items can be added or open action items can be edited or deleted by any authorized user.

FACILEX® uses SharePoint for all aspects of electronic document management including: access, version and revision control. Each Standard has a comprehensive folder structure to store supporting documentation and work-in-progress documentation.

The baseline configuration comes with several standard reports and custom reports are easily configured. Standard reports can be rapidly printed or exported to graphical reporting tools such as Power BI, Excel and third party products such as a Tableau.