What Is Accruent Meridian?
Accruent Meridian is a purpose-built Engineering Document Management System (EDMS) that provides a secure, centralized source of truth for engineering drawings, technical documents, asset records, and compliance information.
Unlike a general-purpose document management platform, Meridian is designed specifically for engineering environments. It understands the relationships between documents, CAD drawings, equipment, and physical assets, while maintaining rigorous version control and auditability.
SolidCAD helps mining, oil and gas, and utility organizations across Canada implement Meridian around their existing engineering, maintenance, and operational workflows, ensuring the right people can access accurate, approved information when and where they need it.
Why Engineering Document Control Matters
Meridian helps engineering, maintenance, operations, and project teams manage technical information throughout the complete asset lifecycle—from design and construction through commissioning, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.
Unlike a general-purpose document management platform, Meridian is designed specifically for engineering environments. It understands the relationships between documents, CAD drawings, equipment, and physical assets while maintaining rigorous version control and auditability.
With Meridian, your organization can:
- Establish a single source of truth for engineering information
- Ensure employees and contractors use current, approved documents
- Control engineering changes, reviews, approvals, and releases
- Maintain complete version histories and audit trails
- Connect documents and drawings to equipment and asset records
- Improve collaboration between engineering, maintenance, and operations
- Strengthen regulatory compliance and operational readiness
- Reduce the cost and complexity of project information handover
Meridian for Asset-Intensive Industries
Meridian for Mining and Metals
Mining operations generate enormous volumes of technical information across geographically dispersed sites, processing facilities, mobile equipment, and supporting infrastructure. When drawings and records are stored across shared drives, local systems, paper archives, and contractor platforms, teams can struggle to determine which information is complete and current.
Meridian centralizes engineering information and applies consistent document-control processes across the organization.
Key applications in mining
- Manage processing-plant drawings, equipment files, and technical specifications
- Control P&IDs, electrical diagrams, mechanical drawings, and site plans
- Coordinate brownfield expansions and sustaining capital projects
- Provide maintenance teams with access to approved as-built information
- Standardize documentation across mines, mills, and remote facilities
- Manage contractor submissions, reviews, approvals, and handovers
- Preserve engineering knowledge throughout the life of the operation
Business impact
Mining organizations can reduce time spent searching for documents, improve maintenance planning, strengthen change control, and provide teams with more reliable information for making safety-critical decisions.
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Meridian for Oil and Gas
Oil and gas facilities depend on accurate technical information to support safe operations, maintenance, regulatory compliance, and management of change. A single outdated P&ID, equipment drawing, or operating document can delay work and introduce unnecessary risk.
Meridian gives engineering and operations teams controlled access to current information across upstream, midstream, and downstream environments.
Key applications in oil and gas
- Control P&IDs, process flow diagrams, and instrumentation documentation
- Manage engineering changes and approval workflows
- Maintain documentation for pipelines, terminals, plants, and field assets
- Connect drawings and technical records with associated equipment
- Support maintenance, shutdown, turnaround, and inspection activities
- Collaborate securely with EPC firms, contractors, and suppliers
- Maintain traceable records for audits and regulatory reviews
- Improve the completeness and accuracy of project handovers
Business impact
Oil and gas organizations can strengthen information governance, reduce document-retrieval time, support safer field execution, and maintain a reliable engineering record throughout the asset lifecycle.
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Meridian for Utilities
Utilities manage extensive networks of generation, transmission, distribution, treatment, and service infrastructure. Engineering information must remain accurate and accessible even as assets are upgraded, replaced, or maintained over decades.
Meridian helps electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities manage this information within a structured and auditable engineering document environment.
Key applications for utilities
- Manage substation, generation, transmission, and distribution drawings
- Control water and wastewater facility documentation
- Maintain accurate electrical schematics, network plans, and asset records
- Support infrastructure upgrades and capital improvement programs
- Give field and maintenance teams access to current technical information
- Standardize document processes across departments and service territories
- Manage engineering changes and regulatory documentation
- Improve contractor collaboration and final project handover
Business impact
Utilities can improve document accuracy, reduce operational risk, accelerate maintenance response, and help ensure infrastructure teams are working from trusted information.
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One Controlled Source of Engineering Truth
Engineering Document Control
Manage drawings, technical files, revisions, metadata, approvals, and release processes within a structured environment. Meridian records every change, helping teams maintain accuracy and accountability.
Engineering Change Management
Configure workflows that reflect your organization’s review and approval processes. Meridian helps prevent unauthorized changes and ensures new revisions are properly evaluated before release.
CAD and Engineering App Integration
Meridian supports CAD-centric engineering environments and integrates with commonly used platforms, including AutoCAD, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Revit, and other engineering applications.
Maintenance and Operations Access
Connect engineering information with maintenance and asset-management workflows so technicians can retrieve current documentation when planning or completing work.
Contractor Collaboration and Handover
Provide controlled access to external engineering firms, contractors, and suppliers. Track document exchanges and identify missing or inconsistent information before final handover.
Compliance and Auditability
Maintain controlled revision histories, configurable workflows, access permissions, and complete audit trails to support internal governance and regulatory requirements.
Cloud or On-Premise Deployment
Meridian can support cloud-based and on-premise deployment strategies. SolidCAD can help evaluate the right approach based on your security, infrastructure, integration, and operational requirements.
Meridian Industry Use Cases
This section can function as a growing resource library with filterable cards for Mining, Oil & Gas, and Utilities.
Mining: Processing Plant Expansion
Challenge: Engineering teams and external contractors are producing hundreds of interrelated drawings during a brownfield expansion.
Meridian application: Centralize project documentation, manage parallel revisions, control approval workflows, and validate information before operational handover.
Potential outcome: Fewer version conflicts, better contractor coordination, and a more complete set of approved as-built records.
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Oil & Gas: Management of Change
Challenge: Changes to operating equipment require controlled updates across P&IDs, procedures, specifications, and maintenance records.
Meridian application: Route affected documents through defined review and approval workflows while maintaining a complete record of every revision.
Potential outcome: Greater traceability, more consistent change management, and faster access to approved operating information.
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Utilities: Capital Project Handover
Challenge: Project documentation arrives from multiple contractors in inconsistent formats, with missing metadata or incomplete asset relationships.
Meridian application: Standardize document submissions, identify missing information, and transfer validated engineering records into operations.
Potential outcome: Faster project closeout, lower handover costs, and more reliable information for maintenance teams.
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Why Implement Meridian with SolidCAD?
Selecting an EDMS is only one part of establishing effective engineering information management. The system must also reflect your document structures, approval processes, integrations, security requirements, and operational realities.
As an authorized Accruent partner in Canada, SolidCAD provides:
- EDMS strategy and requirements assessment
- Meridian implementation and configuration
- Engineering workflow and metadata design
- Document and drawing migration
- CAD, EAM, and enterprise-system integration
- User training and adoption support
- Bilingual English and French services
- Ongoing technical support and system optimization
Our specialists work with your engineering, IT, maintenance, and project teams to configure Meridian around the way your organization manages its assets—not the other way around.
Meridian FAQ
What is Accruent Meridian?
Accruent Meridian is an Engineering Document Management System designed to control engineering drawings, technical documents, asset records, and associated workflows throughout the asset lifecycle.
How is Meridian different from SharePoint or a general document platform?
General document platforms can store and share files, but Meridian is purpose-built for engineering information, with version control, CAD integration, engineering change workflows, document-to-asset relationships, and detailed audit trails.
Which industries use Meridian?
Meridian is particularly suited to asset-intensive and regulated industries, including mining and metals, oil and gas, utilities, manufacturing, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and infrastructure.
Can Meridian support remote sites and multi-location operations?
Yes. Meridian can centralize engineering information across facilities, departments, and geographic locations while controlling what employees, contractors, and project partners can access.
Does Meridian integrate with maintenance systems?
Meridian can connect engineering information with leading Enterprise Asset Management and maintenance platforms, helping teams access the drawings and documentation tied to assets and work activities.
Can contractors collaborate through Meridian?
Yes. Meridian supports controlled document exchanges with engineering firms, contractors, and suppliers while preserving access controls, revision histories, and auditability.
Is Meridian available in the cloud?
Yes. Meridian is available through cloud and on-premise deployment models. SolidCAD can help determine which architecture best fits your operational, security, and integration requirements.