Many industries are required by law to maintain a permanent record of operations related activities. To eliminate much of the administrative burden associated with document management issues, the eSOMS AutoPrint module automates the process of creating, transmitting, and tracking critical operations documents from eSOMS to third party electronic document management systems.

AutoPrint interfaces with the following eSOMS modules for the transfer of documents:

• Configuration Control - procedures and deviation records
• Clearance - tagouts, sections and temporary lifts
• Operator Rounds - round sheets
• Action Tracking - tracking records
• Narrative Logs - log sheets
• Personnel Qualifications & Scheduling - watchbills

AutoPrint is triggered by a change in status of a document (e.g. clearance release, log turnover/approval,…). AutoPrint in conjunction with Adobe's Acrobat Distiller software is used to generate the electronic forms for each module's critical documents in PDF file format. An XML-based interface is used to provide detailed document tracking and content information to the electronic document management system software.

Fault-tolerant processing and auditing features are incorporated into AutoPrint to ensure that documents are transmitted and processed successfully by third-party systems.