The open architecture of the Meridian can integrate into almost any maintenance management system. The maintenance management system can be either web-based (and be integrated similar to Maximo) or Windows-based. In either case, the integration is done at the level of the user interface. Meridian presents its user interface as a web page. To integrate with any maintenance management system, this web page should be available in the user interface of the maintenance management system, for example, from a hyperlink, a button, or by showing the page as part of the user interface of the maintenance management system itself. When showing Meridian Explorer, the maintenance management system should provide arguments that allow Meridian to determine what tag the user has currently selected.
For Meridian to show the correct related documents, relationships must be defined between the tag identifiers in the maintenance management system (for example, tags, location numbers, and so on) and documents in Meridian Explorer. These relationships can be configured in Meridian between any arguments supplied by the maintenance management system and properties in Meridian Explorer repository. The arguments will usually be unique identifiers, but may also be other properties of the tag, or they may be identifiers or properties of related tags.
With good knowledge of the maintenance management system, integration with the Meridian can usually be achieved in several days.
