It was the fall of 1996, 15 years after Lever converted from manual drafting to computer-aided design technology. By this time, the organization had produced tens of thousands of documents of its four manufacturing facilities, including a plant constructed in the 1980s, designed entirely using computer-aided design. The problem was that these drawings were scattered among various computer-aided design installations within the enterprise.
Unilever needed to efficiently manage and catalog its electronic documentation across various plant sites, a corporate engineering department and outside consulting firms. They turned to Bentley solutions.