Nedap’s AEOS Security Management Platform Enhances Security At Various Sites

Nedap’s fully integrated security management solution combines access control, video management and intrusion detection

Staying in control of what happens on an industrial site is essential to protect people, the planet and your profits. AEOS helps by highlighting risks and taking security management to a higher level.

The company’s work may involve machinery, chemicals or procedures that could present safety or security threats if not managed well. AEOS gives you a range of smart functionality to help you minimize risk, keep control and respond quickly if there is an incident. You’ll have the use of AEOS Contractor Management, Response to Expiration, Rule Engine, Security Levels, Workflow and much more – all designed to help you handle safety and security more effectively.

Streamline administration

 With several contractors entering your site each day, managing their authorisations can be time consuming – but it doesn’t need to be. AEOS offers a range of functionality to make the job easier and much more efficient. AEOS Contractor Management, for example, enables you to easily identify contractors and control their access. While AEOS Response to Expiration generates an alert if a contractor hasn’t been on your site for a set period and therefore needs to redo procedures. Adding AEOS Report Server means you automatically get a summary of this information for all contractors on a pre-set date.

And you can register on AEOS when a contractor has completed necessary procedures, making it easy to keep a detailed, up-to-date record of everyone entering your site.

Keep track and improve workflow

It can be very time consuming to manage the amount of procedures and paperwork contractors must complete before entering an industrial site. You need to keep on top of who needs to do what and who needs to approve it. In most companies this is still a manual, paper-based process, meaning it’s not always clear who needs to approve documents or whether it’s been done already. AEOS Workflow enables you to automate the process so it’s much more streamlined and procedures relating to authorisations are far easier to manage.

Keep a tight control

 If, like many industrial companies, you use contractors to maintain your site, you may have as many as 500 contractors on your premises. And every one has to register at reception before entering. AEOS Contractor Management enables your receptionists to assign personalized authorisations to each contractor and then issue them with a badge. This gives them access only to the departments and zones they need to access for their work, and only for a set period. AEOS also links every contractor to someone in a managerial position. So, even though contractors may be moving around your premises alone, your security manager can instantly see where every contractor is, as well as who’s responsible for each one.

Before issuing a badge, your receptionist can use AEOS to check when the contractor was last onsite, or produce a full list of all contractors who’ve not been on-site for a set period. If a contractor hasn’t visited for over six months, for example, they may be required to watch your safety film and read your code of conduct again before they can enter. When they’ve done this, it can be registered on AEOS and the contractor can be issued with an access badge.

Speed up approvals

Usually, you may not give contractors access to departments such as research and development. There may be times, however, when contractors need access to these departments to carry out maintenance work. AEOS enables efficient management of the procedures that need to be completed before your receptionist can grant access. If, for example, a contractor needs to sign a non-disclosure agreement, this can be registered on AEOS once it’s been done. AEOS then automatically sends an email to your security manager requesting access rights for the contractor. When your security manager has approved this, the contractor’s authorisation is automatically updated, allowing them immediate access to the research and development department for the time set.

Identify and manage risks

 As security and safety are so strongly connected, it’s vital you can easily identify and minimize any risks that could lead to an incident. And if there is an incident you need to be able to manage the situation quickly and effectively. AEOS is a powerful tool to help you do all of this. It allows you, for example, to instantly see who is where on your site. So if there is an incident you can check if there are sufficient health and safety officers in an area. And AEOS Security Levels allows you to quickly set in motion the procedures you’ve predefined to help you take control.

AEOS for all your security needs

 Whatever your company’s particular security requirements, AEOS will enable you to meet them. Whether you need access control, intrusion detection, video management, locker management or a combination of these functions, you manage everything via software on one platform. And with more than 150 software components to choose from, you can quickly and easily install security functionality whenever, wherever and however you need it.

Respond quickly to improve safety

If, for example, a machine explodes during maintenance work, AEOS enables you to instantly activate the predefined settings and procedures you’ve defined for this type of situation. You can easily control who’s allowed access to the incident area. And you can get a quick overview of where your health and safety officers are and direct them to where they’re needed. AEOS will also immediately block any zones that people shouldn’t enter so everyone’s led to the right assembly area, and you can quickly identify if anyone’s missing and take appropriate action.

Nedap Security Management

Nedap designs solutions to fit customers’ needs rather than offering predefined systems. That’s why our product development is determined not by technology, but by the way it’s used every day. This customer-focused approach lead us to develop the first software-based security management platform – AEOS. It’s the only fully integrated security management solution that combines access control, video management and intrusion detection on one platform. AEOS is more flexible, future-proof and easier to use than any other security solution. World-renowned companies use it more than 37 million times a day for security and building management and controlling people flow.