Document Control management still seems to be an understated service at present day, even in large busy companies. 
Especially in the current situation with resources and employment boom, companies are constantly looking for ways in maximising productivity and efficiency whilst minimising cost and time. However, many companies are not informed in regards of how Document Control management is one of the best solutions they can adopt in achieving this. 
In a nut shell, Document Control management manages all documents of a company’s and it’s corresponding through a secure, online document management and web collaboration system such as Aconex, Project centre, QTrack etc. Gone are days of inconvenient, inefficiency, costly and time consuming of documents handling. It is even unnecessary to keep hard copies and physical filing which take up much more rooms.  
By using collaborative document management systems all users are able to get access to any documents, wherever they are in the world. The key for this system to work at its full potential is for all users to communicate through the system when dealing with everything such as emails, documents, procedures, contracts, drawings, etc. 

In summary, if all users stick to this rule and use the systems like how they’re trained, all users and companies will benefit from this and wouldn’t have it any other way.

As we all gear up for another busy new year fueled by the rampaging beast called the “boom”, LDC hopes that you have been able to reflect on what was a challenging year for many, and thought out appropriate strategies for the begining of this year.

LDC has been able to recently add new Document Control staff, with most of them ready for action during January 2008.

We suspect that finding appropriate professional personal for engineering and construction projects this year will be as hard, if not harder than last year. The Western Australian Government has recently approached the Federal Government to mitigate the ridiculously long times taking to process 457 Visa’s. We won’t wait with baited breath on things being improved that much.

WA have indicated that it will need 400,000 extra skilled workers over the next ten years (unpreceedented population growth). We assume their figures are sound projections, and if true will mean the pressure on finding resources to run projects (new or maintenance) will be be huge.