The Italian Government has recently approved the construction of a National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy(CNAO),TERA(Foundation for Oncological Hadrontherapy)will lead the high technology projects of the CNAO,whose machine design is a spin-off to the medical world of the collaboration with CERN.The CERN EDMS(Engineering Data Management System)was initially launched at CERN to support the LHC project but has since become a general service available for all divisions and recognized experiments.As TERA is closely associated to CERN,TERA decided to profit from EDMS and to use it to support the ambitious Quality Assurance plan for the CNAO project.With this EDMS project TERA transfers know-how that has been developed in the HEP Community to a social sector of major importance that also has high-density information management needs.The features available in the CERN EDMS system provide the tools for managing the complete lifecycle of any technical document including a distributed approval process and a controlled distributed collaborative work environment using the World Wide Web.The system allows management of structures representing projects and relative documents including drawings within working contexts and with a customizable release procedure.TERA is customizing CERN EDMS to document the CNAO project activities,to ensure that the medical accelecrator and its auxiliary installations can be properly managed throughout its lifecycle,from design to maintenance and possibly dismantling.The technical performance requirements of EDMS are identical to those for LHC and CERN in general.We will describe what we have learned about how to set-up an EDMS project,and how it benefits a challenging initiative like the CNAO Project of the TERA collaboration.The knowledge managed by the system will facilitate later installations of similar centers (planned for Lyon and Stockholm)and will allow the reuse of experience gained in Italy.
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