Product Manager's Onboarding Primer

Welcome to Arridex Technologies

This primer exists to get you from zero domain knowledge to a working understanding of the industries, products, and priorities you are now responsible for, and to help you settle into your role properly with clear expectations for your first 90 days at Arridex Technologies. It is written for someone with no prior exposure to oil and gas, industrial inspection, or manufacturing. Nothing here assumes you already know the vocabulary.

How to use this

This is a reference wiki, not a document to read once and file away. Each page stands on its own, and the sidebar on the left is always available so you can jump to whatever you need. Terms you have most likely not seen before are underlined with a dotted line; the first time a term appears on a page, it links to its full definition in the Glossary.

That said, if this is your first time here, we recommend working through the pages in order once, since later pages assume you already have the grounding built in earlier ones.

Suggested reading order

  1. Arridex at a Glance

    What Arridex is, who it serves, and how the company is structured. Read this first, everything else sits inside this frame.

  2. Asset Integrity Domain

    The oil and gas, maritime, defence, and aerospace world: what an asset is, what can go wrong with it, and how inspection keeps it safe.

  3. Velidon

    The product that Arridex builds for asset integrity operations, and the one closest to your day-to-day remit.

  4. Additive Manufacturing Domain

    A second, unrelated industrial world: how a modern manufacturing factory that 3D-prints (additively manufactures) industrial parts actually runs.

  5. ADAM OS

    The software platform Arridex has built to run that factory, and the standardisation work now in front of you.

  6. EDGE ERP and POP

    The two internal platforms that run the business itself: an ERP for operations, and a SharePoint-based process and compliance layer.

  7. Compliance Roadmap

    Why ISO 27001 and SOC2 matter here, and what each one actually requires.

  8. Portfolio Logic

    How the four products fit together as one software portfolio, and why one team builds all of them.

  9. 90-Day Priority Actions

    What you are actually expected to do in your first quarter, for the portfolio as a whole and for each product individually.

The wiki at a glance

01 Arridex at a Glance

Company, sectors, and org structure.

02 Glossary

Every acronym and term used across the primer, in one place.

03 Asset Integrity Domain

Assets, inspection, NDT, RBI, and how a campaign actually runs.

04 Velidon

Arridex's asset integrity management system.

05 Additive Manufacturing Domain

AM fundamentals and how an AM factory operates.

06 ADAM OS

The operating platform behind the Omnifactory.

07 EDGE ERP

The internal enterprise resource planning system.

08 POP

The SharePoint-based process and compliance platform.

09 Compliance Roadmap

ISO 27001 and SOC2, and why both matter commercially.

10 Portfolio Logic

Why one team owns Velidon, ADAM OS, EDGE, and POP.

11 90-Day Priority Actions

Your first quarter, mapped out by platform.