Unplanned downtime is the stuff of nightmares for industrial plant management. Process upsets, wasted product, potentially hazardous events, high blood pressure…all potential side effects of unplanned downtime. Add in the costs of remediation — flared product, media management, overtime pay, hot shot fees, increased safety — unplanned downtime costs can easily run past the million-dollar […]

Why can you track your fast-food pizza, but not see everything in your plant? Or where your rideshare driver is, but not your work progress until the end of the day?  Despite investments in ERP and digital control systems, in the era of Industry 4.0 we still have a gap between our plant goals and […]

Digital workflows automate the routing of documents to users and groups per your current business processes of your organization. A digital transformation effort at your facility that incorporates digital workflows ensures your business processes procedures are followed and is shown to improve team productivity, business process consistency, and communication.  Here are some of the key benefits of automated digital workflows:  Digital documents are easily searchable and adaptable to […]

Picture the following scenario. Your car speedometer only shows your speed every ten minutes, your fuel meter only updates twice a week, and you can only see out of your windshield 50% of the time. Yes, you would still be able to drive your car, but you would also unknowingly go over the speed limit, […]

In the world of disaster recovery and preparedness, we have come across many stories related to accidents caused by chemicals, hurricanes, and equipment failures. These situations are made worse by insufficient and inadequate business continuity and disaster recovery plans. When disasters happen, you need a system that provides visibility into scoping, planning, risk assessment, emergency […]

In our June blog post, we discussed the realities of digitization and how, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it will continue to be part of the “new normal” of the Industry 4.0 revolution. We also highlighted four practical steps companies can take to prepare themselves sooner rather than later. Suggestion No. 1—“Don’t boil the ocean, start with […]

After months of customer feedback and planning, we enhanced our field mobility product with new features to digitize  and provide more visibility into your site. We renamed the product to “MobilOps FieldVision™” . Please check out the video for highlights!

If you asked me in January what my work week would look like in mid-June, I would have told you I would probably be sitting in a squeaky banquet room chair listening to another conference keynote on how plants and industrial facilities will soon be run from a mobile device. Today, like every other day […]

Using mobile devices like iPad and Android tablets along with audits and inspection software can improve the overall efficiency and productivity of any business entity. Companies responsible for audits and inspections of every kind are turning more and more to mobile devices to offer a level of visibility, compliance and remediation that no clipboard or paper-based inspection […]

Management of change is a best practice for controlling health, safety and environmental risks when an organization makes changes in their facilities, procedures, personnel, processes and manufacturing operations. MOC is a formal protocol required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) under its Process Safety Management standard. OSHA 1910.119(l)(1) sets the requirements for MOC as: […]